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It worked for lots of Hollywood movie producers; how about for the American this year?

If Tulsa plays next weekend and emerges with a victory, just cancel Cincinnati at Tulsa and prepare early for the CCG on ABC a week later. With crowd restrictions and a small stadium/low attendance potential, Tulsa can count on financial losses hosting Cincinnati. Simply put Tulsa into the larger venue (Nippert) a week later for all the marbles pitting two teams that haven't lost in conference all season.

In that scenario, both teams preserve their CFP rankings until the CCG which is a great storyline for the AAC's P6 branding. A single game played at the home field of the higher ranked team then decides the conference championship with that NY6 berth or possibly a CFP appearance awaiting Cincinnati. With students gone for the semester, UC could actually have time to promote this and sell tickets (up to whatever limit OH has in place by that date) enabling at least some of our fans to finally participate in this amazing season. The setting in historic Nippert would be excellent and UC would have time to embellish the field and stadium more creatively for the showdown. Even more, billboards and light post banners uptown and downtown could be produced and displayed with that lead time to mark a first in Cincinnati sports history.

A regular season game in Tulsa, if Cincinnati prevails, leaves little time to promote the CCG a week later. That one loss Tulsa (in conference) then tumbles out of the top 25 making the CCG a lot less interesting for the national TV audience.

Other conferences have patchwork schedules already. Is this so crazy? Thoughts?