(01-02-2019 12:36 AM)JRsec Wrote:  A note of consequence for readers of this thread.

Alabama, Auburn, and Mississippi State are now all R1 Carnegie schools making every member of the SEC R1 Carnegie schools.

Also being added to the ranks of R1 Carnegie schools is Oklahoma State. That means the academic objections to the Cowboys would now be nullified. Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State are all R1 and Texas is also AAU.

I think this opens up options a wee bit with regard to which schools from the Big 12 might ever be considered for membership. Only T.C.U. and Baylor from the Big 12 now fail to be R1 schools, while the only other P5 conference with a member not in that designation is the ACC where Wake Forest is not R1.

I like those 4 although I don't particularly like the structure of 18.

If we threw in Kansas and Iowa State then I think we could create a model that benefits us on multiple levels.

Midwest: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa State
Southwest: Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Arkansas, LSU
South: Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama, Auburn, Vanderbilt
East: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky

- You could play 4 division games.
- One permanent rival from each of the other divisions.
- One rotating opponent from each of the other divisions.

That's 10 games so you've got 5 home and 5 away every year as far as conference games. From there, you could do conference semis or a system of tiebreakers that determine the top 2 for Atlanta.