Here's a bold plan if you're the AAC (football divisions, promotion/relegation)

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you make sure that Houston will play all the top teams in your conference, making for a much better case for a hypothetical undefeated Houston.

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Except your're just making sure they play the top teams from the previous year

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Except your're just making sure they play the top teams from the previous year

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Well last year's good teams are more likely than last year's bad teams to be good teams, no? Doing this either increases your chances of getting in a playoff, decreases your chances of getting in a playoff, or does neither.

True, and it probably would help to not have the dregs of the conference dragging your SOS down.

Ultimately I think it will be more important to the committee that the AAC champ runs the table and has at least one marquee win (like Houston over OU this year).

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This will never happen but I wish there was relegation confrance between the best teams in Mountain west and American.

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fify but hey here's an idea. UAB is coming back, and Coastal Carolina is moving up, and Idaho and New Mexico State are leaving the Sun Belt, which leaves the AAC, C-USA, and Sun Belt with a combined 36 teams, which is perfect.

Marshall was the worst C-USA team, and UAB is just now coming back, so let's relegate them to the Sun Belt and do the same thing I mentioned in the OP, but across all three conferences:

AAC-A: Temple (7-1), Navy (7-1), South Florida (7-1), Tulsa (6-2), Houston (5-3), Memphis (5-3)
AAC-B: Central Florida (4-4), Southern Methodist (3-5), Cincinnati (1-7), Tulane (1-7), East Carolina (1-7), Connecticut (1-7)

USA-C: Western Kentucky (7-1), Old Dominion (7-1), Louisiana Tech (6-2), Middle Tennessee State (5-3), Texas-San Antonio (5-3), Southern Mississippi (4-4)
USA-D: Florida International (4-4), North Texas (3-5), Charlotte (3-5), Texas-El Paso (2-6), Marshall (2-6), Rice (2-6)

Sun Belt-E: Florida Atlantic (2-6 C-USA), Alabama-Birmingham (n/a), Appalachian State (7-1), Arkansas State (7-1), Troy (6-2), Louisiana-Lafayette (5-3)
Sun Belt-F: Georgia Southern (4-4), Louisiana-Monroe (3-5), Georgia State (2-6), South Alabama (2-6), Texas State (0-8), Coastal Carolina (n/a)


Relegate two spots between each division. That is, if these standings hold up:
- Memphis and Houston would drop from A to B
- Central Florida and SMU would go from B to A
- ECU and UConn would drop from B to C
- WKU and ODU would go from C to B
- UTSA and USM would drop from C to D
- FIU and UNT would go from D to C
- Marshall and Rice would drop from D to E
- FAU and UAB would go from E to D
- Troy and ULL would drop from E to F
- GSo and ULM would go from F to E

You could have a deal where an AAC team would get home games against their USA&SBC Counterparts, and the SBC teams would visit theirs, and each USA team would go to USA and host SBC:

Temple - WKU - FAU
Navy - ODU - UAB
USF - LT - Appy
Tulsa - MTSU - Arky State
Houston - UTSA - Troy
Memphis - USM - ULL
UCF - FIU - GSo
SMU - UNT - ULM
Cincy - UNCC - GSt
Tulane - UTEP - USA
ECU - Marshall - Texas State
UConn - Rice - Coastal

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Well last year's good teams are more likely than last year's bad teams to be good teams, no?

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idk, let's see what the rankings have looked like the past few years. I bet a decent bit who ended up with great seasons would have started in "B"

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does it really matter how many games a "cupcake" "rent-a-win" gets?

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Yes, it absolutely does, and 2004 is a great example. Bowling Green canceled with Auburn and played Oklahoma. Meanwhile, Auburn replaced the Falcons with the Citadel. By merely a hair, Oklahoma gleaned a better computer rating than Auburn and went on to get slaughtered by (vacated) in the Orange Bowl.

That wasn't the question.

The question is whether this increases the chances of an undefeated team getting in, not whether or not it was possible for a team to get in with the status quo in a specific year.

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because you decrease your chances of going undefeated as well as decrease your chances of making the playoffs.

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A) not sure that it decreases the playoff chances
B) It increases the chances of a one-loss team getting in immensely, which the status quo all but prevents.

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Yes, it absolutely does, and 2004 is a great example. Bowling Green canceled with Auburn and played Oklahoma. Meanwhile, Auburn replaced the Falcons with the Citadel. By merely a hair, Oklahoma gleaned a better computer rating than Auburn and went on to get slaughtered by USC in the Orange Bowl.

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glad we have humans choosing now who see through asinine bullshite... and take more than 2 teams