
Originally Posted by
inudesu
But that is the reason that you can't just split the conjectured list up above down the middle.
From a Tech standpoint, it just looks like a no-brainer decision (just like most non-Tech folks could never understand why we'd travel in the WAC instead of playing closer to home in the SB). But the reason it won't happen (as awesome as it would be for Tech) is because Houston and SMU don't want to play with UTSA and UNT, and USF/UCF don't want to play with FIU/FAU. It doesn't have anything (or at least not much) with anyone wanting or not wanting to play with Tech per se.
If you swapped us and Tulane for some reason, you'd still get opposition to splitting that group geographically for the same reasons.