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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-08-2017 05:45 PM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  
(11-07-2017 05:03 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-07-2017 04:22 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  What ultimately brought change to the BCS system was the all-SEC championship game a few years back. That's when the powers at be started talking about a playoff. Now that we've got a playoff, I can definitely see this nightmare scenario forcing yet more changes.

If 3 separate conferences are left out then I do think you'll see a push for a champs only event although I wouldn't be shocked to see an expansion either.

How might it speed up realignment? Well, somehow we've got to account for 8 Big 12 schools...maybe even all 10.

The wrinkle in that is if Notre Dame can make the playoff without being a conference champion then we have to see a major shift in order to force them to go full in with the ACC. A champs only event would do it, but can everyone agree?

What I'm getting at is this...if it's champs only then your odds of making the playoff are directly related to how strong your conference competition is. If only one can make it then that's certainly an incentive to choose a weaker conference. The stronger the conference(SEC) then the less likely you are to want to limit it to champs as it could limit your possibilities in a variety of regards.

And since everyone knows the Big 12 is on the way out then whoever is opposed to a champs-only model may have to do some wheeling and dealing with Big 12 members to get a more favorable situation. In essence, if the Big 12 is interested in voting champs only then the SEC might look at that prospect one of two ways....

1) They may find a way to protest the process if the Big 12 votes for a measure that quickens its own death. In other words, why should their vote be allowed to alter the system if they're not even going to be around to participate under the new rules.

2) Strike some sort of deal with Big 12 schools that might very well still result in a champs-only playoff, but somehow gives an edge to the SEC under a new set of rules.

I'm not really proposing a specific plan of action. Just musing how some of these things might be viewed.

This is a good point to raise. I suspect that the trade off would be ease of access vs payout. Obviously Texas and Oklahoma are worth more in either the Big 10 or SEC, but the easiest path to the final four might well be to the West.

Send Texa-homa to the PAC and they ar at 16.

The SEC could take T.C.U. for the DFW market and look at taking West Virginia/Iowa State/or Kansas. I would lean toward Kansas because it gives the West a breather in conference. If the Big 10 wanted to move to 16 with Iowa State and Kansas then great. The SEC could take WVU and call it a day. That's 8 and it's adios Big 12. The SEC adds two to the middle and upper middle. Neither the SEC or Big 10 gets Texas and Oklahoma so that's a stalemate that would be acceptable.

If however the Big 10 wanted Iowa State and Kansas for whatever reason, and WVU received interest from the ACC then maybe looking at USF or UCF in connection with T.C.U. would be the most natural way to end SEC expansion. Shore up DFW and pick up a Central to South Florida presence.

If it's between UCF and USF for you guys then I think UCF may be better in the long run, especially since Orlando is not as encumbered by pro sports teams as Tampa. Also, the P4 settles in the central Florida market in a big way.
I don't give it a high probability, but if Texas and OU are off the market and TTU and OSU with them, and the SEC does want a physical presence in DFW then and only then does that kind of future growth move in another market area where we want a presence make any sense. I think the Gulf would make the better future market for the SEC but UCF as you point out does have a larger fan base and doesn't have an NFL franchise. It is also in Mouse Zone for exposure.
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-08-2017 07:51 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-08-2017 05:45 PM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  
(11-07-2017 05:03 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-07-2017 04:22 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  What ultimately brought change to the BCS system was the all-SEC championship game a few years back. That's when the powers at be started talking about a playoff. Now that we've got a playoff, I can definitely see this nightmare scenario forcing yet more changes.

If 3 separate conferences are left out then I do think you'll see a push for a champs only event although I wouldn't be shocked to see an expansion either.

How might it speed up realignment? Well, somehow we've got to account for 8 Big 12 schools...maybe even all 10.

The wrinkle in that is if Notre Dame can make the playoff without being a conference champion then we have to see a major shift in order to force them to go full in with the ACC. A champs only event would do it, but can everyone agree?

What I'm getting at is this...if it's champs only then your odds of making the playoff are directly related to how strong your conference competition is. If only one can make it then that's certainly an incentive to choose a weaker conference. The stronger the conference(SEC) then the less likely you are to want to limit it to champs as it could limit your possibilities in a variety of regards.

And since everyone knows the Big 12 is on the way out then whoever is opposed to a champs-only model may have to do some wheeling and dealing with Big 12 members to get a more favorable situation. In essence, if the Big 12 is interested in voting champs only then the SEC might look at that prospect one of two ways....

1) They may find a way to protest the process if the Big 12 votes for a measure that quickens its own death. In other words, why should their vote be allowed to alter the system if they're not even going to be around to participate under the new rules.

2) Strike some sort of deal with Big 12 schools that might very well still result in a champs-only playoff, but somehow gives an edge to the SEC under a new set of rules.

I'm not really proposing a specific plan of action. Just musing how some of these things might be viewed.

This is a good point to raise. I suspect that the trade off would be ease of access vs payout. Obviously Texas and Oklahoma are worth more in either the Big 10 or SEC, but the easiest path to the final four might well be to the West.

Send Texa-homa to the PAC and they ar at 16.

The SEC could take T.C.U. for the DFW market and look at taking West Virginia/Iowa State/or Kansas. I would lean toward Kansas because it gives the West a breather in conference. If the Big 10 wanted to move to 16 with Iowa State and Kansas then great. The SEC could take WVU and call it a day. That's 8 and it's adios Big 12. The SEC adds two to the middle and upper middle. Neither the SEC or Big 10 gets Texas and Oklahoma so that's a stalemate that would be acceptable.

If however the Big 10 wanted Iowa State and Kansas for whatever reason, and WVU received interest from the ACC then maybe looking at USF or UCF in connection with T.C.U. would be the most natural way to end SEC expansion. Shore up DFW and pick up a Central to South Florida presence.

If it's between UCF and USF for you guys then I think UCF may be better in the long run, especially since Orlando is not as encumbered by pro sports teams as Tampa. Also, the P4 settles in the central Florida market in a big way.
I don't give it a high probability, but if Texas and OU are off the market and TTU and OSU with them, and the SEC does want a physical presence in DFW then and only then does that kind of future growth move in another market area where we want a presence make any sense. I think the Gulf would make the better future market for the SEC but UCF as you point out does have a larger fan base and doesn't have an NFL franchise. It is also in Mouse Zone for exposure.

I find it highly unlikely that the SEC would take either UCF or USF too!
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-06-2017 01:42 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:06 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 12:52 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 09:14 AM)Gamecock Wrote:  Makes more sense to just go to 8 with some variation of 5+3

The networks, the schools, and the athletic departments are set up to head in that direction even if they had the desire to do so, which they don't. And perhaps more importantly, I don't think the players would be thrilled either. Most dream of the NFL and the last thing they want to do is increase their chance of injury by adding another game they aren't paid to play in.

I don't think the players have much of a voice but if they did I'd imagine they'd relish an expansion of the playoffs. They want to play when it matters; in the Armed Forces Bowl maybe not so much.

As far as administration, I imagine it would be very much like the BCS. Everyone loves and supports it until they don't. A UGA/Clemson/Bama/ND playoff where the Big 12, Big Ten, and Pac 12 all get left out might just be the impetus needed.


Of course, if the playoff ever does expand beyond four teams, most expect the early-round games would move to the participants’ campuses. That’d certainly be easier for fans of the host teams. Not so much the players.

“If we had to do another game after this? God, no,” Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware said last week. “I’d literally die.”

Boulware played his final college game Monday night. But based on the temperature of the sport today, at least nine more years of college players won’t have to worry about yet another playoff game.

Four feels more entrenched than ever before.

https://www.foxsports.com/college-footba...ama-011217

I think its the number of games already being played, thus preventing expansion of the CFP, that will force realignment. It's not like the conference are going to give up the CCG revenue to support going to 8 teams.

I don't think you'll see a champs only model and you would unfortunately end up keeping the committee, but they would be more of a rubber stamp than what they do right now. If an 18 team conference can't provide a one loss champion for the committee to 'pick' then they are the ones that have opened the door for a ND or G5 team.
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-10-2017 04:07 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:42 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:06 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 12:52 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 09:14 AM)Gamecock Wrote:  Makes more sense to just go to 8 with some variation of 5+3

The networks, the schools, and the athletic departments are set up to head in that direction even if they had the desire to do so, which they don't. And perhaps more importantly, I don't think the players would be thrilled either. Most dream of the NFL and the last thing they want to do is increase their chance of injury by adding another game they aren't paid to play in.

I don't think the players have much of a voice but if they did I'd imagine they'd relish an expansion of the playoffs. They want to play when it matters; in the Armed Forces Bowl maybe not so much.

As far as administration, I imagine it would be very much like the BCS. Everyone loves and supports it until they don't. A UGA/Clemson/Bama/ND playoff where the Big 12, Big Ten, and Pac 12 all get left out might just be the impetus needed.


Of course, if the playoff ever does expand beyond four teams, most expect the early-round games would move to the participants’ campuses. That’d certainly be easier for fans of the host teams. Not so much the players.

“If we had to do another game after this? God, no,” Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware said last week. “I’d literally die.”

Boulware played his final college game Monday night. But based on the temperature of the sport today, at least nine more years of college players won’t have to worry about yet another playoff game.

Four feels more entrenched than ever before.

https://www.foxsports.com/college-footba...ama-011217

I think its the number of games already being played, thus preventing expansion of the CFP, that will force realignment. It's not like the conference are going to give up the CCG revenue to support going to 8 teams.

I don't think you'll see a champs only model and you would unfortunately end up keeping the committee, but they would be more of a rubber stamp than what they do right now. If an 18 team conference can't provide a one loss champion for the committee to 'pick' then they are the ones that have opened the door for a ND or G5 team.

I would agree, but I don't think you will see an 18 team conference anytime soon, if ever.
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-10-2017 04:35 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:07 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:42 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:06 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 12:52 PM)JRsec Wrote:  The networks, the schools, and the athletic departments are set up to head in that direction even if they had the desire to do so, which they don't. And perhaps more importantly, I don't think the players would be thrilled either. Most dream of the NFL and the last thing they want to do is increase their chance of injury by adding another game they aren't paid to play in.

I don't think the players have much of a voice but if they did I'd imagine they'd relish an expansion of the playoffs. They want to play when it matters; in the Armed Forces Bowl maybe not so much.

As far as administration, I imagine it would be very much like the BCS. Everyone loves and supports it until they don't. A UGA/Clemson/Bama/ND playoff where the Big 12, Big Ten, and Pac 12 all get left out might just be the impetus needed.


Of course, if the playoff ever does expand beyond four teams, most expect the early-round games would move to the participants’ campuses. That’d certainly be easier for fans of the host teams. Not so much the players.

“If we had to do another game after this? God, no,” Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware said last week. “I’d literally die.”

Boulware played his final college game Monday night. But based on the temperature of the sport today, at least nine more years of college players won’t have to worry about yet another playoff game.

Four feels more entrenched than ever before.

https://www.foxsports.com/college-footba...ama-011217

I think its the number of games already being played, thus preventing expansion of the CFP, that will force realignment. It's not like the conference are going to give up the CCG revenue to support going to 8 teams.

I don't think you'll see a champs only model and you would unfortunately end up keeping the committee, but they would be more of a rubber stamp than what they do right now. If an 18 team conference can't provide a one loss champion for the committee to 'pick' then they are the ones that have opened the door for a ND or G5 team.

I would agree, but I don't think you will see an 18 team conference anytime soon, if ever.

18 is awkward unless you get rid of divisions. Then you could do either: 3 annual rivals playing home-home with every other conference foe every 4 years for 10 conference games OR 5 annual rivals playing 3 other conference foes each year meeting everyone every 4 years.
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-10-2017 04:44 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:35 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:07 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:42 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:06 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  I don't think the players have much of a voice but if they did I'd imagine they'd relish an expansion of the playoffs. They want to play when it matters; in the Armed Forces Bowl maybe not so much.

As far as administration, I imagine it would be very much like the BCS. Everyone loves and supports it until they don't. A UGA/Clemson/Bama/ND playoff where the Big 12, Big Ten, and Pac 12 all get left out might just be the impetus needed.


Of course, if the playoff ever does expand beyond four teams, most expect the early-round games would move to the participants’ campuses. That’d certainly be easier for fans of the host teams. Not so much the players.

“If we had to do another game after this? God, no,” Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware said last week. “I’d literally die.”

Boulware played his final college game Monday night. But based on the temperature of the sport today, at least nine more years of college players won’t have to worry about yet another playoff game.

Four feels more entrenched than ever before.

https://www.foxsports.com/college-footba...ama-011217

I think its the number of games already being played, thus preventing expansion of the CFP, that will force realignment. It's not like the conference are going to give up the CCG revenue to support going to 8 teams.

I don't think you'll see a champs only model and you would unfortunately end up keeping the committee, but they would be more of a rubber stamp than what they do right now. If an 18 team conference can't provide a one loss champion for the committee to 'pick' then they are the ones that have opened the door for a ND or G5 team.

I would agree, but I don't think you will see an 18 team conference anytime soon, if ever.

18 is awkward unless you get rid of divisions. Then you could do either: 3 annual rivals playing home-home with every other conference foe every 4 years for 10 conference games OR 5 annual rivals playing 3 other conference foes each year meeting everyone every 4 years.

Maybe we'll see 18 member conferences next time around, or maybe not. I think it really depends upon the schools being solicited for membership and whether or not they have the clout to bring others with them.

As for the set up it is in no way awkward. 3 divisions of 6 sets up very nicely geographically. You play 5 division schools 2 each from the other divisions on a rotational basis and you play 9 conference games and everyone in the conference every three years. If you need a permanent rival make it 10.

The divisions champs and best at large form your conference playoff.

So, there's nothing hard or awkward about it.

The only question is who do we take, and what number can be accommodated profitably. If it's Texas and Oklahoma only then that's a huge economic homerun. If it's Texa-homa it is still profitable, but nowhere near the homerun, more a like a solid double.
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-10-2017 04:55 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:44 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:35 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:07 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:42 PM)XLance Wrote:  Of course, if the playoff ever does expand beyond four teams, most expect the early-round games would move to the participants’ campuses. That’d certainly be easier for fans of the host teams. Not so much the players.

“If we had to do another game after this? God, no,” Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware said last week. “I’d literally die.”

Boulware played his final college game Monday night. But based on the temperature of the sport today, at least nine more years of college players won’t have to worry about yet another playoff game.

Four feels more entrenched than ever before.

https://www.foxsports.com/college-footba...ama-011217

I think its the number of games already being played, thus preventing expansion of the CFP, that will force realignment. It's not like the conference are going to give up the CCG revenue to support going to 8 teams.

I don't think you'll see a champs only model and you would unfortunately end up keeping the committee, but they would be more of a rubber stamp than what they do right now. If an 18 team conference can't provide a one loss champion for the committee to 'pick' then they are the ones that have opened the door for a ND or G5 team.

I would agree, but I don't think you will see an 18 team conference anytime soon, if ever.

18 is awkward unless you get rid of divisions. Then you could do either: 3 annual rivals playing home-home with every other conference foe every 4 years for 10 conference games OR 5 annual rivals playing 3 other conference foes each year meeting everyone every 4 years.

Maybe we'll see 18 member conferences next time around, or maybe not. I think it really depends upon the schools being solicited for membership and whether or not they have the clout to bring others with them.

As for the set up it is in no way awkward. 3 divisions of 6 sets up very nicely geographically. You play 5 division schools 2 each from the other divisions on a rotational basis and you play 9 conference games and everyone in the conference every three years. If you need a permanent rival make it 10.

The divisions champs and best at large form your conference playoff.

So, there's nothing hard or awkward about it.

The only question is who do we take, and what number can be accommodated profitably. If it's Texas and Oklahoma only then that's a huge economic homerun. If it's Texa-homa it is still profitable, but nowhere near the homerun, more a like a solid double.

There are great ways to divide up 18. 6 is a really good number for a little division.
The problem is this: It is really hard to integrate more than two teams at a time.
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-10-2017 06:37 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:55 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:44 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:35 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:07 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  I think its the number of games already being played, thus preventing expansion of the CFP, that will force realignment. It's not like the conference are going to give up the CCG revenue to support going to 8 teams.

I don't think you'll see a champs only model and you would unfortunately end up keeping the committee, but they would be more of a rubber stamp than what they do right now. If an 18 team conference can't provide a one loss champion for the committee to 'pick' then they are the ones that have opened the door for a ND or G5 team.

I would agree, but I don't think you will see an 18 team conference anytime soon, if ever.

18 is awkward unless you get rid of divisions. Then you could do either: 3 annual rivals playing home-home with every other conference foe every 4 years for 10 conference games OR 5 annual rivals playing 3 other conference foes each year meeting everyone every 4 years.

Maybe we'll see 18 member conferences next time around, or maybe not. I think it really depends upon the schools being solicited for membership and whether or not they have the clout to bring others with them.

As for the set up it is in no way awkward. 3 divisions of 6 sets up very nicely geographically. You play 5 division schools 2 each from the other divisions on a rotational basis and you play 9 conference games and everyone in the conference every three years. If you need a permanent rival make it 10.

The divisions champs and best at large form your conference playoff.

So, there's nothing hard or awkward about it.

The only question is who do we take, and what number can be accommodated profitably. If it's Texas and Oklahoma only then that's a huge economic homerun. If it's Texa-homa it is still profitable, but nowhere near the homerun, more a like a solid double.

There are great ways to divide up 18. 6 is a really good number for a little division.
The problem is this: It is really hard to integrate more than two teams at a time.

Not if the 4 are Texa-homa and thy join Missouri and Arkansas in a division. That's not an integration. It's a reunion!
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-10-2017 06:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 06:37 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:55 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:44 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:35 PM)XLance Wrote:  I would agree, but I don't think you will see an 18 team conference anytime soon, if ever.

18 is awkward unless you get rid of divisions. Then you could do either: 3 annual rivals playing home-home with every other conference foe every 4 years for 10 conference games OR 5 annual rivals playing 3 other conference foes each year meeting everyone every 4 years.

Maybe we'll see 18 member conferences next time around, or maybe not. I think it really depends upon the schools being solicited for membership and whether or not they have the clout to bring others with them.

As for the set up it is in no way awkward. 3 divisions of 6 sets up very nicely geographically. You play 5 division schools 2 each from the other divisions on a rotational basis and you play 9 conference games and everyone in the conference every three years. If you need a permanent rival make it 10.

The divisions champs and best at large form your conference playoff.

So, there's nothing hard or awkward about it.

The only question is who do we take, and what number can be accommodated profitably. If it's Texas and Oklahoma only then that's a huge economic homerun. If it's Texa-homa it is still profitable, but nowhere near the homerun, more a like a solid double.

There are great ways to divide up 18. 6 is a really good number for a little division.
The problem is this: It is really hard to integrate more than two teams at a time.

Not if the 4 are Texa-homa and thy join Missouri and Arkansas in a division. That's not an integration. It's a reunion!

It's been hard enough for Florida and South Carolina to understand that Missouri is not an OOC game. If sub divisions grow to six, Alabama and Tennessee will never know that Oklahoma is in the SEC.
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-10-2017 07:25 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 06:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 06:37 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:55 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:44 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  18 is awkward unless you get rid of divisions. Then you could do either: 3 annual rivals playing home-home with every other conference foe every 4 years for 10 conference games OR 5 annual rivals playing 3 other conference foes each year meeting everyone every 4 years.

Maybe we'll see 18 member conferences next time around, or maybe not. I think it really depends upon the schools being solicited for membership and whether or not they have the clout to bring others with them.

As for the set up it is in no way awkward. 3 divisions of 6 sets up very nicely geographically. You play 5 division schools 2 each from the other divisions on a rotational basis and you play 9 conference games and everyone in the conference every three years. If you need a permanent rival make it 10.

The divisions champs and best at large form your conference playoff.

So, there's nothing hard or awkward about it.

The only question is who do we take, and what number can be accommodated profitably. If it's Texas and Oklahoma only then that's a huge economic homerun. If it's Texa-homa it is still profitable, but nowhere near the homerun, more a like a solid double.

There are great ways to divide up 18. 6 is a really good number for a little division.
The problem is this: It is really hard to integrate more than two teams at a time.

Not if the 4 are Texa-homa and thy join Missouri and Arkansas in a division. That's not an integration. It's a reunion!

It's been hard enough for Florida and South Carolina to understand that Missouri is not an OOC game. If sub divisions grow to six, Alabama and Tennessee will never know that Oklahoma is in the SEC.

Of course they will! It's just that they don't have to play but 1 every three years, which is a big game to add into the rotation of both schools. What Missouri has had to suffer is being out of their own division of friendly faces. If we added 4 and created a Southwest division that just returns us to natural divisions.
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-10-2017 07:46 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 07:25 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 06:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 06:37 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 04:55 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Maybe we'll see 18 member conferences next time around, or maybe not. I think it really depends upon the schools being solicited for membership and whether or not they have the clout to bring others with them.

As for the set up it is in no way awkward. 3 divisions of 6 sets up very nicely geographically. You play 5 division schools 2 each from the other divisions on a rotational basis and you play 9 conference games and everyone in the conference every three years. If you need a permanent rival make it 10.

The divisions champs and best at large form your conference playoff.

So, there's nothing hard or awkward about it.

The only question is who do we take, and what number can be accommodated profitably. If it's Texas and Oklahoma only then that's a huge economic homerun. If it's Texa-homa it is still profitable, but nowhere near the homerun, more a like a solid double.

There are great ways to divide up 18. 6 is a really good number for a little division.
The problem is this: It is really hard to integrate more than two teams at a time.

Not if the 4 are Texa-homa and thy join Missouri and Arkansas in a division. That's not an integration. It's a reunion!

It's been hard enough for Florida and South Carolina to understand that Missouri is not an OOC game. If sub divisions grow to six, Alabama and Tennessee will never know that Oklahoma is in the SEC.

Of course they will! It's just that they don't have to play but 1 every three years, which is a big game to add into the rotation of both schools. What Missouri has had to suffer is being out of their own division of friendly faces. If we added 4 and created a Southwest division that just returns us to natural divisions.


Just give Missouri and Arkansas to the Big 12 and get back to what the SEC should be.
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(11-10-2017 09:12 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 07:46 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 07:25 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 06:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 06:37 PM)XLance Wrote:  There are great ways to divide up 18. 6 is a really good number for a little division.
The problem is this: It is really hard to integrate more than two teams at a time.

Not if the 4 are Texa-homa and thy join Missouri and Arkansas in a division. That's not an integration. It's a reunion!

It's been hard enough for Florida and South Carolina to understand that Missouri is not an OOC game. If sub divisions grow to six, Alabama and Tennessee will never know that Oklahoma is in the SEC.

Of course they will! It's just that they don't have to play but 1 every three years, which is a big game to add into the rotation of both schools. What Missouri has had to suffer is being out of their own division of friendly faces. If we added 4 and created a Southwest division that just returns us to natural divisions.


Just give Missouri and Arkansas to the Big 12 and get back to what the SEC should be.

Nope, we just need to add their most valuable neighbors.

BTW: The pressure just got turned up. Stanford 30 Washington 22. The PAC is out of the running for the CFP. If Iowa beats Wisconsin and Notre Dame beats Miami the pressure on the CFP ramps way way up. And if T.C.U. beats Oklahoma and loses their conference championship game the lid is coming off!
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
(11-11-2017 02:22 AM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 09:12 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 07:46 PM)JRsec Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 07:25 PM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-10-2017 06:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Not if the 4 are Texa-homa and thy join Missouri and Arkansas in a division. That's not an integration. It's a reunion!

It's been hard enough for Florida and South Carolina to understand that Missouri is not an OOC game. If sub divisions grow to six, Alabama and Tennessee will never know that Oklahoma is in the SEC.

Of course they will! It's just that they don't have to play but 1 every three years, which is a big game to add into the rotation of both schools. What Missouri has had to suffer is being out of their own division of friendly faces. If we added 4 and created a Southwest division that just returns us to natural divisions.


Just give Missouri and Arkansas to the Big 12 and get back to what the SEC should be.

Nope, we just need to add their most valuable neighbors.

BTW: The pressure just got turned up. Stanford 30 Washington 22. The PAC is out of the running for the CFP. If Iowa beats Wisconsin and Notre Dame beats Miami the pressure on the CFP ramps way way up. And if T.C.U. beats Oklahoma and loses their conference championship game the lid is coming off!

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Well, after this weekend I don't think this year's CFP will have much of an effect. That is, unless things get even crazier between now and championship weekend.

Notre Dame is out.

2 SEC teams are out.

Clemson and Miami will likely be a play-in game.

Oklahoma and Wisconsin have a shot.

The PAC is definitely out, but they played their way out. It won't be a matter of an equal or lesser team getting the nod.
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(11-13-2017 03:53 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  Well, after this weekend I don't think this year's CFP will have much of an effect. That is, unless things get even crazier between now and championship weekend.

Notre Dame is out.

2 SEC teams are out.

Clemson and Miami will likely be a play-in game.

Oklahoma and Wisconsin have a shot.

The PAC is definitely out, but they played their way out. It won't be a matter of an equal or lesser team getting the nod.

Schools still in the hunt:

PAC: n/a
XII: Oklahoma
SEC: Alabama, Georgia, Auburn
ACC: Miami, Clemson
B1G: Wisconsin, Ohio St

My best guess:

CFP Semifinal - Sugar Bowl: #1 Alabama vs. #4 Oklahoma
CFP Semifinal - Rose Bowl: #2 Miami vs. #3 Wisconsin
CFP Championship - Atlanta, Georgia: #1 Alabama vs. #2 Miami
NY6 - Orange Bowl: Clemson vs. Notre Dame
NY6 - Fiesta Bowl: USC vs. Ohio St
NY6 - Cotton Bowl: Oklahoma St vs. Central Florida
NY6 - Peach Bowl: Georgia vs. TCU

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I was hoping Notre Dame would finish with 1-loss AND not make the CFP. Not because I dislike Notre Dame, but because I'd be curious to see if that would trigger any discussion to join the ACC as a full football member.
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(11-13-2017 04:53 PM)BePcr07 Wrote:  
(11-13-2017 03:53 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  Well, after this weekend I don't think this year's CFP will have much of an effect. That is, unless things get even crazier between now and championship weekend.

Notre Dame is out.

2 SEC teams are out.

Clemson and Miami will likely be a play-in game.

Oklahoma and Wisconsin have a shot.

The PAC is definitely out, but they played their way out. It won't be a matter of an equal or lesser team getting the nod.

Schools still in the hunt:

PAC: n/a
XII: Oklahoma
SEC: Alabama, Georgia, Auburn
ACC: Miami, Clemson
B1G: Wisconsin, Ohio St

My best guess:

CFP Semifinal - Sugar Bowl: #1 Alabama vs. #4 Oklahoma
CFP Semifinal - Rose Bowl: #2 Miami vs. #3 Wisconsin
CFP Championship - Atlanta, Georgia: #1 Alabama vs. #2 Miami
NY6 - Orange Bowl: Clemson vs. Notre Dame
NY6 - Fiesta Bowl: USC vs. Ohio St
NY6 - Cotton Bowl: Oklahoma St vs. Central Florida
NY6 - Peach Bowl: Georgia vs. TCU

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I was hoping Notre Dame would finish with 1-loss AND not make the CFP. Not because I dislike Notre Dame, but because I'd be curious to see if that would trigger any discussion to join the ACC as a full football member.

That looks like a good New Years 6 - I hope you are right!
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RE: Could This Year's CFP Speed Up Realignment?
I remember reading that the G5 champ was likely to play in the Peach Bowl this year because of the upcoming CFP bowl rotation.

I think TCU gets bumped out after losing to Oklahoma in the B12 title game. Auburn sneaks in, just ahead of Penn St. I don't see Notre Dame jumping Georgia in the rankings.

Also, I think Ohio St. beats Wisconsin and wins the B1G title - who does the selection committee take for the #4 spot? I think Ohio St. sneaks in again. So,

Sugar (CFP): #1 Alabama v. #4 Ohio St.
Rose (CFP): #2 Miami v. #3 Oklahoma
Orange: #7 Clemson v. #5 Georgia
Fiesta Bowl: #9 Oklahoma St. v. #14 USC
Cotton Bowl: #6 Wisconsin v. #8 Notre Dame
Peach Bowl: #10 UCF v. #11 Auburn
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At this point I don't think this will accelerate any process, which will happen anyway, only that I have no idea what the next moves will be.
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(11-29-2017 07:10 AM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  At this point I don't think this will accelerate any process, which will happen anyway, only that I have no idea what the next moves will be.

Well, the first question to answer is: will the Big 12 survive?
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(11-29-2017 08:18 AM)XLance Wrote:  
(11-29-2017 07:10 AM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  At this point I don't think this will accelerate any process, which will happen anyway, only that I have no idea what the next moves will be.

Well, the ONLY question to answer is: will the Big 12 survive?

FIFY

Maybe until 2023. What this year will do, especially if any conference gets two in, or if the Big 10 gets left out, is accelerate the process leading to 4 P conferences. Commissioners don't like to be put in the spotlight having to defend their programs. Presidents don't like acrimony from the alums. And top brands don't like having to be judged.

If we had a champs only model then Ohio State wouldn't have to be weighed and found wanting before a national audience. Ditto for Alabama. If they miss the CFP because they didn't win their own championship game the alums get it. But if they are weighed and judged before the public court by a stilted panel of jurors it's infuriating because it brings the A.D. under scrutiny for the schedule, the coach under scrutiny for a bad loss in an otherwise good year, and it brings their conference under scrutiny if they have just a couple at the top and a lot at the bottom. It also turns off the sets of whole states, if not regions for the playoffs so ultimately, and in spite of the public controversy which usually drives ratings, it is ultimately bad for the networks.

So, if it does anything it might mean that the PAC / Big 10 / SEC / and ACC all finally realize that it is in their self interest to come to an understanding about how to divide the Big 12. The biggest issue however would be say the SEC's interest in cooperating if somehow the system this year landed us two CFP slots.

But that's how I see it.
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