...an extra game for conference divisional match ups. Plus a game for conference championships. So, a team could play as many as 15 games prior to the NCAA football championship tournament, which will eventually expand to 16 teams, meaning the two finalists could play as many as 19 games.
If I'm anywhere near correct here I think that means scholarship limit will need to rise to perhaps as many as 100 to accommodate this longer season. Oh, and before anyone wants to argue the NCAA would never allow such a season on the student-athelete's behalf, don't bother...afterall, where is the profit in that? College football will simply be a mirror of the NFL only its season will start a week or two earlier.
I can see the BIG10 with 24 teams divided into four divisions of six teams each, maybe along lines such as this....
ATLANTIC
Rutgers
Maryland
Pittsburgh
Penn State
West Virginia
Syracuse
NORTH
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Northwestern
Indiana
Purdue
CENTRAL
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Notre Dame
Nebraska
Minnesota
WEST
USC
UCLA
Oregon
Washington
Stanford
CAL
If I'm anywhere near correct here I think that means scholarship limit will need to rise to perhaps as many as 100 to accommodate this longer season. Oh, and before anyone wants to argue the NCAA would never allow such a season on the student-athelete's behalf, don't bother...afterall, where is the profit in that? College football will simply be a mirror of the NFL only its season will start a week or two earlier.
I can see the BIG10 with 24 teams divided into four divisions of six teams each, maybe along lines such as this....
ATLANTIC
Rutgers
Maryland
Pittsburgh
Penn State
West Virginia
Syracuse
NORTH
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Northwestern
Indiana
Purdue
CENTRAL
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Notre Dame
Nebraska
Minnesota
WEST
USC
UCLA
Oregon
Washington
Stanford
CAL