RE: Should the MVC go to 14 ?
If you look at creating conferences that make sense geographically there is a large empty stripe that goes down the middle of the country that separates 28 FBS teams in the West from the rest, I think those teams should form 2 conferences with divisions of 7 teams in relative proximity. The 4 divisions could look like this-
Cali- UCLA, Stanford, Cal, San Diego St, San Jose St, Fresno St, USC
Pacific- Hawaii, Oregon, Oregon St, Washington, Washington St, Idaho, Boise St
Plains- Wyoming, Colorado, Colorado St, Air Force, Utah, Utah St, BYU
Desert- Nevada, UNLV, Arizona, Arizona St, New Mexico, New Mexico St, UTEP
Of course something sensible cannot in exist in FBS, the most blatantly corrupt sports league this side of FIFA, because if the conference was labeled a G5 conference it would have received between $13M-$17M last year from the CFP, and if it was deemed worthy of being a P5 it would have receive between $58M-$87.5M. But because we allow these wholly unethical distribution of league revenue amongst its members sensible conference constructions cannot be considered.
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