I know ELA is running his pac-man video game season, but isn't 2020 a simulation in reality? For those of you unfamiliar with the NCAA football video game, you can basically play god when it comes to realignment. And what do we have this year?
The American, ACC, and MWC dropped divisions.
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You can simulate up to 30 seasons into the future (I believe) in the video game, and players know that some programs tend to consistently rise and others tend to fall, upon many simulations. We have plenty of oddities in 2020, such as:
Florida State is 1-6 in the ACC
Cincinnati, Indiana, Marshall, Liberty, Buffalo, San Jose State, Coastal Carolina, and Louisiana are a combined 55-3
Penn State is 1-5
Defending NC LSU is 3-4 and has allowed as many points as it's scored
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And then, the scheduling! You can change your OOC schedule in the video game, or play whoever you want as an independent, but oh, the inequities this year!
Teams like NC State and UT-San Antonio have played 10 games.
Arizona State has played 1 game. It's December 5th.
Division mates N'Western and Wisconsin have played 6 and 3 games, respectively.
Notre Dame sits atop the ACC standings.
While no (or few) OOC games have meant no layups for P5 programs, it's also led to fewer losses from G5 teams - hence the 55-3 combined record of the teams listed above.
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Idk, it's just as if we're in year 12 of a simulation and down is up and up is down. But hey, Alabama is #1, so that can act as our inception totem to know we're in the real world.
