re: Here's a bold plan if you're the AAC (football divisions, promotion/relegation)

quote:

---

This will never happen but I wish there was relegation confrance between the best teams in Mountain west and American.

---

fify but hey here's an idea. UAB is coming back, and Coastal Carolina is moving up, and Idaho and New Mexico State are leaving the Sun Belt, which leaves the AAC, C-USA, and Sun Belt with a combined 36 teams, which is perfect.

Marshall was the worst C-USA team, and UAB is just now coming back, so let's relegate them to the Sun Belt and do the same thing I mentioned in the OP, but across all three conferences:

AAC-A: Temple (7-1), Navy (7-1), South Florida (7-1), Tulsa (6-2), Houston (5-3), Memphis (5-3)
AAC-B: Central Florida (4-4), Southern Methodist (3-5), Cincinnati (1-7), Tulane (1-7), East Carolina (1-7), Connecticut (1-7)

USA-C: Western Kentucky (7-1), Old Dominion (7-1), Louisiana Tech (6-2), Middle Tennessee State (5-3), Texas-San Antonio (5-3), Southern Mississippi (4-4)
USA-D: Florida International (4-4), North Texas (3-5), Charlotte (3-5), Texas-El Paso (2-6), Marshall (2-6), Rice (2-6)

Sun Belt-E: Florida Atlantic (2-6 C-USA), Alabama-Birmingham (n/a), Appalachian State (7-1), Arkansas State (7-1), Troy (6-2), Louisiana-Lafayette (5-3)
Sun Belt-F: Georgia Southern (4-4), Louisiana-Monroe (3-5), Georgia State (2-6), South Alabama (2-6), Texas State (0-8), Coastal Carolina (n/a)


Relegate two spots between each division. That is, if these standings hold up:
- Memphis and Houston would drop from A to B
- Central Florida and SMU would go from B to A
- ECU and UConn would drop from B to C
- WKU and ODU would go from C to B
- UTSA and USM would drop from C to D
- FIU and UNT would go from D to C
- Marshall and Rice would drop from D to E
- FAU and UAB would go from E to D
- Troy and ULL would drop from E to F
- GSo and ULM would go from F to E

You could have a deal where an AAC team would get home games against their USA&SBC Counterparts, and the SBC teams would visit theirs, and each USA team would go to USA and host SBC:

Temple - WKU - FAU
Navy - ODU - UAB
USF - LT - Appy
Tulsa - MTSU - Arky State
Houston - UTSA - Troy
Memphis - USM - ULL
UCF - FIU - GSo
SMU - UNT - ULM
Cincy - UNCC - GSt
Tulane - UTEP - USA
ECU - Marshall - Texas State
UConn - Rice - Coastal