(10-19-2019 09:11 PM)goofus Wrote:  I have a hunch that the Big Ten will want to go with a divisionless format in 2022 where the top 2 teams make the CCG.

Right now the Big Ten is working it's way through a 6-year rotation that runs from 2016 to 2021. During that 6-year period, everybody will play everybody else at least 2 times, playing everybody at least once at home and once away. Once that 6-year rotation is done, I think at that point the Big Ten will want to be done with divisions.

So it makes sense that 2022 will be the year that the NCAA changes the CCG rules permanently to allow for the 2 best teams to make the CCG in a divisionless conference. It's just that there will be some specific rules like

1) elligible members must play at least 8 conference games.
2) conferences must have at least 10 football members
3) all members must play all other members at least once every 6 years.

No need to require a conference to have 10 football teams to have a CCG. There is already a rule that requires each FBS conference to have at least 8 full members that play football in the conference.

There should be a requirement that any conference that has a CCG and no divisions match the top 2 teams in the regular season conference standings in a CCG. They can break ties for first or second place in any reasonable way, but there's no good reason for a conference to choose any two teams to play in a CCG. This should be a CFP requirement rather than an NCAA requirement -- in other words, if you want the CFP to recognize your conference champ for the purpose of CFP bowl qualification, then your CCG must be a game between either your regular season top 2 or between the winners of your 2 divisions.