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Originally Posted by
FriscoDawg
No need to add UTA and UALR with WKU and MT staying. Adding Missouri State would allow an 18-game schedule with travel partners.
The travel partner pairings would have to be something like UTEP-NMSU, Tech-SHSU, WKU-MT, FIU-LU, and that would leave Missouri State and Jacksonville State stuck together. Or maybe something creative could be done with MSU, JSU, FIU, and Liberty to alternate off among those four.
Otherwise with a 9-team conference there is always a team not playing, so it would still take 9 weeks for everyone to play 16 conference games