One, I don’t see how it benefits the blue bloods and two, varying size of the conferences makes the 8+1+1 arrangement a logistical problem. If they are scheduling at the end of each season based on intriguing matchups going into the next year, the most intriguing matchups will typically be blue blood vs. blue blood.

The best draws out of the PAC 12 are typically going to be USC, Oregon, and one to two other teams. Top draws out of the BIG will be OSU, Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, and typically other teams that are hyped like Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota and maybe Nebraska if they can get things going. ACC: Clemson, Miami, FSU (if they figure their program out), and one or two others teams (this year a team like UNC).

If you’re going to base scheduling off intriguing matchups that means USC and Oregon switch off playing Clemson, Ohio State, and other blue bloods every year to increase the inventory of valuable games for the TV deal. Oregon State vs. Clemson will never be intriguing and no way Clemson travels to Corvallis. At what point do these teams get tired of playing a tough out of conference every year and sharing the revenue from these valuable games with schools like Oregon state as they play the likes of Wake Forest and Rutgers in front of nobody? Is USC really going to give up its lucrative rivalry with Notre Dame and lucrative neutral site games against Alabama and LSU to play Alliance games where the revenue is shared with the conference or the alliance? Or will the schools and not the conference get the revenue from these games? If this is the case the revenue gap between the top and bottom of each conference will grow and it wouldn’t be any different from the top schools scheduling each other with separate scheduling agreements like they already do.

Other issue I see is that with only 12 teams in the PAC 12, two ACC/BIG 10 teams would only have an 8+1 schedule unless four PAC 12 schools are doing an 8+2+1 type schedule which would be brutal. This is less of an issue and could be mitigated by the PAC 12 adding two teams. But the depth of the BIG vs. the PAC 12 and ACC means the better teams in the BIG who don’t draw Clemson/Oregon and the small handful of other good teams will be destroying weak ACC and PAC 12 teams every year.