...the BC$ find a way to allow for two rounds of league championship games? I could see them encouraging a 4x4 set up with two semi-final games followed by a final round the week after.

This would set up eight extra games which would pull in maximum bucks.

They will find a way to screw it up.

Cat Food Flambe';388598 wrote:...the BC$ find a way to allow for two rounds of league championship games? I could see them encouraging a 4x4 set up with two semi-final games followed by a final round the week after.

This would set up eight extra games which would pull in maximum bucks.

I don't see anyone other than the Big 10 potentially adapting a 4 division arrangement. It would make no sense at all for the PAC 10 to do it. Not with a natural barrier in the Rocky Mountains splitting the conference cleanly in two. going to super conferences isn't going to help the push for a playoff system.

3reppom;389106 wrote:I don't see anyone other than the Big 10 potentially adapting a 4 division arrangement. It would make no sense at all for the PAC 10 to do it. Not with a natural barrier in the Rocky Mountains splitting the conference cleanly in two. going to super conferences isn't going to help the push for a playoff system.

It's going to happen though, if there's four mega conferences.

According to Gordon Gee at the Athletic Department meeting (one of my really good friends is on athletic council so he was at the meeting) the end goal of all of this conference alignment is this:

Four 16 team mega conferences split into 4 divisions of 4
Each conference has a 4 team conference championship with the 4 winners of the divisions

The winners of each of the 4 conferences meet in a 4 team playoff to determine a national championship. This would be a plus 1 type playoff system but allow the bowl system to remain intact.




Take all of that with a grain of salt. Just because Gee said it doesn't mean it's going to happen, and we all know what happened last time I reported something I heard.

And pre-emptively, no Gee didn't say what the other 4 teams would be in the Big 10, he said they're still looking at potential suitors.

If the PAC 10 goes to 16 as anticipated they will not have four divisions. There is no reason for them to do it. It makes much more sense for that conference to be aligned with the original PAC 8 schools in one division and the 8 new additions to the conference in the other. Creating 4 divisions would add a whole bunch of needless complications to an already insanely complicated process. There will be a conference championship for the PAC 10, but just from the winners of each division, which is the same end result.