B1G Thoughts: A 3-6-6 scheduling model for a 16-team Big Ten

College Football is a giant that refuses to sleep. In the last few months, rumors have swirled that the Power Five was going to get rid of divisions, allowing teams to create scheduling pods that would allow the two best teams to play in the conference title game while allowing everyone to play each other more frequently.

Conferences with divisions have grown stagnant, leading to out-of-division opponents playing each other once or twice every 10 years. This problem existed through all of football, but especially the ACC, Big Ten and SEC — conferences with 14 or more teams. The ACC set up was so bad that Wake Forest and UNC had to set up out of conference games against once another just so…