(10-07-2020 05:57 PM)TardisCaptain Wrote:  

(10-07-2020 03:12 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(10-07-2020 02:13 PM)chidave Wrote:  The ideal would be to form three conferences but the CFP payout rules would currently prevent that. CUSA East has almost been together long enough to get the auto-bid.You have 24 football playing schools now but could add some of the Indys (NMSU/Liberty) or a call-up like JMU to get to the 10 that is the best configuration.

Sure—Take the 24 football schools in C-USA/SBC, plus NMSU, Liberty, and JMU and then divide into 3 groups of 9:

West: NMSU, UTEP, UTSA, Texas St, Rice, UNT, ULL, ULM, LA Tech
Central: USM, USA, Troy, UAB, MTSU, WKU, Ark St, FAU, FIU
East: Marshall, JMU, Liberty, ODU, App St, Charlotte, CCU, GA St, GA South

Because of the hatred between LA Tech and ULM, swap one of them for Ark St and I think you've got a plan.

Plus with Ark St with the Texas schools, they could keep UALR and UTA as oly only members. To get to 12 oly members they may have to grab one more. UTRGV? Oral Roberts?