If you could get an expanded playoff together, and beyond eight teams, you can motivate conferences to also consider beefing up the schedules and not fear as much what a death march schedule can have on post-season hopes. It’s where basketball has had it right, where a school may not be punished with an okay record but high SOS.

Oddly, I wish they’d shift Nebraska east and give them that brutal schedule because it’s more like what they used to see in the Big 8/12 collectively. I’ve wondered if that kind of schedule could motivate the recruitment there. And, maybe shift a Rutgers or Indiana west to mingle with schools who are more consistently inconsistent, like Purdue, Minnesota, Illinois, and Northwestern.