(04-19-2015 01:56 PM)Hilltop75 Wrote:  Why not go to 15. The ACC is going to 3 pods of 5 teams
For football

CUSA. Three Pod

EAST
Wku
Marshall
Mtsu
Odu
Uncc.

SOUTH
Fiu
Fau
Usa.
Usm
LaTech

WEST
Unt
Rice
Utsa.
Utep.
Texas st.

Pods for football only. Two best
Teams play for football championship

In basketball even though you don't have divisions you still play your football pod teams home
And away and the other 10 teams

once. It makes for an
18 game basketball schedule.
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Texas State would be a duplicate market. Lamar or West Texas A&M would add a new Texas market. Beaumont and Amarillo are new markets. West Texas A&M used to be in the same conference with Tulsa in D1 back in the 1970's and 80's.

(04-21-2015 07:41 PM)USFRamenu Wrote:  The ACC is not going to "Pods", they're going to 4 Divisions of 5 each.

4 divisions of 6 each. Each of the P5 conferences then can include the very best of the rest from the G5 and FCS who can support it.

If the Big Ten went to 4 pods

west
Neb, Iowa, Minn, Wisc

South
NW, ILL, Pur , Indy

North
Mich, MSU, OSU

East
PSU, MD, Rut

4-team pods then play teams from 3-team pods 50% of time, and play teams from other 4-team pod 75% of time.

3-team pods play teams from 4-team pods 50% of the time, and play teams from other 3-team pod 100% of time.

you could do the same thing with the ACC, except you play all the others pods only 50-67% of the time.

if the ACC went to 4 pods

south
FSU, Miami, Clem, GT

east
UNC, NCSU, Duke, Wake

north
BC, Cuse, Pitt

west
Lou, VT, Va

3-team pods play the other 3-team pod 67% of the time, and plays teams from 4-team pods 50% of the time.

4-team pods play all other pods 50% of the time.

I forget who proposed this (sorry!)

3 permanent rivals. Play 5 teams this year, the other 5 next year.

(04-20-2015 12:07 AM)Ole Blue Wrote:  

(04-19-2015 07:05 PM)keebler645 Wrote:  

(04-19-2015 04:44 PM)Ole Blue Wrote:  We're not going to pods in the ACC...?

Swofford Says No

Yeah that's what I had heard. I'd be surprised if that pods deal actually happens.

I believe the ACC will keep two divisions as long as they stay at their current membership. But I do expect to see some change to accommodate the interests of the southern schools without doing serious damage to the interests of the northern schools.

IMO, the four southern schools will be treated differently from the other ten. I believe the northern ten will remain aligned, division-wise, as they are now. However, I can see the league alternating which two other teams are in their division. One year your division would include Florida State and Georgia Tech, and the next it would have Clemson and Miami.

Each of these southern pairs would have the teams in the other pair as their permanent cross division opponents in an 8 game league schedule.