(04-03-2013 02:23 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  If anybody shouldn't have a football team, its the arrogant cheaters in Columbus and their wanna-be band wagon fans who have tried to sue Ohio University to block them from using their name even though they tried to steal it from them decades after.

You're right there ~ its not just deserts, so God must just love Central Ohio.

Its interesting to look at where a league is primarily based. There are a few core regions of the country for athletics and it doesn't make a lot sense to cross between regions.

AQ Conferences
B1G: Illinois (Northwestern, Illinois)
PAC: California (USC, Stanford, UCLA, California)
B12: Texas (TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech, Texas)
SEC: Alabama (Auburn, Alabama)
ACC: North Carolina (Wake Forest, Duke, UNC, NC State)

G5 Conferences
MWC: California (SDSU, SJSU, Fresno St)
CUSA: Texas (UTEP, UTSA, North Texas, Rice)
SBC: Georgia (Georgia State, Georgia Southern)
AAC: Florida (Central Florida, South Florida)
MAC: Ohio (Toledo, BG, Kent St, Akron, Miami, Ohio)

Note among the AQ conferences that outside of TAMU in the SEC there is no other case of an AQ conference having a member in a core state of another AQ conference.

In the G5, the MW doesn't overlap any conference's core but the AAC overlaps the MAC with Cincinnati and CUSA with Houston/SMU. Georgia is now the big recruiting state for the SBC with 2 in-state schools and Appy/Troy satelliting it.