12-Team Playoff On the Way; 14-Team to Follow



Taking this example to the extreme:

Florida and Ole Miss were both founding members of the SEC. This is their 93rd year together in the SEC. Their football teams will play this weekend for only the 26th time in those last 93 years.

They only played once in the 1950s (in the Gator Bowl postseason!), twice in the 60s, twice in the 70s, 4 times in the 80s, twice in the 90s, 4 times in the 00s, once in the 10s, this will be their 3rd time in the 20s.
 
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I have been on a kick for a while, dropping conferences for football and developing a 3 or 4 tiered system of promotion and relegation. Each tier can have play-offs. Teams can move up and down. Let's be honest, many colleges want football, but don't want to spend the money. Make 8 team divisions that will set up for the play-offs. It is an idea that would work, that nobody wants.
 
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Taking this example to the extreme:

Florida and Ole Miss were both founding members of the SEC. This is their 93rd year together in the SEC. Their football teams will play this weekend for only the 26th time in those last 93 years.

They only played once in the 1950s (in the Gator Bowl postseason!), twice in the 60s, twice in the 70s, 4 times in the 80s, twice in the 90s, 4 times in the 00s, once in the 10s, this will be their 3rd time in the 20s.
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I guess I'm not sure the post is really that much of an inditement of the size of conferences. Any conference bigger than 10 is going to have the potential of teams not playing in the regular season. Obviously the bigger the conference, the more pronounced that is. But that's kind of the point of the conference championship game: the teams might not have played in the regular season so you put the two (presumably) best teams against each other to determine the champion. In fact, you could make an argument that it's better that the teams haven't played in the regular season, because if they split the two games, it kind of dilutes the claim that one of them is better than the other.

Would it be better if there was relatively more cross-over? I would vote for that. But it's not always easy to figure out who the best teams are going to be when you're making the schedule. And that's complicated when you try to preserve rivalries.
 
Georgia has no SEC games left to play, mid November. 😲🤯

They are done with Conference games but still have 2 games left to play that do not affect anything to be honest.

They play an FCS team and Geo.Tech (a rival).

Could they not play Georgia Tech earlier in the year and replace the end of season game against another SEC opponent (that doesn't suck)?

Why even schedule 4 games in November when that is supposed to be the hardest part of the season? They completed their conference games by Nov 15th. 😲

When most teams have players banged up, sore, injured and have to play 2 very difficult games.......

I am having a hard time with this, which includes SEC commissioner approval.

It would be similar to Nebraska playing the final two games against South Dakota State and Colorado (or Kansas). 2 non-conf games.

It's BS. And if they can do it, NU & B1G should do that too.

I mean, if the Huskers played Iowa week 6 on a warm hot afternoon in early October, that is a lot easier to do than near-freezing weather after thanksgiving.
 
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