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Jan 18, 2022
11:26:58am
krindorr Truly Addicted User
So taking a shot at the execution of this and expanding it
Ignore pod names, I'm sure they'd come up with better names

West: BYU, Oklahoma St, Texas Tech
South: Baylor, Houston, TCU
North: Iowa St, Kansas, Kansas St
East: Cincy, UCF, WVU

So in the first year you'd have (for example) West paired with South and Midwest. So BYU would play Texas Tech, Oklahoma ST, TCU, Baylor, Houston, Kansas, Kansas St, Iowa St. And in later years they'd miss games against the other pod.

But the thing I think they could do that would be revolutionary and get attention is to add a 9th game.

The #X team from Pod A would play (as the last game of the season) the #X team from whatever pod they didn't match up that year.

So if the order listed above was the order of finish, then the last week of the season would be
West #1 BYU vs East #1 Cincy
South #1 Baylor vs North #1 Iowa St

West #2 Ok St vs East #2 UCF
South #2 Houston vs North #2 Kansas

West #3 Texas Tech vs East #3 WVU
South #3 TCU vs North #3 Kansas St

This would do 2 awesome things -

1. it would help more teams be bowl-eligible. The teams that are fighting for bowl-eligibility get another game against a slightly easier opponent.

2. It would serve as a mini-conference playoff. The winners of the #1 matchups would be the ones going to the conference championship game. Which would drive a LOT of interest that week on a national level

And obviously, the pod you miss (and then are matched up against in the final game) would rotate by year
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