re: if 16 are teams are inevitable

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Why would they break up into pods, more than likely they would just do away with cross divisional games and keep the current format.

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You actually get a better schedule with 4 four-team divisions:

3 games against your division opponents

3 games against the three teams in the other division that finished relative to your school's finish

2 games divided among the remaining 9 schools (this is where you can factor in a permanent cross-division rivalry if both schools in that rivalry so choose)

So, assuming a north carolina and a virginia school are the next two:

Division: Arkansas, LSU, Missouri, Texas A&M

Division: Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State

Division: Kentucky, Tennessee, (VA school), Vanderbilt

Division: Florida, Georgia, (NC School), South Carolina

Permanent Cross-Division: Auburn/Georgia, Alabama/Tennessee