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Conference challenge comes to gridiron

By Mark Schlabach
ESPN.com

Friday, June 12, 2009

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 ...

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