[82lsju]

of course even with the current system we beat UCLA on consecutive weekends in 2012

Indeed, though that was an entirely avoidable scheduling hiccup that can be fixed with a simple rule: don't schedule games between teams in the opposing division on the last week of the season. That's easy to fix, but I don't think college football fans or decision makers are going to be willing to have a similar rule about rivalry games.

of course Big Game is not our last game of the season (barring a postponement) so we've "solved" that problem for our rivalry game......

and given WSU-UW and OSU-UO are the last weekend of the season we don't have much choice but to play someone from the south (which seems to be UCLA due to the scheduling ND issue for us and USC) in even years or a non-conference game (ND) in odd years

[82lsju]

of course even with the current system we beat UCLA on consecutive weekends in 2012

Indeed, though that was an entirely avoidable scheduling hiccup that can be fixed with a simple rule: don't schedule games between teams in the opposing division on the last week of the season. That's easy to fix, but I don't think college football fans or decision makers are going to be willing to have a similar rule about rivalry games.

of course Big Game is not our last game of the season (barring a postponement) so we've "solved" that problem for our rivalry game......

and given WSU-UW and OSU-UO are the last weekend of the season we don't have much choice but to play someone from the south (which seems to be UCLA due to the scheduling ND issue for us and USC) in even years or a non-conference game (ND) in odd years