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Conference realignment: Scheduling undergoes overhaul

Following the 2013 season, when college football moved from the Bowl Championship Series to the new College Football Playoff, fans and pundits alike lauded the move as a step in the right direction. While installing a playoff system was the right choice, a four-team playoff simply isn’t sufficient for the new world of college football.

There’s a lot of debate about what teams should and shouldn’t make it into the college football playoff, and with five power conferences and four spots, it creates potential for major problems to occur.

Last week in the conference realignment series, we laid out the four conferences and the 72 teams that populate them.