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Originally Posted by Saul Good
The SEC needs to consult me if they go to sixteen because I have developed the perfect structure.
You have four pods with four teams in each. Each team is assigned a primary rival in another pod and a secondary rival from a third pod.
Each year, you play every team in your pod. That's three games. You then play every team in one of the other pods in a three year rotation. That's seven games. Finally, you play your rival. That's eight games.
However, every three years, you would be playing the pod containing your primary rival, so you need another game. That is when you would play your secondary rival.
This gives you eight conference games per year with four teams you play every year (your pod and rival), one team you play two out of every three years (your secondary rival), and ten teams that you play every three years.
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Are your pods based on geography or parity? Because most pod projections I've seen are based on geography (i.e. Mizzou, Ark, A&M, LSU in one, etc), but most rivalries will also be in that pod too.
If most teams in your pod are already your rivals, then you're going to end up with a lot of lame Texas A&M-Kentucky "rivalry" games.
I think your idea works well though if they split up into pods based on evening out recruiting areas and football powers. Another idea would be to stick with regional pods, and alternate playing two teams in the other three pods every other year.