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[QUOTE="Vowelguy, post: 5076283, member: 59"]
I was referring to the westernmost teams in the AAC.  I know Memphis is not in the West.

As we have seen, many schools will sacrifice almost everything all for the sake of getting their FB team higher up the food chain (or not going down).  The new PAC has potential to be the clearly strongest G5 league, if they do this right.  Meanwhile the last realignment has really watered down the AAC.  It used to be top G5.  Last year it fell to 3rd behind the Sun Belt and MW. 
Two former P5 teams + the cream of MW and AAC could be a very strong conference (in a G5 sense), and set the teams up to do better if/when the ACC collapses. 
If you add a few central time zone teams (Memp Tln TX schools), travel burden is more manageable.

No I do not know the exact costs of the increased travel.  Maybe it'll be prohibitive.  But I think it deserves serious consideration.  And again, schools will typically do almost anything to move up a few rungs on the ladder.
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