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POLL: How Many Teams Should the Big Ten Add?

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How Many Teams Should the Big Ten Add?

  • 2 (for 16 total teams, 4 pods of 4 teams each)

    Votes: 11 27.5%

  • 4 (for 18 total teams, 3 pods of 6 teams each)

    Votes: 3 7.5%

  • 6 (for 20 total teams, 4 pods of 5 teams each)

    Votes: 5 12.5%

  • 7 (for 21 total teams, 3 pods of 7 teams each)

    Votes: 3 7.5%

  • 10 (for 24 total teams, 4 pods of 6 teams each)

    Votes: 8 20.0%

  • Don't expand at all, stay at 14 teams

    Votes: 9 22.5%

  • Take whatever you can grab, just expand!

    Votes: 1 2.5%
  • Total voters
    40
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I guess one question is, how is the schedule going to be structured? If we add a cockload of teams, will non conference games go away? Will the season shorten to, say, 10 games of the playoff expands? I could see scenarios where the conference expands to 20 or 22, 2 divisions, no crossover games, one (real) conference title game, and 0-2 non conference games, depending on the length of the season. Otherwise, I don’t want a giant-assed conference because how do you make fair schedules with 4 or 5 “pods” of teams that all only play a total of 10-11 games? Who plays in the championship game? Are there pod semis? It gets crazy that way.
 
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Bucklion said:
I guess one question is, how is the schedule going to be structured? If we add a cockload of teams, will non conference games go away? Will the season shorten to, say, 10 games of the playoff expands? I could see scenarios where the conference expands to 20 or 22, 2 divisions, no crossover games, one (real) conference title game, and 0-2 non conference games, depending on the length of the season. Otherwise, I don’t want a giant-assed conference because how do you make fair schedules with 4 or 5 “pods” of teams that all only play a total of 10-11 games? Who plays in the championship game? Are there pod semis? It gets crazy that way.
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Four pods, six teams each:
  • Play each team in your own pod (5 games)
  • Play one team from every other pod (3 games)
  • Play three non-conference games (3 games)
  • Pod winners play each other for right to go to CCG; other teams play in a seeded tourney similar to 2020 season (1 game)
Each team would have 12 regular season games, 9 conference, 3 out-of-conference; two teams would play in the CCG for a 13th game. Basically, the same set-up that we have now, except that the 9th conference game would not be determined until the end of the season when the pod winners have a conference "play off", and everybody else plays in some sort of seeded tourney (primarily to determine bowl placement).
 
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BB73 said:
You’re a grumpy old man.
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