College Football Fix : Schedule

In Part 1 of what i would do if I was college football czar I created eight 10 team regions consisting of (arguably) the 80 most deserving programs currently in FBS. Now on to Part 2. The schedule

First off, who doesn’t love college football. Years ago we went from 11 regular season games to 12. Now, I’m going to be moving the regular season games to 13 games. Football, we are told, is getting safer. It is the money driver for all these universities, so why not add another game. Most schools right now get 8 home games, but with this update all schools will have 7 home games, and I’ll get into the breakdown soon.

All schools in each region will play each other, 9 games. 4 home / 5 road in year 1, 5 home / 4 road in year 2. This will be able to crown one true region champion. All regions will have the same tie breakers so that we all know who the region champion is. Not something like one conference having one set of tiebreakers and another having something completely different.

So with 9 games down, there are 4 left to go. Gone will be the days of cupcakes for one conference and harder schedules for others. This will be a more conforming schedule for all.

The first game, regions will be matched up with another region for 10 years at a time. So a school will play each school from another region. These games will be set out for 10 years. (etc. Midwest & Great Lakes)

The next game, 2 regions will be matched up with 2 other regions (etc Midwest/Great Lakes & Atlantic/South East), and the opponents would be selected based on the previous years finish. In year one a Midwest team would play an Atlantic team of similar finish, the next the Midwest team matched up with a South East team. This would happen for 10 years. Schools will not be allowed duplicate opponents over this 10 year stretch. This will allow 10 new opponents over a 10 year time frame. The location would flip from home and away, it would be 5 home and 5 away in the 10 year time frame.

The next game will be a match up against a school from the other set of 4 regions, for a Midwest team it would be vs Gulf Shores, Southwest, Mountain and Pacific. Like the previous game it will be determined from previous years finish and also over the 10 year time frame will be 10 different opponents and it would be 5 home and 5 away in the 10 year time frame.

12 games so far against 12 power 80 teams.

The 13th game on the schedule will be a home game vs the remaining group of 50 school or FCS school. I would schedule this game as the first game of the year as the token “Cupcake” game. It will also be a payday for those schools that didn’t make it into the Power 80.

With all that determined, here are some examples of what schedules would look like (see image)

The dates (using 2019 calendar as example) would look like this

Wk 1 : 8/31

Wk 2 : 9/7

Wk 3 : 9/14

Wk 4 : 9/21

Wk 5 : 9/28

Wk 6 : 10/5

Wk 7 : 10/12

Wk 8 : 10/19

Wk 9 : 10/26

Wk 10 : 11/2

Wk 11 : 11/9

Wk 12 : 11/16

Wk 13 : 11/23

Wk 14 : 11/30

After these 13 games, 8 region champions will be determined. You know have your expanded playoff up to 8.

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