TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:carolina and virginia need to be in the same division or iwnh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%27s_Oldest_Rivalry
Two and only two protected cross-division rivals:
1) FSU-Miami
2) UVa-UNC
If the protected's play every year, BC would get to play the 5 teams from the other division every other year and the two rivals teams in the other division every 6 years.
If you want to balance it even more, you make FSU-Miami and UVa-UNC semi-protected. Let's face it, these aren't Alabama-Auburn, Texas-Oklahoma, OSU-Michigan rivalries. They're important to the programs but does anyone else care. Let them play guaranteed every 2/3 years. At that rate, everyone plays those rival teams every 4 years and everyone else every 3 or so. If both UNC and UVa football can survive decades of general suckitude, they can survive a downgrade of their rivalry.
I love conference/division realignment talk! Brings out the board-game geek side of me. Diplomacy forever!