It’s Time for the AAC to Change Its Scheduling Model

For years now, the SEC has had a major scheduling issue. At fourteen teams in two divisions, it can easily be a decade before one school visits every campus in football. The B1G 10 and ACC have the same problem. It’s so bad in the ACC that North Carolina and Wake Forest, teams that share the same state and conference, agreed to an out-of-conference game to make sure they actually played one another.

Now that the SEC has expanded to sixteen teams, keeping divisions is simply impractical. According to Iowa athletic director Gary Barta, the B1G 10 is looking into new scheduling formats too.

Think about it like this. Fanbases are currently bored with playing the same teams every year and want to…