I feel that there is disgruntlement if not full bore discontent in both the Sun Belt and the Conference USA. Even if we broke the Conference USA and Sun Belt in two, it would not be viewed as a revolution and the only thing we would get in the South Central Conference would be New Mexico State and they would want New Mexico in Line and UTEP would be holding the phone in wanting New Mexico and New Mexico State.
What it would achieve in a South Central Southwest Division would be New Mexico State, UTEP, UTSA, Texas State, North Texas and Rice being in the same division and we would get UTSA and Texas State as a league game, but, little else good would happen as Rice would want to be with their legacy rivals instead.
In the South Central Southeast Division would be Arkansas State, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana Monroe, Louisiana Lafayette, Southern Miss and Western Kentucky and their would have to be regional reciprocation of Non Conference Rivalries and that would mean nobody would have a Plus Wins lead on their board, but, the likelier scenario would be merging their Division IAA FCS Counterparts instead into the Playoff Fold.
In the South Atlantic Conference, the West Division would be Middle Tennessee State, UAB, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, FIU and FAU and the East Division would be Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State, Charlotte, Old Dominion, Liberty and Marshall. I don't know if having to start out with a Super Conference from the start with 10 Year Money would work better closer to the Atlantic, but there would be pratfalls with the MEAC and the ACC going haywire and that could happen.
We would need a Super Conference Realignment Day similar to 2003 and that would still have to happen and I don't want to incur rehashes just for rehashes sake, but, a lot of it would have to again involve revivals, true expansions, HBCU and IAA.
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