12 and a conf title game on the top team's home field will work for you guys. The MAC has one, at least you guys in the south actually like college football.

I think the Alliance is going to take a Fla school(all sports) and Temple for fb only, meaning Mr. Peanut is going to take 3 fb schools. La Tech is easily #1 even though you all hate them. 2 is UTSA. 3 Either Texas St. or App St. or Georgia St., you have to weigh the on field talent vs market, yada yada. Also I think he'll want to add another non fb member to balance out UALR. Is UTA a no go because of UNT? I bet Mr.Peanut will push for them. I don't think you want Denver back(too far).

MAC plays neutral site to mostly empty seats.

CUSA plays at a campus site and crowds have range from great to "oh wow that's at their home field and not a neutral site?!?!

Pac-12 plays at campus and the sales were pretty sluggish.

ACC plays neutral site and more often than not the crowds have been poor. Big 12 had the same experience.

Big 10 and SEC are the only leagues that can play neutral site and consistently sell tickets.

There is no mandate for a title game and I think there are some creative ways to address the matter without a title game.

You can remain committed to playing a nine game schedule which means there are only two teams you don't play. The chances of a tie not involving teams that have played are slim and if you can't break the tie, you use the BCS rankings.

You can go a step further if the new BCS will involve a method for others to break in. If that happens you don't play divisions instead you create two schedule pools. Pool Red the six highest rated in the BCS the year before and Pool Blue the six lowest rated. You make sure everyone in Red plays each other and everyone in Blue plays each other. That gives you five games and then you play three from the other Pool trying to respect geography as much as possible. That gives you the highest probability of the champion having a strong enough strength of schedule to break in (assuming the champion comes out of the Red pool).

(02-17-2012 06:07 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  MAC plays neutral site to mostly empty seats.

CUSA plays at a campus site and crowds have range from great to "oh wow that's at their home field and not a neutral site?!?!

Pac-12 plays at campus and the sales were pretty sluggish.

ACC plays neutral site and more often than not the crowds have been poor. Big 12 had the same experience.

Big 10 and SEC are the only leagues that can play neutral site and consistently sell tickets.

There is no mandate for a title game and I think there are some creative ways to address the matter without a title game.

You can remain committed to playing a nine game schedule which means there are only two teams you don't play. The chances of a tie not involving teams that have played are slim and if you can't break the tie, you use the BCS rankings.

You can go a step further if the new BCS will involve a method for others to break in. If that happens you don't play divisions instead you create two schedule pools. Pool Red the six highest rated in the BCS the year before and Pool Blue the six lowest rated. You make sure everyone in Red plays each other and everyone in Blue plays each other. That gives you five games and then you play three from the other Pool trying to respect geography as much as possible. That gives you the highest probability of the champion having a strong enough strength of schedule to break in (assuming the champion comes out of the Red pool).

most of the bowl games look the same as those title games. At least this would to be to win an actual championship(conf). You'd get tv time and money from espn for it. Exposure on national tv is always good. That's why so many schools play on tues, wed, thur, fri.