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Why a 15-team conference could work for football (yep, another realignment thread)
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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 732196" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>Personally I don't like expanding. I actually think 12 teams is the best with an 8 game conference schedule. Seems like a smooth set up to me. With 14, and even more so 16, I think you run into issues where you play some teams so rarely that they don't really feel like conference games. IMO the best way to do a 16 team conference is basically to treat it like trying to create the best two 8 team conferences and then treating non divisional games as pseudo out of conference games (meaning trying to make it have no impact on choosing divisional winner except as a last case measure). So something like</p><p></p><p>ACC South </p><p>Miami</p><p>FSU</p><p>GT</p><p>Clemson</p><p>UNC</p><p>NCSU</p><p>Duke</p><p>Wake</p><p></p><p>ACC North</p><p>UL</p><p>VT</p><p>UVA</p><p>Pitt</p><p>ND</p><p>Cuse</p><p>BC</p><p>WVU (need a 16th)</p><p></p><p>There are some issues with this set up for sure, but I think it hits most of the major factors are hit. In general I don't see any reason that a south team would be disappointed. Of the north teams, maybe UL wouldn't like the set up. I think the biggest issue would be ND would probably hate this set up and wouldn't accept it as I believe the only real reason they'd want to join is the prospect of frequent trips south. So maybe switch miami and UL, and have one perma cross over game allowing for Miami to keep FSU, and ND to have GT and Miami yearly on alternating cycles. </p><p></p><p>I'm not a huge fan of the pod system, 3 or 4 pods, unless conferences are allowed semifinal games</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 732196, member: 2299"] Personally I don't like expanding. I actually think 12 teams is the best with an 8 game conference schedule. Seems like a smooth set up to me. With 14, and even more so 16, I think you run into issues where you play some teams so rarely that they don't really feel like conference games. IMO the best way to do a 16 team conference is basically to treat it like trying to create the best two 8 team conferences and then treating non divisional games as pseudo out of conference games (meaning trying to make it have no impact on choosing divisional winner except as a last case measure). So something like ACC South Miami FSU GT Clemson UNC NCSU Duke Wake ACC North UL VT UVA Pitt ND Cuse BC WVU (need a 16th) There are some issues with this set up for sure, but I think it hits most of the major factors are hit. In general I don't see any reason that a south team would be disappointed. Of the north teams, maybe UL wouldn't like the set up. I think the biggest issue would be ND would probably hate this set up and wouldn't accept it as I believe the only real reason they'd want to join is the prospect of frequent trips south. So maybe switch miami and UL, and have one perma cross over game allowing for Miami to keep FSU, and ND to have GT and Miami yearly on alternating cycles. I'm not a huge fan of the pod system, 3 or 4 pods, unless conferences are allowed semifinal games [/QUOTE]
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