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[QUOTE="woomba, post: 660167, member: 3605"]
Current NCAA rules dictate a CCG may only be played for conferences 12+ that are divided into divisions that play round-robin within the division, so that break up won't work. Uneven divisions can theoretically work but will be hard to get buy in from all Big Ten members because this will mean that the Western members will be playing Michigan/OSU/Penn State even fewer times for at least a decade.
 
The reason why the 16-team pod system can work is because they can theoretically combine 2 pods to form a division for each season and play round robin, which still falls under the current rules.
 
I don't think it'll be trivial to get the official rule changed since you'll first need to prove why the division setup isn't sufficient to crown a conference champion - assuming 9 conf games a year the current system scales nicely to 20-member conferences - it's only once you get above that number that the system breaks down and I don't think any conference is seriously going up that high.
 
I guess if D4 becomes a reality and comes with new rules that changes this equation your scenario can work though.
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