One thing to look out for is a sudden scramble for tier 1 schools to shore up their strength of schedules for the 2014 season and beyond. A consistent aspect from the lips of those directly involved is that the selection committee will use strength of schedule in their evaluations of teams: it will not merely be a matter of won-loss record and/or conference standings. This will force teams like Ohio State to drop teams like Toledo, Kent State, etc from their schedules as soon as 2014 if they want the best chance of making a playoff. Many teams - including LSU - schedule patsies at times (Towson Tigers, anyone?) as "warmup" games. Since many teams have standing contracts with "schedule filler" or "warmup" teams, we might see a push for some teams to start backing out of contracts they have with teams that are perceived to be weak in 2014 schedules and beyond. This will do 2 things: it will force teams to contract solid schedules with quality OOC opponents and simultaneously inject more upsets in football. Both of these are a good thing for college football.
I wouldn't count out the possibility of the SEC moving to nine conference games in the spring meetings of 2013.
