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[Scott Stewart]

Actually, that is how the SEC is arranged now.

Each team plays their division (5), has a designated rival from the other
division, and then rotates the other two conference games.

Scott

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> > Right, I think there is a proposal to have one designated
> cross-divisional
> > rival that a team could play every year.
>
> I'm not sure that works.  With six teams in a division, an eight-game
> conference schedule means you play all five teams in your division, plus
> half of the teams in the other division, like how the Big XII worked.
>
> If you designate one school as the cross-conference rival, then that leaves
> five schools, so there's no easy rotation schedule for them.
>
> Now, if you go to TWO cross-division designated opponents and a nine game
> conference schedule, then the four non-designated cross-division opponents
> could play two on/two-off schedules against the other division.
>
> I personally will be surprised if the Big Ten comes up with a purely
> geographic
> divisional alignment, because that would put Michigan, Ohio State and Penn
> State in the same division, which isn't very balanced:
>
> West             East
>
> Nebraska         Penn State
> Iowa             Ohio State
> Wisconsin        Michigan State
> Illinois         Michigan
> Minnesota        Indiana
> Northwestern     Purdue
>
> This might work better:
>
> Mostly West      Mostly East
>
> Nebraska         Minnesota
> Iowa             Ohio State
> Wisconsin        Michigan State
> Illinois         Michigan
> Penn State       Indiana
> Northwestern     Purdue
>
> I don't think this works well for basketball, though.
>
> Maybe they'll come up with an initial schedule that has Nebraska facing all
> eleven schools at least once in the first two years, though not home/home
> with
> all of them.  That gives them two years to work on expanding beyond 12
> teams (which
> is still likely, especially if Notre Dame decides it wants in), at which
> point
> they would have to come up with a different scheduling process anyway.
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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