The House of Blue

You know, that's an interesting point. If you had one 6 and one 7 team division by placing TA&M in the west, and you played everyone in your division (which should be a given) then the west teams would have six division games and the east times five. The east teams would need three out-of-division games and the west only two to get to eight conference games each, which is 18 cross-divisional games vs 14 games.

If you try to play an overall 7 or 9 game schedule, you still get similar imbalances. If you modified the schedule so the west played nine conference games and the east eight, then you would have 18 cross divisional games vs 21.

The only way it works is if you do away with divisions, (BUT...then you would lose the championship game and all that money, which is unacceptable), or bastardize the schedule so each team doesn't play each team in their division, or possibly re-align to three divisions which doesn't make much sense if you go beyond 13 teams. You could balance it with 3 divisions (1x5 and 2x4) but then who gets left out of the championship game. The only other way is to play games that only counted in the conference for one team, which I don't think would ever happen.

My real guess is they find a 14th team in a hurry, should this work out with TA&M. But, it would be interesting to know how Mr. Slive and his staff are pursuing this.

I'm confusing myself...so I'll stop thinking about it.