Pod Scheduling
by AdamBC on Sep 18, 2011 10:23 AM EDT
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Mentally escaping from the current state of the BC football program I began thinking about the new 16-team inevitability. I started thinking about how to make sure you don't play a team once a decade. I love the idea of the pods because it gives us the following setup:
Pod A: Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4
Pod B: Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4
Pod C: Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4
Pod D: Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 4
In order for the below to work, you need to go a nine game schedule -- which also seems inevitable -- which results in the below. This assumes you are Team 1 in Pod A (or A1 to keep things tidy).
Year 1 schedule:
A2 (home) A3 (away) A4 (home) B1 (home) B2 (away) C1 (away) C2 (home) D1 (home) D2 (away)
Year 2 schedule:
A2 (away) A3 (home) A4 (away) B1 (away) B2 (home) C1 (home) C2 (away) D1 (away) D2 (home)
Year 3 schedule:
A2 (home) A3 (away) A4 (home) B3 (home) B4 (away) C3 (away) C4 (home) D3 (home) D4 (away)
Year 4 schedule:
A2 (away) A3 (home) A4 (away) B3 (away) B4 (home) C3 (home) C4 (away) D3 (away) D4 (home)
If you're a Boston College student, this guarantees that you will see every team in the ACC at Alumni before you graduate. The same can not be said of the current set up, and will be even less so if the ACC goes to two 8-team divisions and maintains the rivalry game - which would mean you play the seven teams in your division, one 'rivalry game' (and perhaps one rotating game that slowly works a home-and-home rotation through the other seven teams in the other division).
The only question the pods create is who goes to the championship game. Do you have a 4-team bracket or do you negotiate two BCS AQ slots and have A play B and C play D to get those two spots?
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Prefer divisions to the pods
Mostly because the 15 and 16 programs that balance out the pods geographically (Rutgers and UConn) offer little value to the conference.
Pod A: Boston College, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Maryland
Pod B: Virginia, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Clemson
Pod C: North Carolina, Duke, N.C. State, Wake Forest
Pod D: Florida State, Miami, TBD 1, TBD 2
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yea but assuming it is UConn and Rutgers as 15 and 16
then wouldnt the pods look something like this:
Pod Northeast: BC, Cuse, UConn, Rutgers
Pod Mid-Atlantic: Pitt, Maryland, Virginia, VT
Pod Carolina: UNC, Duke, N.C. State, Wake
Pod Southeast: Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Miami
or if USF or ECU or UCF or Texas (possibly) was added with UConn it would look like this:
Pod Northeast: BC, Cuse, UConn, Pitt
Pod Mid-Atlantic: Wake, Maryland, Virginia, VT
Pod Carolinas: UNC, Duke, N.C. State, Clemson
Pod Southeast: Georgia Tech, Florida State, Miami, School 16
Or if its Notre Dame and Penn State
Pod Northeast: BC, Cuse, Penn State, Pitt
Pod Mid-Atlantic: Notre Dame, Maryland, Virginia, VT
Pod Carolina: UNC, Duke, N.C. State, Wake
Pod Southeast: Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Miami
Go Orange!!!!!
Pod Northeast: BC, Cuse, UConn, Rutgers
/Shudders.
by Eagle in Brighton on Sep 19, 2011 8:54 AM EDT up reply actions
Divisions
ACC Old Big East: Boston College, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Miami
ACC Original ACC: Florida State, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Duke, N.C. State, North Carolina, Wake Forest
Agree that a nine game schedule is preferred. That puts three teams from the other division on the annual sched, and fully rotate through after 3 seasons.
By grouping teams this way, all current protected cross overs are played annually with the exception of FSU-Miami. Both programs will bitch about this, but after the NCAA has its way with Hurricanes football, will this even still be a point of contention?
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That puts three teams from the other division on the annual sched, and fully rotate through after 3 seasons.
Only if you do ‘all home’ then ‘all away’ every 3 years. Otherwise you’re looking at 6 years before the ‘home and away’ scheduling we currently have brings the team back to Alumni.
Right, but the realignment puts the schools BC is most interested in playing annually — Syracuse, Pitt, Miami, Virginia Tech — on the yearly sched. The only casualty from BC’s perspective would be the BC-Clemson game.
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by Brian Favat on Sep 18, 2011 11:47 AM EDT up reply actions
ACC playoffs
How’s this: 8 game firm rotating game sked (3 intrapod every year, 4 vs another pod which rotates every year, one from other pods.) The ninth game is a flex-sked playoff game between the winners of each pod, the winners of which go to the Dr. Pepper ACC Championship Game Spectacular. The league reaches a flex sked deal to fill out the ninth game for the other non, pod winning schools, by a deal with C-USA or whatever competitive, but second tier league is around, to pair off.
It’d be huge TV, a mini-playoff system, I think
Divisions, not Pods
Seven games against divisional opponents, two games rotating against the other side of the conference that don’t count towards the divisional standings.
Divisional champs play ACCCG in DC or Baltimore. Rinse, wash, repeat.
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by Brian Favat on Sep 18, 2011 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Pods
Here’s a revolutionary idea:
- Home-and-home with the three teams in your pod
- Three games against another pod, on a three-year rotation
The best record from the pod pairings plays in the ACCCG.
For BC, this would be something like home and homes with Pitt, Syracuse and Maryland, then one year against three of the Carolinas. Next year against three of the Southern schools. Final year, against the fourth pod, whomever that ends up being.
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by Brian Favat on Sep 18, 2011 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions
This is almost correct
The best pod schedule is an eight-game schedule. Two pods face off against each other (and form a division), and each team plays one additional game against one team from a different pod.
When the WAC implemented pods for its football schedule, it didn’t work for several reasons, including (1) a lot of mediocre teams, (2) ridiculous geography, and (3) they didn’t rotate every year.
This is basically how the schedule would work:
Year One:
Pod A vs Pod B (7 games)
Pod C vs Pod D (7 games)
Pod A vs Pod C (1 game)
Pod B vs Pod D (1 game)
Year Two:
Pod A vs Pod C (7 games)
Pod D vs Pod B (7 games)
Pod A vs Pod D (1 game)
Pod B vs Pod C (1 game)
Year Three:
Pod A vs Pod D (7 games)
Pod B vs Pod C (7 games)
Pod A vs Pod B (1 game)
Pod D vs Pod C (1 game)
Years four, five, and six are identical to years one, two, and three (respectively) regarding opponents, but the home & away would be reversed.
Every team plays every other conference foe at least one game every three years, some pay two games every three years, and the pod rivals play every year.
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