(10-11-2020 10:10 PM)esayem Wrote: ...division-less is certainly the way to go. But is the 13-game thing accurate? Because the rule was in place before 12 game regular seasons.
The NCAA rule limits the number of games per season to 12, then allows an exemption for a conference championship (13th) game. My point is you don't need to follow that rule if the FCG is, in fact, the 12th game.
Here are the pertinent rules:
17.11.5.1 Maximum Limitations -- Institutional. [FBS/FCS] In bowl subdivision football, a member institution
shall limit its total regular-season playing schedule with outside competition during the permissible football playing season
in any one year to 12 contests (games or scrimmages),
except as provided for member institutions located in Alaska and Hawaii, under Bylaw 17.30.2, and except as provided for all members
under Bylaw 17.11.5.2.
(17.30.2 is the "Hawaii Rule" which is of no use here, but the other exemption...)
17.11.5.2 Annual Exemptions. [FBS/FCS]
17.11.5.2.1 Bowl Subdivision. [FBS] In bowl subdivision football, the maximum number of football contests shall exclude the following: (Revised: 1/10/90, 11/1/07 effective 8/1/08, 10/28/10, 10/27/11 effective 4/1/12, Adopted: 8/2/12 effective 8/1/14, 1/15/16 effective 8/1/16)
(a) Spring Game. One contest at the conclusion of the spring practice period [see Bylaw 17.11.4-(a)], provided the contest is against a team composed of bona fide alumni or students or both;
(b) Conference Championship Game. One conference championship game:
(1) Between division champions of a conference that is divided into two divisions (as equally balanced in number as possible) and conducts round-robin, regular-season competition in each division; or
(2) Between the top two teams in the conference standings following full round-robin regular-season competition among all members of the conference.
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