**Running College Football Updates Thread**
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Depends on how many teams of Pac. 10 join Big 12. Add another couple of teams and have three 8 team divisions
West coast, Texas or southwest and midwest alantic coast. Maybe SMU and a alantic coast team.
West coast, Texas or southwest and midwest alantic coast. Maybe SMU and a alantic coast team.
Two 8 team division doesn't work very well. If you assume you have 9 conference games, then 7 are playing in your division, and only 2 from the other. The net is you would only play teams in the other division every 4 years.
A 9 game schedule where you have 3 anual games, and you play every other team every other year seems much better. For a 16 team BIG12 this does require more travel, but if you are far from the geographic center then no matter what the geography is working against you.
I wouldn't think the BIG12 would take SMU. I would expect them to take whichever 3 or 5 best PAC teams are available to them( Colorado already decided)
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Sorry, I missed that, but it obviously makes it much worse. Instead of playing the teams out of your division every 4 years it would be every 8 years.
It wouldn't feel like the teams in other divisions were in the same conference.
IMHO 16 is a very good number, with 3 fixed match ups, everyone else every other year. Beyond that, and you have to either have more conference games, or play certain teams less often.
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