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Message: [QUOTE="CTFAN4LIFE, post: 5189521, member: 3328"] Well, yeah, but not relevant to this subject.... here's some actual football data: UConn home and away from 2000-present: 119-183 for a winning percentage of .394 For games travelling ~ 3k miles: 0-2 (obviously a small dataset) for a winning percentage of .000 For games travelling ~ 2k miles: 8-19 for a winning percentage of .296 Total of all those games is 8-21 for a winning percentage of .275, which is almost a full 25% worse than the overall record. Even the NFL where every franchise is used to long distance travel as a norm, the team travelling long distance has a 5% worse losing record as opposed to short distance road games. Distance matters in general and it would for UConn travelling 4 or 5 times out to the far west. Odds are on average, we'd win 1 or 2 long distance games per year. That means we'd have at best 2 road losses out west and little to no shot at even a 16-team CFP. The idea that going to the new Pac (a G5 conference) would be an easy/easier glide path to the CFP just doesn't add up. The new Pac winner would have to be 12-0 with a shiny P* win or two just to be in the conversation for the last slot. [/QUOTE]