re: Conference expansion?

What about the ACC (Fla. - 2, VA - 2, NC - 4)?

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14 is difficult to schedule. It appears that multiples of 4 (4, 8, 12, 16) are the easiest to work with.

I DO believe that we SHOULD HAVE gone to 9 games when we added Mizz. & TA&M.

@ 16, I can see 9 games working:

4x4 pods
3 games - pod teams
4 games - yearly random paired pod
2 games - 1 perm. team in non-paired pods

Rotate the pairs yearly & winners = SECCG
Y1 - AB vrs. CD
Y2 - AC vrs. BD
Y3 - AD vrs. BC

You see everybody in 3 yrs. (full H/A rotation in 6).

This way you can KEEP current c/d rivalries & NOT be in same pod.

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That is the way I sort of see it. Lets say we went to 16 by adding who mentioned earlier in WVU and NCSU.

4 pods:

1 East UGA, UF, USC, NSCU
2 East AU, UT, UK, WVU
1 West UA Vandy Ole Miss, MSU
2 West LSU, aTm, Ark, Mizzou

9 conference games:

Everyone plays the 3 other teams in their pod

Then every team will play 2 teams each from the other 3 pods. With a home and away schedule locked in for 2 years. Then rotate to play the other 2 teams from each pod home and away the following two years.

Example UGA would UF, USC, and NCSU in their pod each year

The next 2 years have home and away with UT & WVU from the other east pod, UA & Ole Miss from west 1, and aTm and Arky from west 2. After those 2 years rotate to play the other 2 from each pod home and away.

9 conference games and either the top 2 based on record go to the SECCG or drop another OOC game(cupcake) and have a semi-final with the the top in each pod(based on overall conference record) play for the chance to get to Atlanta.

Drawback to that...you've eliminated annual rivalries (DSOR, TSIO, IB, etc.)

But I DO like the idea of full H/A in 4 years.


The catch, unfortunately, is the 3 games in your pod determines 4H or 5H season. So it's not like you can say "Pods A & C will be 5H in years ______".