(05-18-2019 03:02 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Another suggestion: The geographic areas should have a roughly equal number of FBS programs.

Example: In the Pacific time zone, there are 8 P5 programs and 5 G5 programs (6 if you include Hawai'l which is the only program west of the Pacific time zone). In the Mountain time zone, there are 4 P5 programs and 9 G5 programs (if you include BYU as G5). The Denver-based conference(s) you list above don't have nearly enough resources. Arguably you'd want to combine the Pacific and Mountain into one region.

In contrast, the Southeast, if it's the SEC footprint minus Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri, has 16 P5 programs and about 18 G5 programs.

New England/Mid-Atlantic is also short on FBS programs unless your mid-atlantic includes Virginia and the Carolinas.

Open to suggestions on regions which have roughly equal resources. I gave it a rough eyeballing based upon census regions. For Texarkana I had in mind TX, LA, AR, OK. I forget what they call it in the census but it's a subregion.

I imagined NE/MA would want to go into Virginia and keep going if they could.