... plus four colleges unaffiliated with a conference.
(Known as the I-A Independents)
There are 119 colleges in the United States that play top-level (Division I-A) football.


My proposal is:
All teams play a 12-game regular season. This includes games against all teams in their own conference.

Conferences fielding eight teams:
play all seven opponents once (7), three opponents a second time (10), and one (designated as a rival) two more times after that (12).

These conferences can theoretically be split into two divisions of four to ease scheduling, and decide on who the real rivals are.

Conferences fielding nine teams:
Are split into three groups of three.

They play the...

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