Oklahoma's last three games aren't exactly easy with Baylor, Iowa State, and Okie State.

What's more impressive? That you took Smith's future wife to homecoming dance or that you took the future wife of a certain Bobcat running back (circa 1980) on a date during the summer between your freshman and sophomore years at Ohio University?

The Athletic reporting C-USA talking to New Mexico State, Liberty and UConn (football only)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA what a trash league that would be.

If the MAC was adding I would invite Marshall, WKU, MTSU as well as Liberty. Liberty basically has ultra modern facilities and a boat load of $$$$. It is also not that far away. If any of the above pass and the MAC needed a 4th it would either be UMass or UConn with the stipulation it is for all sports, not just football.

Ok if they do that UMass thing, they completely throw their entire philosophy out the window. The MAC's whole reason for standing pat during this whole process was that nobody "fit the current footprint" of the league except for a handful of schools. I really don't see the benefit of adding UMass for football over MTSU. If you're gonna take WKU, give them a rival within 90 miles of the school so they don't feel as remote. I can't imagine doing the UMass thing simply as a basketball decision, but it's a complete left turn from what the MAC has said over and over again.

Confirmed today: Marshall to the Sun Belt.

That’s a pity. Even though their joining the SBC was reported days ago and widely expected (with apologies to OCF), i was really hoping they wouldn’t go Sunbelt. I was really hoping they would either try to stick with CUSA or hold out for an AAC invite that wasn’t coming and be forced into involuntary FBS Independence.

(In any case, very happy the MAC didn’t welcome these duplicitous bas…illegitimate children back a 3rd time

Well, we’ll now see if the MAC brass has the good sense to add WKU and MTSU or UMASS (all sports). It actually makes too much sense that it’s probably dead on arrival. But we shall see.

Ok I'll bite. How does UMass make sense? They provide almost no value football wise and haven't been relevant in basketball for a long time (last tournament appearance was 2014). Plus it would only add to our travel budget because nobody besides maybe Buffalo can bus there.

I want no part of UMass unless another group of East Coast schools was coming with them and it made sense. The MAC "could" or perhaps even "should" have looked into this when they had Temple and UMass on the fringes, especially with UConn now nowhere to land for football. But now? No thanks.

The league may have multiple bids, but UMass has only been to the tournament once in the last 23 years and hasn't won a tournament game in more than a quarter century. They're not recruiting a single player who knows about their previous success in the mid-90s. They probably have a belief that they're a basketball school, but those days are long gone.

(For reference, OHIO has four appearances and 4 wins in that time frame.)

Same. I was really hoping the MAC would do something outlandish and think outside of the box for once, adding 4 schools in the South and making it a 16-team super G5 league with pods instead of divisions. Somewhat similar to what they do in soccer. But, for naught. It's fun to pretend.

East (Rust Belt Pod aka we're better at basketball pod)
Buffalo
Akron
Kent State
Ohio

South (Blue Ridge Pod)
Marshall
Western Kentucky
Middle Tennessee
Transition FCS->FBS (James Madison, Eastern Kentucky, etc)

West (The Plains Pod)
Northern Illinois
Ball State
Miami
Bowling Green

North (Great Lakes Pod)
Toledo
Eastern Michigan
Central Michigan
Western Michigan

-Go to a 9-game conference schedule

-You play each team in your pod (3 games), have a permanent crossover (1 game), then the remaining (5 games) are just on some rotation basis so that you both host and visit every team within 4 years. This way each athlete on your roster plays at every stadium in the conference at least once. I don't think that happens now in a division scenario, though it should.

-Obviously Ohio-Miami and Bowling Green-Toledo would be permanent crossovers. But you could come up with some other really good ones, I think.

-Hell you could even take it one step further and have a mini 4-team playoff with the winners of each pod to decide your conference champ.

https://www.bannersociety.com/2019/8/15/20734585/college-...

UConn confirms that it's exploring joining CUSA as a football-only member. Liberty and NMSU also are discussing CUSA membership.