1: Boise St, San Diego St, BYU, Air Force, Navy

2: Houston, SMU, Memphis, Louisville, Cincinnati

3: UConn, Rutgers, Temple, USF, UCF

Natural pairings that cut down on travel.

pod systems will never work.

Can we at least quit calling them "pods"? These are divisions. Just because there are more than 2 doesn't make it something new.

Until the NCAA allows a multi-round conference playoff, no more than 2 divisions should be set up.

I like this set-up:

Red: UConn, Rutgers, Temple, Navy, USF, SDSU, Houston
Blue: Louisville, Memphis, Cincinnati, BYU, UCF, Boise, SMU

Where the last three in each division have permanent crossovers: UCF-USF, Houston-SMU, Boise-SDSU. The rest rotate inter-divisional play.

That way all those that want to play each other every year can.

No more than 2 divisions and even at that the West is pretty strung out....ugly.

Well it assumes we're taking BYU *and* AFA. We're at 13 now and have publicly stated we're going to 14... so this probably won't happen.

But if for some reason we HAD to go to 15, and didn't want to go to 16, this might be an option. Say, if BYU and AFA both came to their senses. Instead of choosing, we could just do this. (and avoid taking a #16 we really didn't want)

If we did this, would it mean a 2-round playoff? 3 + a wildcard, and winners play a CCG?

You can only have 2 divisions by NCAA rule. Every team in each division must play a round robin with everyone else in thier division by NCAA rule. The reason the WAC-16 pods qualified was because 2 pods were combined each season to create a division with the remaining 2 pods forming the other division. The pods would rotate each year--always forming 2 divisions, but because the pods rotated, the divisions would be made up of different teams. This was done to give the schools more exposure to the schools in the other pods. This is just one of the reasons that the 28-32 team "Aliiance" never got off the ground---once a conference exceeds 24 teams there is no room on a schools schedule for anything but conference games..