(09-09-2019 12:45 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-09-2019 12:08 AM)AllTideUp Wrote:  One has to wonder how the politics of OU's move might change with Boren gone. Then again, I suppose the real power is with the Legislature and they probably wouldn't see things any differently.

But if we're divisionless then I can't really think of a reason why 20 is an inherently better number than 18. As long as you've got even numbers, that's what will matter. My issue with 18 in the past has been the difficulty in creating 3 divisions. Strike out the divisions and it shouldn't matter.

Divisionless with 18 you could easily do this:

9 conference games. 4 permanent rivals and rotate 5 games a year from the other 13. That still leaves you with 3 OOC games.

Or,
9 conference games. 3 permanent rivals and rotate 6 games a year from the other 14. That still leaves you with 3 OOC games.

Place an initial limit of two G5 opponents and 1 OOC P Game and you have it. No FCS.

That way Texas has 4 home conference games on the low year with a home P OOC game, and the next year 5 home conference games with no OOC P game. To that they add two Texas G5 schools and now they are playing 7 games in state plus the RRR if kept in Dallas. That's the deal closer!

I would go with 5 permanent games just so a lot of secondary rivalries can be preserved. Rotate the other 4 among the remaining 12 and everyone can play at least once every 3 years. I think the other benefit there is that the rotating games can maintain a little more congruency.