(12-17-2020 05:06 PM)Wahoowa84 Wrote:  UVA played its two major rivals (UNC and VT). So long as rivals are in the same conference, competition was fine in the conferences that started playing earlier. Things didn’t turn sideways until the last half-dozen weeks.

That's why I suggested earlier that they play the rivalries first to make sure they were first rather than at the end. I had posted a Big Ten schedule with Michigan-Ohio State the first week. Had the Big Ten scheduled Michigan-Ohio State and Indiana-Purdue earlier, they would've been played and less important games would've been dumped. But the Big Ten wanted them last and it got canned.