(08-24-2021 10:10 PM)AlwaysSunny Wrote: And... that's pretty much exactly what they just did. They have no reason to schedule anyone else outside of conference now.
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(08-24-2021 02:29 PM)indianasniff Wrote: https://bigten.org/news/2021/8/24/genera...iance.aspx
Here is the announcement
What I see happening is that two non conference football games are accounted for by playing a team from the other two leagues leaving the last game as a viable alternative to schedule a MAC or CUSA type program. Similar to what many schools already do.
1 vs 1 2 vs 2 etc could be one way or the games could form a rotation.
First, putting one non-conference game into the pool seems a lot more likely. Increasing the P5 quotas by one creates one more P5 games to offer into the pool,
except for schools like OSU and Clemson that may already be scheduling above the current P5 minimum. Even with just one game in the pool, getting those schools into the system requires some time to restructure or unwind contracts.
And it likely won't be 1v1, 2v2, etc. ... more like splitting the schools into four tiers for a two year cycle, home/away tiers 1 through 4 (5 schools each), away/home tiers 1 through 4 (5 schools each), then at the start of each year, sorting out the tier 1, tier2, tier3, tier4 games.
Likely include a replay block ... each school cannot be scheduled against the facing school in their tier they've played the most recently.
If the Alliance schools also agree to not do new FCS contracts going ahead, the impact on the Go5 schools would be less dramatic, since, for example, every year the Big Ten division that is allowed to have FCS games under the current rule may have 5-6 FCS games total, so it might be about 8-9 games converted from Go5 to P5, 5-6 converted from FCS. The impact on ACC Go5 buy games, where more FCS games are played at present, might be even more muted.
The current tight Go5 buy game market, with the resulting contracts sometimes closer to $2m than $1m, would definitely loosen, but buy games would not really go away.
Indeed, if the CFP12 increases the MAC payout, maybe Kent State could
afford to go down from selling three games (and buying one FCS games) to only selling two, and that would be a good thing.
And if the Alliance stops scheduling FCS games, that also makes it less expensive for MAC schools to buy FCS games.