Fixing The College Football Scheduling Problem Means Bringing Back Divisions
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Let's get to part three of today's show. |
| 0:21.6 | And part three of today's show. and I'm curious what you guys are going to think about this. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm going to put some graphics on the board later. |
| 0:28.5 | I don't have those graphics ready just yet. |
| 0:31.6 | But there's a lot of talk in college football about the imbalance schedules. |
| 0:37.8 | There's a lot of talk about teams going away from playing tough non-conference games. |
| 0:43.3 | There's a lot of talk about, you know, how can you really evaluate how good a team is |
| 0:47.5 | because the schedules are so varied in the different leagues. |
| 0:51.2 | You know, you've got a team like Georgia with their schedule, and then you have a |
| 0:55.4 | team like, I mean, some of the Missouri, Tennessee, Vanderbilt that played relatively simple |
| 1:04.1 | schedules last year, finishing the year in the top 25, Vanderbilt finishes top 25. They don't |
| 1:09.1 | beat a single ranked team all year. They still |
| 1:11.3 | win 10 games. Then you have teams like Indiana who played one really good opponent in the regular |
| 1:18.3 | season and two maybe in Iowa. Very soft schedule after that. And then you have a team like Ohio |
| 1:25.0 | State who a couple of years ago had a really tough schedule. But this year, the only really tough game they played all regular season, |
| 1:30.6 | it was against Texas in the non-conference. |
| 1:35.0 | And then you have a team like Wisconsin, who obviously is not one of the top teams. |
| 1:40.7 | And this past year, they had to play Michigan, Iowa, Ohio State, Oregon, Washington, Indiana, |
| 1:46.6 | Illinois, and Minnesota. They played one Big Ten team that didn't make it to a bowl game this |
| 1:53.6 | year. And now is Maryland, a team that beat them. So you look at a schedule like that, and there's such an imbalance schedule in these |
| 2:03.1 | leagues because what they've done is they've gone to where there's no more divisions. |
| 2:08.6 | There's just 16 to 18 teams, and they get these random schedules. Carmon Humphrey just brought |
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