Since this is just me having an ACC wet dream, let’s keep the FSU and Clemson to the Big12 talk out of it and pretend with me.

The pod divisions have been mentioned before, but let’s do it again so as to lay the foundation for the complete idea i’m about to pitch:

Pod A:
1 FSU
2 Clemson
3 UMd
4 Wake

Pod B:
1 Miami
2 GT
3 Navy / Louisville
4 NCSU

Pod C:
1 UVA
2 VT
3 Pitt
4 UNC

Pod D:
1 Syracuse
2 Boston College
3 Notre Dame
4 Duke

All the schools in the same division play one another and also the schools assigned to the same number play each other annually. You will see that the North Carolina schools are back to playing each other annually which seems to especially be a big deal to those schools. I think I got all the important rivalries covered and more of the games fans want to see most.

The ACC goes to a 7 game schedule which allows Notre Dame to still maintain it’s games with Michigan, MSU, Purdue, USC and Stanford. Yes it means that it will take 18 years for a school to play everybody else twice, but it does not have to be a bad thing.

The championship game will actually be a 4 game playoff between the division winners and seeded 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. Both semi-final games will be played in Charlotte in consecutive weeks or in the same week with a game in Charlotte and the other in D.C.

Now here is the kicker, the ACC Championship game will be the Orange bowl, the 3 other division winners will fill the Chick-Fil-A, Belk and Champs bowls.

In the case the ACC has a team selected to play in the National Championship playoffs or whatever they want to call it, that school will automatically be declared the winner of the ACC and the Orange bowl will take an at large school from a different conference to play the ACC representative. The CFA, Belk and Champs bowl will take the remaining division winners and any 1 bowl eligible ACC team.

You do waayyyyyyyyy too much thinking about this.

I’ve actually been thinking about this as well with all the talk of conferences “wanting” to expand to 16 teams.  The pod system could work very well.  One of the only draw backs I see to this is that you’d probably have teams going to the semifinals, finals, then the BCS semifinals and BCS Finals if we had a playoff system.  I think this would negate a lot of the argument then for a 16 team playoff but you might also have a team that gets hot and knocks out a really good team in the conference semifinals and that team would probably get left out of the BCS playoffs.

All in all though, I think it would be the ideal way to go

I wish I had one of those phones like Batman has with Commissioner Gordon where you don’t have to dial the number, it’s just John Swofford on the other end of it. I can tell him these things, the ACC would already have Notre Dame and be making $100 Billion a year.

I think it is pretty obvious where this is heading..

The Winner of the Rose Bowl (B1G vs Pac 12), The Winner of the New Big 12/SEC game and perhaps a few wild cards will eventually be the tournament that determines the National title

CU_Tigers4life - 26 May 2012 12:30 PM

I think it is pretty obvious where this is heading..

The Winner of the Rose Bowl (B1G vs Pac 12), The Winner of the New Big 12/SEC game and perhaps a few wild cards will eventually be the tournament that determines the National title

There will be a major anti trust suit if those four conference try to keep everyone else out. And they will lose.

I believe the whole conference champ thing is to force ND’s hand and make them join.

I too think the pod thing would work and have outlined mine before on here.

WHEN ND and UConn join they can be in the ACC North with BC and Syracuse.

ACC Mid Atlantic will be VT UVA MD and Pitt

ACC Carolina will be the NC schools

ACC South will be Clemson, FSU, Miami and GT.

The four best records advance and everyone plays their pod plus 2 from each other pod.

I just found out that the NCAA does not allow divisions with less than 6 schools, maybe there is a loop hole out there that can be exploited?