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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 3308489, member: 1559"] Never going to happen. Why? If you take the top 32 football teams and they only played each other, math says half of teams would probably be 0.500 or below. Talk about a way to kill a schools fan base. The top schools love going 11-1, 10-2, 9-3 every year even if they beat some bad teams. Their fans demand their teams target 10 wins per year. In my opinion, BYU, Army, and UConn as football independents are unique relative to UMass, Liberty, NM State. Why? The first three have history with a number of P5 schools in a number of sports which allows them to find schools willing to play them. For example, what school would not want to play Army in football or UConn in men’s and women’s basketball? UMass, Liberty, and NM State do not have those relationships. I think the AAC will thrive because they are the best conference in the G5 for football and basketball so I don’t think you will see AAC schools thinking independence in football. I think it is a possibility for Navy to return to football independence as the reason they joined the AAC was to ensure football scheduling. With UConn going independent, this would help Navy with scheduling. And, the AAC could go to 10 in football and 11 in basketball and play a round robin and maintain a football championship game. I think we will find out Navy’s plans in the next 6 months. [/QUOTE]