This is from Peter Burns on Twitter

Couldn't agree more. That's why there needs to be more cross-conference games during the regular season.

Yep

In ten years Dan Wolken “ For player safety and to upend Sec dominance we need a computer/poll system that just picks the best top two teams.”

Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, and BAMA represented well

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That's why there needs to be more cross-conference games during the regular season.

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I feel like back in the day there were way more cross conference games between "major conferences". Teams used to play 2-3 a year

I just went to winsipedia and just looked up some random years in the 80s, LSU played Florida St, Rice (SWC) and Washington to start 1983. They played Arizona, USC, and Notre Dame in 1984. Texas A&M, UNC, and Notre Dame in 1986. Texas A&M, Ohio State, and Miami in 1988

What happened to that? Now every team gets maybe one of those if we're lucky most of the time and never more than 2. Some just load up on G5 and FCS teams.

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There is no reason to play those games when it could knock you out of playoff contention.

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If every P5 conference team has to play minimum 2 P5 OOC games then theoretically that should even out for everyone. 9 game conference schedule, 2 P5 teams, then a charity game against a G5 team to help the lower schools fund their seasons and maybe preserve some rivalries like Colorado/CSU. There should never be a P5 vs FCS matchup. That would be hard to mandate across all the conferences though and you could argue they'd just try to target the bottom tier teams in those conferences like Vandy or Northwestern but there's not enough of them to go around for everyone and even then sometimes even those teams can have a random good team to where you can't just coast against them.

And play them on the damn campus. Had to sit through Southern, New Mexico and UAB this year Who the hell wants to watch these damn games? We haven't had a good OOC opponent come play us in DV in a decade when Washington and WVU came here (sorry Syracuse doesn't really move the needle for me) because all our OOC matchups are neutral site and the Texas return trip was nixed by covid. I like how in 2024 we play USC and UCLA in the same year, hopefully the move to the Big 10 doesn't throw a wrench in that because it would suck to go play 2 true road games and have the return trips axed for stupid shite.