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

Well obviously there would never be relegation between the SEC and Sun Belt, but given that the SEC teams always schedule a cupcake or two each, it could work to the SEC's advantage to just have all SEC teams host C-USA (picking them because they're to have 14 teams soon) teams on Labor Day weekend in any given year. This would give the top teams a slight SOS boost and make the chances of a second playoff team a tad bit more realistic.

SEC-CUSA challenge 2017:
Western Kentucky at Alabama
Old Dominion at Florida
Louisiana Tech at LSU
Middle Tennessee State at Auburn
Texas-San Antonio at Tennessee
Southern Mississippi at Texas A&M
Florida International at Georgia
North Texas at Kentucky
Charlotte at Arkansas
UTEP at Vanderbilt
Marshall at South Carolina
Rice at Mississippi State
Florida Atlantic at Ole Miss
UAB at Missouri


Good possibility of LSU not winning the division but being in the conversation since one of their "cupcakes" wins 8 or 9 games. That kind of shite adds up in the computers, and of the committee's 12 playoff picks so far in three years, only one of them (undefeated Florida State) was outside the top four in the Massey Composite. :shrug: