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* The next wave of realignment prompts an arms race between the Big Ten and SEC to reach 20 members
* The SEC adds Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, and Miami/Virginia Tech
* The Big Ten responds by adding Oregon, Washington, Stanford, and Notre Dame/Cal
* A new pod system is adopted as a long term solution to the super conference's scheduling predicament
* This includes four different 5-member pods within the Big Ten and SEC
* In Stanford's case, our particular Big Ten pod would include USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington
* Both conferences adopt a 4-2-2-2 conference schedule, including four games against your own pod and two games from every other respective pod
* This ensures that every school plays every other school in their conference at least once within a three year span
* The 10-game conference schedule, while unprecedented, would eliminate the need for 3+ OOC games since all the revenue-generating power players would now be consolidated to within two conferences
* The two highest ranked teams from each conference compete in the conference championship game
* The Big Ten CCG will be played in the Rose Bowl while the SEC CCG will be played in the Peach Bowl
* With the remaining Pac-12 / Big 12 / ACC members left in the dust, two 14-20 team super conferences are formed from the remains (possibly with the addition of a few top tier programs from the Mountain West/AAC)
* Those smaller conferences would also conform to the 10-game conference scheduling format in order to conform to the orthodoxy of the transformed football landscape
* The following is a rough guess as what the pods would look like:
BIG TEN
North
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Northwestern
Ohio State
Central
Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Atlantic
Maryland
Notre Dame
Penn State
Purdue
Rutgers
Pacific
Oregon
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Washington
SEC
North
Kentucky
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
South
Alabama
Auburn
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State
East
Clemson
Florida
Florida State
Georgia
Miami
West
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
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* The next wave of realignment prompts an arms race between the Big Ten and SEC to reach 20 members
* The SEC adds Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina, and Miami/Virginia Tech
* The Big Ten responds by adding Oregon, Washington, Stanford, and Notre Dame/Cal
* A new pod system is adopted as a long term solution to the super conference's scheduling predicament
* This includes four different 5-member pods within the Big Ten and SEC
* In Stanford's case, our particular Big Ten pod would include USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington
* Both conferences adopt a 4-2-2-2 conference schedule, including four games against your own pod and two games from every other respective pod
* This ensures that every school plays every other school in their conference at least once within a three year span
* The 10-game conference schedule, while unprecedented, would eliminate the need for 3+ OOC games since all the revenue-generating power players would now be consolidated to within two conferences
* The two highest ranked teams from each conference compete in the conference championship game
* The Big Ten CCG will be played in the Rose Bowl while the SEC CCG will be played in the Peach Bowl
* With the remaining Pac-12 / Big 12 / ACC members left in the dust, two 14-20 team super conferences are formed from the remains (possibly with the addition of a few top tier programs from the Mountain West/AAC)
* Those smaller conferences would also conform to the 10-game conference scheduling format in order to conform to the orthodoxy of the transformed football landscape
* The following is a rough guess as what the pods would look like:
BIG TEN
North
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Northwestern
Ohio State
Central
Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Atlantic
Maryland
Notre Dame
Penn State
Purdue
Rutgers
Pacific
Oregon
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Washington
SEC
North
Kentucky
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
South
Alabama
Auburn
LSU
Mississippi
Mississippi State
East
Clemson
Florida
Florida State
Georgia
Miami
West
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
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