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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 409031, member: 628"] They're clearly trying to preserve rivalries. You can either do that by placing rivals within the same division (e.g. SEC) or via a cross-division zipper format (e.g. ACC). The BE kept Louisville and Cincy together in the East, along with UConn/Rutgers and USF/UCF. West is Houston/SMU, Boise St/San Diego St and Memphis/Temple. Temple just had the bad fortune of not having an obvious eastern pairing. I suspect that when Navy joins they'll get put in the East and Temple will move there to be a pairing, and then whoever joins after that will get dumped in the West to be paired with Memphis. Meanwhile we get an annual northeast trio of BC, Pitt & Maryland. Point us. [/QUOTE]