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A major issue that needs addressed is what the universities will do with the length of the regular season schedule. Div 1-AA teams play a 10 game max regular season schedule. Will the Div 1 schools likewise reduce their regular season schedules to a max of 10? 11? A reduction in the number of games would most likely come from the OOC schedule. And for most of the larger Div 1 programs, OOC games tend to be home games. The end result is a great deal of lost revenue for the schools that at least do not make the playoffs. Given the fact that in a great number of cases football revenues support the remainder of a university's athletic programs, there will be quite a bit of resistance by many universities to reduce the number of regular season games.
It would be easy to say the Div 1 schools could keep th eregular season as it is with a chance of some teams playing up to 16 games when factoring in playoff games. That is going to be a hard sell to the administrators.
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