I really don't understand this. I don't see what advantage is gained if you have 2 teams and you play against yourself in a regular season game. The possibility exists that if you have 2 teams in the same division you will play in the NT, and obviously that can't violate the fair play guidelines, so why would a regular season game with much smaller stakes? 

because you can artificially inflate the RPI or record of one school. 

exactly. its retarded though, i mean, almost all the coaches competitive enough to want multiple teams in the same world, they DONT want a win on one team and a loss on the other. its not advantageous, they could play different guys and win both. it seems so obviously for-fun, kind of a shame the rules get in the way of that.

Posted by trobone on 8/28/2013 11:58:00 AM (view original):
because you can artificially inflate the RPI or record of one school. 

Yea, but not the other. As gil pointed out if you have 2 teams in the same world, odds are you're really competitive and don't actually want to hurt either team. It's advantageous to the winning team but not the losing team. I get that it's possible to throw the game, for example I could have Pepperdine play UNC, and do something like take my 5 worst UNC players and set the depth chart so they play all 40 minutes, and give the worst scorer all the distro, so Pepperdine could get the win. But this would obviously be throwing the game and there's already a rule in place to prevent losing on purpose.