(05-29-2019 08:32 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-29-2019 06:39 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(05-28-2019 09:14 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  Actually think they could get the ACC to support this effort. Doubt SEC and Big 10 would go along.

Yeah, the Big Ten and SEC are not going to be in favor of allowing a no-division CCG without a full round robin, for the same reason they were not in favor of it last time, i.e., because the ACC wanted it.

It could be a significant change for any conference compared to a season in which the conference had unbalanced divisions, not only because the CCG could match teams now in the same division, but because every team in a conference with more than 10 teams would play different schedules in a no division format than they do in a two division format.

You could theoretically end up with 3 unbeatens.

In the early 2000s, Ohio St. and Iowa both went 8-0 in the 11 team Big 10. With 14 teams, that would be more common and 3 would be possible.

Most controversial scenario, and one that would happen somewhere eventually if every conference did this, is two teams that didn't play each other tying for 2nd place, and of course if two teams tie for 2nd, only one of them plays in the CCG.

And as I mentioned above, scrapping the divisions and changing schedules could turn a good record into a title-contending record (which could make these ties more likely). Last season, for example, Penn State was 9-3 with losses to Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State. Maybe Penn State is 11-1 if they only have to play one of those three. Maybe LSU is 11-1 or 12-0 a few more times if they don't play Alabama every season.