CBS says the ACC will ask the NCAA to do away with the requirement that football conferences must have divisions in order to have a conference championship game.  ACC's concern is that an unranked division champ would knock of a ranked division champ in the title game, hurting the ranked team's chances to get in the NCAA playoff.  They want the flexibility to have the two highest-ranked teams (regardless of conference record) to play for the ACC title.  Even though that situation will likely never occur in the MAC, with the odd number of teams the MAC seems to be destined to have, it may be something to consider as a means for getting rid of unbalanced conference schedules.  Some East teams now play five teams within the division while others play all six.

You wouldn't necessarily have a balanced schedule (i.e., where everybody plays everybody else).  But where one division is decidedly weaker than the other it gives a team in the weaker division a distinct advantage to play only two teams in the other division every year while some teams in the division play three.    

That may be true........but it still seems much-ado about nothing. Could you have reasonably argued before last year's MACG that an NIU/Ball State rematch would have been a better conference title game than NIU/BG? Absolutely. Was any serious person going to argue that after the MACG? No. There's the potential to screw over someone in any scenario. At least under the current format, you have a pretty objective standard (win the games you play, beat the teams in your division, etc.) than one based upon poll votes.

EDIT: (I don't think we're disagreeing, btw.....the EMM AYY SEE is a "have not" and the AYY SEE SEE is a "have".......so obviously priorities for arranging a conference championship aren't going to be the same....)

And what's even more bizarre is that starting next season rankings theoretically will mean nothing.  They're pitching the computers and the crazy gyrations and going to a selection committee.  I guess a win over a ranked team will mean more to some than a win over an unranked team but it'll only make a difference if the team is on the bubble to begin with.

As a former season ticket holder at UVA, the ACC like many conferences have all but buried many rivalries or games of interest to particular fans.  I enjoyed Wake coming to Charlottesville every other year and now they come to C-Ville about once a decade.  I don't think Clemson will return until I am eligible for Medicare (not that Medicare will even exist by then). 

Then theoretically they could have a team that goes 8-0 in the conference but is 9-3 overall not making the championship game because the selection committee doesn't rank it as high as a team that's 7-1/11-1 and another team that's 7-1/10-2.  It cheapens the conference games.