It’ll make it more difficult to bring in marquee non conference opponents. Would a 10 power conference opponent mandate be better? Would ESPN pay for either?

Balance in scheduling, in such, that one school could play all other conference schools within a reasonable two year period and still have a set of yearly “rivalry “ opponents.

(01-02-2023 08:48 PM)murrdcu Wrote:  Balance in scheduling, in such, that one school could play all other conference schools within a reasonable two year period and still have a set of yearly “rivalry “ opponents.

I suppose playing an opponent every third year could still be considered reasonable. 8 games may be considered more balanced than 9 with equal home and away games, unless you mean that missing 6 opponents is more balanced than missing 7, in a given year, which seems a marginal improvement.

Overall, the differences seems marginal.

(01-29-2023 11:55 AM)Crayton Wrote:  

(01-02-2023 08:48 PM)murrdcu Wrote:  Balance in scheduling, in such, that one school could play all other conference schools within a reasonable two year period and still have a set of yearly “rivalry “ opponents.

I suppose playing an opponent every third year could still be considered reasonable. 8 games may be considered more balanced than 9 with equal home and away games, unless you mean that missing 6 opponents is more balanced than missing 7, in a given year, which seems a marginal improvement.

Overall, the differences seems marginal.

All that matters is getting enough schools to agree to the format changes…as well as broadcasting partners.

Playing every school in your conference every other year will make the SEC feel like a traditional conference as opposed to those years with two divisions that made the SEC feel like two separate conferences with some unique scheduling agreements between them.

This might be why we hear a lot of “we are happy where we are and look forward to integrating Texas and Oklahoma “ tones in all conversations. Getting too big is a scheduling problem. Finding more programs that add value to one of the two most profitable conferences is the other.