IMO conferences should be two nine team divisions. Four home & away conference games without having to play one or two teams in the opposing division. It's the only way to have a true championship game. It's a crap shoot on who teams gets paired with. One may draw the two best teams the other the two worst. Just have a hard time understanding how that is that an equitable situation. I've never understood the idea of potentially having to beat the same team twice to win a conference championship. If the teams split aren't they actually just co-champs?