Re: College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?
Back when the WAC was 16 teams (before the MWC split off), they had 4 pods of 4.
YEARS 1, 4, 7, 10...:
Division A--Pod 1, Pod 2
Division B--Pod 3, Pod 4
YEARS 2, 5, 8, 11...:
Division A--Pod 1, Pod 3
Division B--Pod 2, Pod 4
YEARS 3, 6, 9, 12...:
Division A--Pod 1, Pod 4
Division B--Pod 2, Pod 3
You play all 7 of your in-division opponents plus 1 rotating team in the other division. So, theoretically, you can set up a 12-year rotation where you play the teams in your own pod 12 times each and the teams in the other 3 pods 5 times each. That comes to 96 games in 12 years or 8 conference games a year. The problem, of course, would be setting up the pods without causing the conference to break up before it got started. I'm not sure that would be possible in either the Big Ten or the Pac Ten in their rumored 16-team incarnations.
However you do it, you need 2 divisions of 8, with a round robin within the division and 1 crossover game. Maybe 2 or 3 crossover games, but that would take a fight to implement.
Originally posted by J.D.
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YEARS 1, 4, 7, 10...:
Division A--Pod 1, Pod 2
Division B--Pod 3, Pod 4
YEARS 2, 5, 8, 11...:
Division A--Pod 1, Pod 3
Division B--Pod 2, Pod 4
YEARS 3, 6, 9, 12...:
Division A--Pod 1, Pod 4
Division B--Pod 2, Pod 3
You play all 7 of your in-division opponents plus 1 rotating team in the other division. So, theoretically, you can set up a 12-year rotation where you play the teams in your own pod 12 times each and the teams in the other 3 pods 5 times each. That comes to 96 games in 12 years or 8 conference games a year. The problem, of course, would be setting up the pods without causing the conference to break up before it got started. I'm not sure that would be possible in either the Big Ten or the Pac Ten in their rumored 16-team incarnations.
However you do it, you need 2 divisions of 8, with a round robin within the division and 1 crossover game. Maybe 2 or 3 crossover games, but that would take a fight to implement.
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