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There's only so much that can be done unless the NCAA wants to push play outside of conference. They could do it if they wanted to and should considering that the NCAA tournament is built on the idea of Cinderella teams having a chance at upsetting (and not always an upset) of a P5 conference team. If you make it so only the P5 conference teams are in the tournament, viewership will dramatically decrease. Of course, the non-P5 conferences should be setting up either neutral site or home/home with each other, but each year it's sort of a crap-shoot as to what teams will be good. But with scheduling getting more and more difficult, I don't know how you solve this. I guess one way would be to say you only get to count x number of conference games towards an NCAA bid, so even if you play 20, no more than 16 would be recognized. Not sure that's workable, but you get the idea.
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