This is what I find to be the most mind boggling. The PAC 12 always struggled with national relevance because of the time zone issue. Their games were on too late. So why add 4 schools in the Mtn time zone? Last I checked, I've seen a lot of MWC games on TV starting around 8:00 or later. You'd think they'd wanna look east and get teams that allow for games to be played easily in prime slots. Not saying it can't be done with the 4 corner schools but it just seems odd that they look at the conference who struggled with TV deals partially because none watched their games due to time zone.
Yea but there’s only so many prime time slots. As these conferences get bigger it makes some sense to try to take over more time slots, even if they aren’t the highest rated time slots.