With rumored discussions of College Football Playoff expansions opening the door for more teams to make their way into the field, some dominos must fall with that.

One of those major dominos is the future of how teams will schedule their seasons and what that could mean for teams like the Iowa Hawkeyes. With a proposed new plan, it could mean that the Hawkeyes would end their regular season with a potential College Football Playoff play-in game against an SEC school.

Per Dellenger, the proposed changes would “clear the way” for the SEC to begin playing nine regular season conference games, which would then have a knock-on effect to other parts of the schedule.

Primarily, a ninth conference game would trigger a likely scheduling agreement with the Big Ten that would pit the two conference’s schools against each other for one game each season (similar to cross-conference competitions seen in college basketball). The games would then be sold as a separate television package, generating yet more revenue for the two conferences as schools scramble for ways to pay players in college football’s new era.