Money wise the MAC needs to be at 12 or less. There is not a bunch of revenue in this conference and many do not pull their weight.
12 to keep the conference Championship game I guess. but seriously wouldn't Ohio, Miami, BG, Toledo, Central, Western and Northern be better off if EMU, Ball State, Kent, Akron, Buffalo and Umass went to FCS. Maybe keep one or two of them to stay at 8 or 9.
From a football standpoint I'd agree with EMU and Akron at least; maybe
UMass, although I'd like to give them a couple years to see how they develop (they're likely to go to the AAC anyway). Buffalo could develop also. But BSU has beaten us the last two times we played them and Kent has beaten us three out of four. Plus, both did pretty well last year vs AQ schools, so there's not much to complain about if they get their attendance numbers up. The problem with MAC schools is that they're waystops and not the final destination for most coaches, so it's tough for most of them to have any kind of program continuity.