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Originally Posted by Montana Moe
I know this is all conjecture, but what if the big boys still played their conference schedule, but their non-conference opponents were scheduled in the relegation/promotion system?
Not playing every team in their level, but 3-4 teams like today, keeping the total games at 12.
I'd much rather see LSU play VA Tech, Oregon, and Missouri instead of Tulane, NW Louisiana, and Troy.
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Schedules are made 5+ years in advance. It's almost impossible to judge who is at their "level" aside from a few major programs (and even then no one could predict Florida State and Miami's downfalls).
If anything, this just leaves out the Iowa's and the Cincinnati's even more. Or opens a whole new can of worms. Who's the better team - the Texas team that was handed 3 good non-con opponents that went 11-1 or the Colorado team that surprises everyone by going 12-0, but doesn't get to prove itself against the big boys in non-con play.
It seems like a system like this would only give a handful of teams a chance at finishing #1 or 2.