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Maroon Baboon

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It's all predicated on how many regular season games each school will play


So let's stick with 12 for the sake of our discussion.

Make a Western Division (13 teams) and Eastern Division (13 teams). Everyone plays 12 games in their division. Winner of the divisions meets in the national championship game. That's 12 high-quality games per week for ESPN across all time zones. Moreover, if promotion was available for Tier 2, those games would be of great interest to viewers as well. Ditto in reverse for relegation. No one might care to watch two teams with terrible records late in the season, but if the loser was going to be relegated, plenty more would watch.

I am not satisfied with ESPN picking permanent winners and losers here. So if 40 teams are picked, how does #41 ever get their chance for the big time? If you build relegation and promotion in, it just makes so much more sense in dollars, fairness and competition.

Also, the salary cap idea that you bring up is interesting. But I am afraid we will run into the same problem as we have now. Some people will want to spend MORE and will find ways to do it. So if this cheating isn't being stopped now, I don't see it being stopped in the future. Although, if found out, they should be punished in real time in the standings.

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Posted: 04/09/2022 at 3:15PM



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Dabo Swinney on CFB: "40 or 50 teams and a commissioner" -- goldendomer 04/09/2022 12:01AM
  6 conferences of 7 teams each -- obguthr 04/10/2022 11:03AM
  UNC and UVA will follow the money ** -- MrFantastic! 04/12/2022 05:56AM
  How much television revenue would it generate? ** -- EDGEMAN 04/11/2022 10:06AM
  Its not atemdamce. Its money -- Mercury 04/11/2022 08:18AM
  Stadium capacity does not need to increase. ** -- marcbvtgm 04/10/2022 3:47PM
  Lane is in the Top 25 in stadium capacity right now. -- Maroon Baboon 04/09/2022 3:35PM
  Ok lets do math -- Mercury 04/11/2022 08:20AM
  If it is 16-20 teams, we won't be in it anyway. -- Maroon Baboon 04/09/2022 9:56PM
  Duplicate post. Sorry. Delete. Thanks.** -- Maroon Baboon 04/09/2022 9:57PM
  Who says who is in or out? -- 33laszlo99 04/09/2022 3:12PM
  Dabo is right that the P5 need their own setup. -- Hokester 04/09/2022 10:01AM
  EFL yes. NFL no. -- Maroon Baboon 04/09/2022 3:51PM
  Where do they draw the line? -- Maroon Baboon 04/09/2022 12:32AM
  Time to think outside the box -- 33laszlo99 04/09/2022 2:34PM
  We are in the wild west for now. -- goldendomer 04/09/2022 12:46AM
  I see another division (P-4 or P-5) -- Old Line Hokie 04/09/2022 08:36AM
  The problem is, conferences are no longer equal. -- Maroon Baboon 04/09/2022 4:17PM
  When was the last time conferences were equal? ** -- Old Line Hokie 04/09/2022 8:10PM
  Question for thought -- Mercury 04/09/2022 07:42AM
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