Last month is was announced about a collaboration between the MWC and Conference USA for football only. Now what is that going to do? So they have 16 plus schools who sponsor football, that still is not going to guarantee they get an automatic bid for the BCS, but it may allow the league, whatever it's going to called to take advantage of television markets they will share..
Now that C-USA has lost SMU, Houston, and UCF to the Big East, and the MWC is losing Boise St. and San Diego St., with the potential of losing AirForce, the teams in the WAC, may be the best option to add to their venture. In fact I believe if the three merge into one "super conference", they may be able to sway BYU back into the picture. BYU has it's own tv network as does the MWC. C-USA has a contract with FSN, and between the tv markets that will be available, the revenue, even though split by more teams, would ultimately be larger. They surely would reach more homes, allowing for more exposure. The conference would run from Hawaii to W. Virginia.
With TCU leaving for the Big 12, and Boise gone, the MWC has no big name team. With the four teams remaining, plus the teams that are already committed to jump to the MWC from the WAC next season, they might as well just merge, and do away with the WAC. The conference could have as many as 22 teams across the country, assuming all the current teams stay, so four pods, just like the PAC 12 was going to do if they became a 16 team league, which could make it interesting at least.
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