What a Big 16 Schedule Would Look Like-NCAA this is Structure!!

Rules:

1) Season length: August 28th-December 16th (13 games) ; Bowl games start December 27th, Playoff starts Jan 1-Tuesday Jan 25th
2) 17 week schedule (2 BYE weeks, 10 Big 16 conference games, 2 championship weeks [ends Dec 16th], 3 Non-conference games)
3) Must play everyone in division, 3 teams from other division
4) Two non-conference games must be from Big 5, other your choice
5) Championship weeks include top 4 records for a four team playoff
6) Winner of Big 16 Automatic Bid to 10 team playoff (5 at large bids for the major 5 conferences [Big 16, SEC, ACC, Pac10, Big 12])
7) Nation's Conference winners receive extra BYE week for winning conference plus #1 @ Large team (i.e. 6 teams get BYE week, don't play on Jan 1 playoff bowl games)


Sample Big 16 Schedule: Indiana University..if we would ever become good

1) Non-Conference game @ Arizona [Pac 10]
2) Home Opener vs Miami (OH)

3) Big 16 Game Away (Illinois)

4) Big 16 Game Home (Iowa)

5) BYE

6) Big 16 East Game Away (Wisconsin)

7) Big 16 Game Home (Notre Dame)

8) Big 16 Game Home (Northwestern)

9) Big 16 East Game Away (Pitt)

10) BYE

11) Non-Conference Top 25 AWAY (ACC Thursday night @ Clemson)

12) Big 16 Home (Nebraska)

13) Big 16 Away (Texas)

14) Big 16 East Home (Penn State)

15) Big 16 game "NATIONAL RIVALRY WEEK" vs Purdue [Satruday 27^th, Thanksgiving Week every year]

Big 16 Semis (championship weekend) December 4th

Big 16 Finals (Thursday night) December 9^th

^{....i will not throw out the Hoosiers to the wolves and feed them to a SEC team}

This season length is perfect in my opinion and the teams that aren't bowl eligible won't be playing past Thanksgiving.  We are starting the year a week earlier and are giving teams an extra BYE week so it cancels it out.  We are in essence planning a RIVALRY WEEK strategically around a holiday b/c families can trash talk and watch their favorite rivalry game with relatives...hoping families went to rival schools Pitt-Penn State, Purdue-IU, etc. so they pay money and go to the game and spend money to help the schools involved, NCAA, economy, etc.

Teams in bowls and the playoff are rewarded to keep playing by all of the money that will be generated from bowl games and playoff...teams are essentially begging for more games to help fund their football program. Reason for playoff is TCU this year/who is going to be left out next year? We made it 10 teams because everything is a top 10 thing and thus the top 10 teams are rewarded

Big 16 Again at a Glance..final answer (added pitt/'cuse)

West

Indiana University

Purdue

Notre Dame

Northwestern

Iowa

Illinois

Nebraska

Texas

East

Pitt

Penn State

Michigan

Michigan State

Wisconsin

Ohio State

Syracuse

Minnesota