Colorado and Utah had the best markets of schools meeting the PAC's criteria for academic culture (both top 50 research institutions), completeness of graduate programs, and commitment to olympic sports (both top 50 in national championships, Colorado with 23 and Utah with 20). Utah still had to ...

1) As long as the PAC play 9 conference games every year, the other conferences with 8 conference games can't really say the PAC champ is "untested".
2) The PAC won't invite a religious school. Houston has a better shot than SMU.

Boise and SDSU are out of the Big East now (I also think UCONN and ...

let's see - tcu dominated and kept moving up

And how many conferences did TCU belong to through that process? They didn't sit around to see what happened.

MWC is not a viable conference- they lack a private school member so that their finances are subject to FOIA, they are all over ...

Don't underestimate the travel benefits of CUSA-West, now that the Big12 is going to a round robin you guys, Rice, and UH have the easiest travel situation for any Texas fbs team ...

There is really only room for one midmajor conference in the Western US. Currently the WAC, MWC, and CUSA are splitting TV markets, quality teams, and recruiting hotbeds (Texas and California). There really should be a consolidation into two 12 team conferences with what is left now. Hopefully that ...

Neither the MWC nor CUSA are in good shape in this era of conference reallignment. Neither has a hope of BCS AQ status. The MWC has a terrible TV deal, and CUSA is likely to lose teams to any further Big East expansion (SMU would get left behind in any scenario). Maybe it's time to build a new ...