It could be 16 teams with four divisions. You play each team in your division plus 2 from each of the other divisions. That's 9 games allowing for 3 OOC games every year.
Northern Division:
Notre Dame
Michigan
Ohio State
Penn State
Southern Division:
Clemson
Georgia Tech
Miami
Florida State
Central Division:
Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Western Division:
USC
Stanford
Washington
Colorado
Maybe too late to grab Texas and Oklahoma but, you could substitute A&M and Oklahoma State. With this alignment you could keep the travel reasonable. You would only have to travel to 3 games "out of your region". The conference would blanket the country and have a heavy presence in all of the recruiting hotbeds. Hell, why not steal LSU from the SEC to replace Oklahoma State?
Unis are going to have a tough time keeping the doors open, much less maintain their ADs as presently configured. So why not drop the sports that just don't make enough money to sustain themselves, focus on one that possible can do so. The one P5 that is in real economic trouble is the PAC12...
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