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jb1020

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<font size="2">Even though I hate it, its all inevitable at this point.
That being said I'd like to see the SEC step out on a limb and do
something no other conference has done. 3 divisions.

West:
LSU
Arkansas
A&M
Missouri???
Oklahoma State??? or whoever we decide to add...

Central:
MSU
OM
Bama
Auburn
Vandy

East:
Florida
UGA
Kentucky
S. Carolina
Tenn

Instead
of a championship game, we have championship week. A 4 team playoff.
All Division winners, plus a wild card. Teams are seeded according to
power rankings and the first two games are home games for the top seeds.
Then the championship game is in ATL.

Sorry, I'm bored at work and can't do anything other than think about football. This sounds pretty damn cool huh?</font>
 
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dawgs.sixpack

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Oct 22, 2010
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more likely you'd see 4 4 team divisions, assuming we add a&m, mizzou, VT, and f$u it'd look something like this:<div>
</div><div>west: lsu, ark, a&m, mizzou</div><div>south: msu, om, bama, aub</div><div>north: tenn, vt, ky, vandy</div><div>east: fla, uga, f$u, usc</div><div>
</div><div>outside of swapping vandy for usc or something, seems pretty balanced.</div><div>
</div><div>play 3 games against your intra divisional rivals</div><div>play 4 games against theentiretyof another division, every 2 years the division matchups rotate (similar to how entire nfl divisions play another entire division)</div><div>2 'wild card' games, these games will be rotated regularly and schools may put in for 1 'permanent' non-divisional rival, i.e. bama v. tenn or uga v. aub or fla v. tenn, etc., otherwise just rotates among non-divisional programs who aren't currently on your cross-divisional matchups</div><div>9 total conference games (and 9 are coming soon with or without expansion anyway)</div><div>play a semi-final at the home stadiums of the 2 best division winners and a sec cg in atl</div><div>
</div><div>the 'wild card' spot would require someone to sit down and put in some work to work out the logistics, but i wouldn't imagine it'd be all that tough, and you'd still see every sec program at least 2 every 6 years, which is the same rate we see east programs anyway (besides ky)
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AssEndDawg

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jb1020 said:
<font size="2">Instead
of a championship game, we have championship week. A 4 team playoff.
All Division winners, plus a wild card. Teams are seeded according to
power rankings and the first two games are home games for the top seeds.
Then the championship game is in ATL.</font>
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they only allow for a single conference championship game.
 
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dawgs.sixpack

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i know the ncaa only allows for 1 championship game, but the times they are a changin' and i could see the sec or whoever ends up going to 16 teams first applying for a semi-final scenario or asking the ncaa to withdraw the rule or however they'd go about it.
 
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patdog

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Not only will the NCAA never allow it, the SEC wouldn't even want it anyway. Way too much chance for a team to lose a spot in the BCS championship game or for the SEC's automatic BCS bowl bid to go to a 9-4 team.</p>
 
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VegasDawg13

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I think each team should have a permanent opponent in each division instead of the wild card games.<div>
</div><div>So, using your divisions, our schedule would consist of Ole Miss, Bama, Auburn, A&M (our permanent West opponent), Kentucky (our permanent North opponent) and USC (our permanent East opponent) every year. Then, divisions rotate every two years to match up against each other. In years 1 and 2, our schedule would be filled out by LSU, Arkansas, and Missouri. In years 3 and 4, our schedule would be filled out by UT, VT, and Vandy. In years 5 and 6, our schedule would be filled out by Florida, UGA, and FSU.</div><div>
</div><div>Now, the other tweak is to get rid of a 4 team conference tournament. In the above example, in years 1 & 2, teams from the West and South all play each other, so the top team from those two divisions would play the top team from the North/East. In years 3 and 4, the top team from the South/North would play the top team from the East/West.</div><div>
</div><div>This way, you never go more than 4 years without playing any given team. The important rivalries would all be preserved. New rivalries would form more quickly since all the new entries would have 6 permanent opponents. You can expand to 16 without adding a game to either the regular season (assuming we go to 9 games when we expand to 14 teams) or the post-season.</div>
 
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