16-team schedules
Figured I'd come out with a few 16-team schedules, at least for football and basketball. Haven't quite figured out olympic sports yet. Figured I'd use the hypothetical of the PAC-12 adding Oklahoma, Oklahoma St. Texas, and Texas Tech.
This allows the schedules to basically be based upon these divisions.
PAC-16 West - Cal, Oregon, Oregon St., Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington St.
PAC-16 East - Arizona, Arizona St., Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas, Texas Tech, Utah
This would further be broken down (for scheduling purposes) into these pods.
PAC-16 Northwest - Oregon, Oregon St., Washington, Washington St.
PAC-16 Golden State - Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC
PAC-16 Four Corners - Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah
PAC-16 Texhoma - Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas, Texas Tech
And further broken down into media markets for scheduling: Washington (Washington, Washington St.), Oregon (Oregon, Oregon St.), N. California (Cal, Stanford), S. California (UCLA, USC), Oklahoma (Oklahoma, Oklahoma St.), Texas (Texas, Texas Tech)
Now, the overall football schedule is you play everybody in the same division once, plus one team from each of the other two pods, for a total of 9 games. This would set up a 8-year rotation, basically.
The way I did the schedule is that Week 4 is a cross-divisional week, where every team will play out-of-division. Weeks 5-12 are Divisional weeks, where teams will largely play one of their divisional opponents, but also have 1 corss-divisional team (their other one), and a BYE week as well. Week 13 is the big rivalry weekend.
This is what one year could look like for football, first conference game starts week 4.
Week 4 - USC @ Arizona, Arizona St. @ Cal, Stanford @ Colorado, Utah @ UCLA, Washington St. @ Oklahoma, Oklahoma St. @ Oregon, Oregon St. @ Texas, Texas Tech @ Washington
Week 5 - Washington @ Arizona St., Oklahoma @ Colorado, Utah @ Texas Tech, Texas @ Oklahoma St., Oregon @ Cal, Stanford @ USC, UCLA @ Oregon St. (Arizona & Washington St. on BYE)
Week 6 - Arizona @ Oregon St., Colorado @ Texas, Oklahoma St. @ Utah, Texas Tech @ Oklahoma, Cal @ Washington St., UCLA @ Stanford, Washington @ USC (Arizona St. & Oregon on BYE)
Week 7 - Arizona @ Oklahoma St., Texas Tech @ Arizona St., Utah @ Oregon, Oklahoma @ Texas, USC @ Cal, Stanford @ Washington, UCLA @ Washington St., (Colorado & Oregon St. on BYE)
Week 8 - Texas @ Arizona, Arizona St. @ Oklahoma, Colorado @ Washington St., Oklahoma St. @ Texas Tech, Cal @ UCLA, Oregon St. @ Stanford, USC @ Oregon, (Utah & Washington on BYE)
Week 9 - Arizona @ Texas Tech, Colorado @ Arizona St., Texas @ Utah, UCLA @ Oklahoma St., Washington @ Cal, Stanford @ Oregon, Oregon St. @ Washington St., (Oklahoma & USC on BYE)
Week 10 - Utah @ Arizona, Arizona St. @ Texas, Texas Tech @ Colorado, Oklahoma @ Stanford, UCLA @ Washington, Oregon St. @ USC, Washington St. @ Oregon, (Oklahoma St. & California on BYE)
Week 11 - Oklahoma @ Arizona, Arizona St. @ Utah, Colorado @ Oklahoma St., California @ Texas Tech, Oregon @ UCLA, USC @ Washington St., Washington @ Oregon (Texas & Stanford on BYE)
Week 12 - Arizona @ Colorado, Oklahoma St. @ Arizona St., Utah @ Oklahoma, Texas @ USC, California @ Oregon St., Washington St. @ Stanford, Oregon @ Washington (Texas Tech & UCLA on BYE)
Week 13 - Arizona @ Arizona St., Colorado @ Utah, Oklahoma @ OKlahoma St., Texas @ Texas Tech, Cal @ Stanford, UCLA @ USC, Oregon @ Oregon St., Washington @ Washington St.
Week 14 - Championship
You'll notice something about this. You'll notice that if Arizona is on the road for a week, Arizona St. is at home (with the exception of them possibly being on a BYE week), and vice versa. This was deliberate, to allow each media market to have a game within their media market. You'll also notice that within the divisions, each team plays home and away in each media market. This was also intentional.
Now, I didn't take into account certain out-of-conference games, such as the matchup between USC and Notre Dame. This is strickly a hypothetical conference schedule for 16 teams (using the PAC-16 for the hypothetical). Hope you guys like this schedule. I'll post 2 options for a potential 18-game, 10-week conference basketball, with 16 teams later.
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