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  • SI gives a 40-team 2-division national superconference model...

    From Michael Falkner@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 09:14:44 2023
  • From The NOTBCS Guy@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 30 12:05:14 2023
    https://www.si.com/college/2023/08/30/college-footballs-inevitable-conclusion-is-a-40-team-mega-alliance

    So, does the NFL expand to 40 teams? (Of course not - and there's not going to be any sort of high school draft or ban on transfers (i.e. "you transfer when you're traded"), either.)

    Here's an idea:
    22 (or 23) bowl games - one for each pair of teams, plus 2 more for the playoff semi-finals, and if they want to make the championship game a "bowl game", that's 23.
    At the remaining 90 or so schools, full scholarship football continues as normal, but they have their own NCAA Division I-A (and rename FCS as I-AA) tournament.

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  • From Michael Falkner@21:1/5 to The NOTBCS Guy on Wed Aug 30 17:54:32 2023
    On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:05:17 PM UTC-7, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:
    https://www.si.com/college/2023/08/30/college-footballs-inevitable-conclusion-is-a-40-team-mega-alliance

    So, does the NFL expand to 40 teams? (Of course not - and there's not going to be any sort of high school draft or ban on transfers (i.e. "you transfer when you're traded"), either.)

    My idea is about eight fewer teams, but the situation basically goes about where SI is thinking -- I just would have eight fewer teams. (And some of them would only exist as a function of NFL tie-ins.)

    Mike

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