[jacket3ree]

Larry at work and I white-boarded something similar during the conference realignment frenzy. However, we went by an 8 (conference) x 10 team model and included a mandatory 9 round robin conference schedule to select each of 8 playoff participants with 3 non-conference games to help with overall seeding by conference power ranking. And for kickass intersectional matchups that don't kill playoff hopes. Now, everything is intersectional all the time. No conference championship games, which are unnecessary with round robin. We also added relegation to make sure that anyone who wants in on playoff football can earn their way into the playoff by winning games and ultimately their conference. Each of the 8 conferences would have a line below the tenth team. Fall below that line and become relegated. Maybe we were watching too much Ted Lasso at the time.

There is a remarkable similarity to some of our conference names. I'm starting to wonder if Larry's office is bugged.

Pacific
Mountain
Plains
Great Lakes
Northeast
Mid Atlantic
Mid South
Southeast

[jacket3ree]

Larry at work and I white-boarded something similar during the conference realignment frenzy. However, we went by an 8 (conference) x 10 team model and included a mandatory 9 round robin conference schedule to select each of 8 playoff participants with 3 non-conference games to help with overall seeding by conference power ranking. And for kickass intersectional matchups that don't kill playoff hopes. Now, everything is intersectional all the time. No conference championship games, which are unnecessary with round robin. We also added relegation to make sure that anyone who wants in on playoff football can earn their way into the playoff by winning games and ultimately their conference. Each of the 8 conferences would have a line below the tenth team. Fall below that line and become relegated. Maybe we were watching too much Ted Lasso at the time.

There is a remarkable similarity to some of our conference names. I'm starting to wonder if Larry's office is bugged.

Pacific
Mountain
Plains
Great Lakes
Northeast
Mid Atlantic
Mid South
Southeast