(11-14-2018 08:28 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(11-14-2018 01:34 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(11-13-2018 06:42 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(11-13-2018 06:26 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  Id be happy if the NCAA would allow conferences to have as many divisions as they like. As conferences get bigger---this will become a bigger issue.

What isn't allowed is for a conference to have more than one football conference title game that is exempt from the limit on the number of regular season games. And that's the sticking point. Extending the regular season by one or two more weeks so that a conference can have a 4 or 8 team football tournament, without giving extra games to every other team in FBS, is a non-starter.

True. But the rules governing CCG's also specifically prevent a conference from dividing into any more than 2 divisions for purposes of a title game. A 4 pod system, for instance, is not allowed--even if the conference has a tie breaker method to determine which 2 pod champs would actually play in a single CCG. The truth is, for some conferences--especially the more spread out ones---a pod system would work much better than 2 larger divisions. To be clear---its not necessary to have a 4 game playoff within the conference simply because you have 4 pods---you just have to have a reasonable tie breaker method for determining which 2 pod winners advance to the CCG. The season need not be expanded. Honestly, its really no more illegitimate than the way we crown our national champion. We have 10 FBS conference winners---but only 4 teams advance to the playoff (hell, the playoff participants may not all necessarily even be conference champs). We've simply set up a system to decide who advanced into a 4 team playoff. Before the CFP, the BCS had a system to select who advanced into a single title game (which is very much how a 4-pod system would work with a single title game).

You're talking about pods as if they were divisions unto themselves. The idea of the pod system is to have them rotate between divisions, WAC-16 style. So it's certainly permitted under the current rules.

Thats was my whole original point. I'd like to see the NCAA give the the conferences the ability to divide into as many divisions as they like. Yes, you can use pods today---but your really just using the pods to mimic two divisions. What I'm proposing is simply allowing conferences to decide how many divisions to split into. The single CCG per conference rule is fine and would not need to change. A true 3 or 4 division format would give conferences far more scheduling flexibility than the current model.