(07-22-2015 10:55 PM)murrdcu Wrote: Jr. Some one mentioned an idea that if conferences grew to 16 schools, that one school could play everyone in the conference if they played 3 yearly opponents and rotate the remaining 12 schools every other year with a 9 game conference schedule. I'm just curious, if the SEC invited OU and [insert school of choice] to expand to 16 with, who do you think the three yearly opponents would be for each school?
That's one of those ideas that sounds great until you start working out the logistics. I ask you how is that really any different than having the pod system. That's three games a year with a rotation among the rest? Even if you have one permanent rival in each of the 4 pods and rotated everyone else it's still the same.
I do think that 9 games is a given. I think 10 would be even better in that everyone would have 5 conference home games to sell and a patsy for homecoming, with one annual 00C game against a rival or a rotating schools.
I even like Dabo's idea of moving the Spring game to the third week of August and having it against a local FCS school and packaging the ticket to that game as the first in your season ticket book thereby giving every P5 7 home games. (1 preseason against the FCS, 12 against conference or other P5 opponents).
If Auburn had to pick three they would be Alabama, Georgia, and either Florida or Tennessee. I just think that picking three for everyone is going to be a nightmare.
I would much prefer this:
Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
Arkansas, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Miss State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Team #16, Texas A&M
You play 7 from your own division and rotate 3 from the other division a year (staggered). You still play everybody every three years.