Welcome to the first of a three-part series Hustle Belt is doing on reorganizing the college football landscape. Ridiculous! But fun. First, we’re going to take on an idea from somebody else, but apply it to our lowly [awesome] conference. Last summer, SBNation’s Bill Connelly proposed that P5 conferences do away with divisions in favor of protected matchups each year. The idea here is the protected games preserve rivalries/trophy games, and ensure that teams within a conference play each other more frequently. (It’s kind of ridiculous that you only play a team from another division like once every four years.
Football Offseason Boredom, Part 1: Blowup the divisions
