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Running this exercise right now is fruitless.

The BIG will be at 24 schools in short order.

gross

Agree, but so will the SEC.

Another possibility is the football model in Europe.

You have 24 schools - 12 in the upper division and 12 in the lower division.

Maybe 2-3 schools per year change divisions based on a 4-5 year performance metric. Could be interesting.

Oh great, here we go with the relegation talk again.

Come on man, surely you understand the difference between professional sporting organizations in Europe that are solely focused on one single sport, and collegiate sporting organizations in the USA that support between 10 and 30 sports?

ADs can't tolerate the kind of inconsistency in revenue streams involved in relegation/promotion.  They need to understand what their income is going to be looking 10-20 years into the future.  Look no further than the current dire situation of the PAC leftovers for an example of the devastation that's going to occur when your revenue gets cut by half or more.

The only way relegation/promotion would work in college athletics, is if those 12 lower division schools in your example are paid exactly the same as the 12 upper division schools.  So the only difference is in level of competition, but not in compensation.

Otherwise there's zero chance a university AD or president is going to vote for it, knowing that his own school could potentially be relegated and lose all that money.  No way that happens.

It could work if Chip Kelly and I get our way.

deal killer for helmets in the SEC and B1G

A recent report states that the Big Ten Conference will be expanding the number of league games per season. Our colleagues at Spartans Wire have reported that the Big Ten will “most likely be moving to (ten) 10 conference games with the additions of the Ducks and Huskies.”

It’s also unknown when this change would occur if it does indeed happen.

A recent report states that the Big Ten Conference will be expanding the number of league games per season. Our colleagues at Spartans Wire have reported that the Big Ten will “most likely be moving to (ten) 10 conference games with the additions of the Ducks and Huskies.”

It’s also unknown when this change would occur if it does indeed happen.

If true  I would guess 2026 at the earliest for 10 conference games.  

SO FOR 2024-2025 with just 9 games, they can set it up so that everybody has 3 teams they play twice, 12 teams they play once and 2 teams they skip.

Then in 2026-2029 go to the 3 + 7/7 rotation for 4 years. 

Of course I am assuming the Big Ten has already negotiated this all with the TV networks to get extra money for all these extra games.