What if we could eliminate all of college football's early-season cream puffs?
What if all of the sport's heavyweights no longer played warm-ups against teams from the lesser Football Championship Subdivision or play-for-pay opponents from the Sun Belt Conference?
What if the NCAA expanded its conference challenges in basketball to the football field? We'd have an ACC/Big East Challenge or a Big 12/SEC Challenge.
We'd finally figure out which side of the ball really is better: Big 12 offenses or SEC defenses. We'd find out if Florida State and Miami really have slipped that much, or if the rest of the ACC really is that much better.
We'd find out if the Pac-10 really is USC and everyone else. And if the Big East really is as bad as it sometimes seems.
What would it look like?
Here's one man's guess.
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