Conferences will want the best two teams playing in the championship game for tv ratings and more money. Divisions could hinder that. Go look at the earlier Big 12 championship games, just for one example in like 2004, they had an unranked Colorado play Oklahoma. Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas Tech were by far the three best teams in the conference but all in the same division. Yormak said they were staying with a no-division format last year with the four new additions, I doubt two more will change it.

With scheduling pods East- WVU, UC, UCF and Houston North- KU, K State, Iowa State and CU South- Ok State, Texas Tech, TCU and BU West- BYU, UA, ASU and Utah

Pods of 5, play 4 rivals and rotate the other three pods home-away through a 6-year span. Conversely, 24 teams sets up perfectly for an 11-game conference schedule (endgame here) with 4 divisions of 6, play your 5 rivals and rotate divisions of 6 on the same six year span. When it gets to this point, the B1G and SEC will Insist on their 4 division champs getting auto playoff bids (now 16 team playoff) while giving only 2 auto bids to the highest ranked two conference champs This will go to the Big XII Champ and remaining-reformed ACC or Mountain West champ. There will be 6 at large bids almost all will be taken by P2 league teams, although the Big XII will snag a few here and there. When this iteration of the playoff matures, the P2 (48 teams) will separate themselves financially from the B12 and ACC in all sports and then likely acquire the 16 best basketball programs they do not control to then be able to hold its own 64-team basketball tournament and it will completely sever the football playoff from non-P2 access. All NCAA Tournament (it’s current name) and College Football Playoff money will go to the 64 teams in the SEC and Big XII.

not to mention more difficult time keeping up with the Academics. I know the B1G is doing the same thing, but it doesn’t make us better off. What are we doing to College Athletics right now to get football TV money? I thought Universities were about trying to serve their students for the greater good, not the greater money.

It’s about $$$$$. It appears the only regional conference that will survive is the SEC.

Market too small. Unlike the mother state. Possibly Pitt and Loserville in Big 12 one day.

What you doing with? Ville Pitt Cuse Bc UConn

And Gonzaga for hoops only. This was tweeted by Jason Scheer of Arizona 247 last night. I would have to think any of those would be attractive future adds except for BC of course.

You don't get to play schools in the other division often enough. That's why everyone else is abandoning them.

yet it happened today and the SEC will go there also. The B1G will end up being a mess with travel and schedules - I hope just the travel costs alone for the non-revenue sports eats away at those fat payouts that Northwestern, Rutgers and Maryland are getting.