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Interesting take by ESPN's Bill Connelly on the revised college football schedules (and its obvious that the SEC rigged their schedules to protect the elite teams): https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29629210/college-football-schedule-takeaways-sec-additions-notre-dame-experiment-more
Also, Connelly argues for doing away with the dumb current ACC division format using WF as an example:
Meanwhile, in the ACC, thanks to the arbitrary, non-geographical divisions it drew up years ago -- in part with the thought of creating annual Florida State-Miami title games (how'd that go?) -- the Atlantic Division's Wake Forest had played Boston College (775 miles away) every year since 2003 but had played North Carolina (82 miles away) only once since 2013, until the Demon Deacons and Tar Heels agreed to a "nonconference" battle last fall. In this period of redrawn schedules, however, Wake skips BC but plays North Carolina, Duke (83 miles) and NC State (105 miles), all in actual conference battles, for the first time since 2015.
This new scheduling quest is, in other words, reminding us of how great things could be if conferences scrapped divisions in favor of a pods model. I wrote about it last October. Most teams have only a small handful of true rivals they must play every year, and strapping teams with five or six permanent opponents (or, in the SEC's case, seven) means it can take forever to execute home-and-homes with teams from the opposite division.
Also, Connelly argues for doing away with the dumb current ACC division format using WF as an example:
Meanwhile, in the ACC, thanks to the arbitrary, non-geographical divisions it drew up years ago -- in part with the thought of creating annual Florida State-Miami title games (how'd that go?) -- the Atlantic Division's Wake Forest had played Boston College (775 miles away) every year since 2003 but had played North Carolina (82 miles away) only once since 2013, until the Demon Deacons and Tar Heels agreed to a "nonconference" battle last fall. In this period of redrawn schedules, however, Wake skips BC but plays North Carolina, Duke (83 miles) and NC State (105 miles), all in actual conference battles, for the first time since 2015.
This new scheduling quest is, in other words, reminding us of how great things could be if conferences scrapped divisions in favor of a pods model. I wrote about it last October. Most teams have only a small handful of true rivals they must play every year, and strapping teams with five or six permanent opponents (or, in the SEC's case, seven) means it can take forever to execute home-and-homes with teams from the opposite division.
