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After reportedly telling the Mountain West Conference that it intended to leave the conference, San Diego State will reportedly remain in the Mountain West. ....
The conference is meeting this week to figure out its 2024+ scheduling. It seems they're already leaning towards doing away with divisions, and now only need to decide how to protect rivalries. So let's discuss the different ways they might do things, what's best for fans, the conference, and Michigan. DIVISIONS? Seem to be a dead letter. The result of the February meeting established two core tenets for their scheduling, in order: Do whatever we can to get teams in the (12-team) College Football Playoff. Every four-year player should get to play on every B10 campus at least once. This was well-received, and means they are almost certainly heading towards a divisionless system with a championship game. Removing divisions effectually takes Big Ten teams from their current six protected rivalries to between one and three, freeing up those games to see the rest of their conference opponents. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME? SHOWCASE?!?! Now would be a good time to implement my alternate ....