Now that the NCAA is planning to no longer require conferences to have divisions for a championship game, the ACC is considering eliminating divisions in order to have each team in the league play all the other ACC teams every four years. The plan is to have each team play three permanent opponents each year and rotating the other ten teams in groups of five (five in one two-year cycle and the other five in the next two-year cycle, home-and-home). The two teams with the best conference records would play for the conference title.
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The MAC should consider something like this. Since BG and Toledo are in different divisions and play each other every year, the MAC's teams wind up not playing all the other MAC teams equally. Maybe have four groups of three, so that each team would play the other two teams in its group every year and rotate two of the other three groups, for a total of eight games every year. They would play each of the other groups four times every six years. For example, Group A would play B and C in years one and two, C and D in years three and four, and B and D in years five and six.
In order to keep most of the rivalries intact, the four groups could be Akron-Kent-Buffalo, Ohio-MOFO-BSU, BG-Toledo-NIU, and the Michigans.
Last Edited: 5/14/2022 11:47:01 AM by Pataskala