I was reading something on another site that talked about having the first game of each season reserved for a conference challenge. Each season save the first game and have the first place team of two conference play each other, the number 2s play and so on. I was wondering how that would look.
I’m not going to play the expectations and prediction game with it though. Just putting it out there to see what would the schedule would look like for that opening day.
Also due to the divisions I am going to use bowls and overall records to determine if the # 4 team in one division might be better than #3 from the other. I may be a little off by the match ups should still work out.
Each line represents potential match-ups. Just pick 2 conferences and see how they match up.
This years opening weekend would look like this
Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, LSU, Ohio State, USC, West Virginia
Clemson, Kansas, Georgia, Illinois, Arizona State, Connecticut
Virginia, Missouri, Florida, Michigan, Oregon State, Cincinnati
Boston College, Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Oregon, South Florida
Florida State, Texas Tech, Arkansas, Penn State, UCLA, Rutgers
Wake Forest, Oklahoma State, Auburn, Iowa, Arizona, Louisville
Maryland, Texas A&M, Kentucky, Purdue, Cal, Pitt
Georgia Tech, Colorado, Mississippi State, Indiana, Washington State, Syracuse
North Carolina State, Kansas State, Alabama, Michigan State, Stanford
North Carolina, Nebraska, South Carolina, Northwestern, Washington
Miami, Iowa State, Vanderbilt, Minnesota
Duke, Baylor, Ole Miss
Personally I would love to see Oregon play any of those.
1) Rematches-Games we saw last season
1. West Virginia vs. Oklahoma bowl
2. Virginia Tech vs. LSU seasons
3. Ohio State vs. LSU bowl
4. Oregon State vs. Cincinnati season
5. Florida vs. Michigan bowl
6. Wisconsin vs. Tennessee bowl
7. Oregon vs. South Florida bowl
8. South Carolina vs. North Carolina season
All but the last one involved the top 4.
2) Actually happening (although not in the first week)
1. Ohio State vs. USC
2. Georgia vs. Arizona State
3. Georgia Tech vs. Mississippi State
4. Maryland vs. Cal
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2 months ago
not to sound flippant, but we do this every season, only at the end of the season. They are called Bowl games. OK that sounded flippant, but I really didn't mean it to... :)
from 2 months ago
If you notice there were only 5 bowl rematches. The rest of the bowls do not match up soundly. They are always like the # 2 team from conference A playing the #5 from conference B. besides which there are no 2 conferences that have all their bowls with each other. What I was trying to say here is have 2 conferences play eachother #1 vs #1 all the way to #12 vs #12. That would also include those teams that didnt get a bowl.
2 months ago
This being the first game might not be a good indicator. You know working out all the kinks and things. Maybe after 5 or 6 games. Or like someone else said at the end. BOWLS.
from 2 months ago
I could see that but at the same time to inerupt conference play like that would be kind of weird. Bowls woulndt be good because the lower teams need to be involved for their to be a fair top to bottome comparison.
2 months ago
They do this in college bball- the ACC/Big 10 challenge- Always look forward to that (even though the ACC has won 9 straight years or since the inception of the challenge LOL)
from 2 months ago
thats kind of what i was going for here but didnt want to just single out 2 conferences
2 months ago
they now have an sec big east bowl so now when we win it 5 years running we will all know the sec is not that tough
about 13 hours ago
A few months after this article has written, you can see how things change. PSU is great, Wisconsin sucks, West Virginia sucks, Clemson sucks, and I could go on and on. This is what makes college football so great and unpredictable.
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