(07-02-2019 04:20 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: There's a way to do 14 in 3 pods:
Your pods of 5 each become fixtures of the two divisions.
The pod of 4 is split among those 2 divisions but play each other as permanent crossovers.
Interesting concept. That could work for a conference like the ACC.
ATLANTIC/COASTAL
Clemson/Georgia Tech
Florida State/Miami-FL
NC State/Wake Forest
North Carolina/Duke
Virginia/Virginia Tech
ROTATING
Boston College/Syracuse
Louisville/Pittsburgh
Would cut the number of years for a full conference playthrough down to 4 at most, assuming they retain the 8-game schedule.
A variant for 12 teams could work for the Pac-12:
East: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah
West: Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State
Rotating: California+Stanford, USC+UCLA
For the Pie in the Sky Conference (PSC), you're looking at this for a basic 2-division alignment:
East: Central Florida, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Marshall, Memphis, South Florida, Temple
West: Air Force, Colorado State, Houston, Navy, North Texas, Southern Miss, Tulane
You might have, say, Cincinnati (or Marshall)+Memphis and Southern Miss+Tulane as the two rotating pairs.