Remember the Pac-10? Remember when the Big 10 had ten teams? Remember when the ACC was actually on the Atlantic coast?
Well, not no more, folks. I tell ya, it is really starting to get out of hand.
Now, the question for me is always, is there any way to put a number on this craziness? Perhaps the easiest way to do that would be to simply compute the longest distance between any two teams in that conference. Now, I’m not talking about the 15 miles between Duke and UNC. I’m talking about, say, Duke and Stanford.
So, based on that, here are the eight craziest conferences out there. I’m limiting it to only those conferences with numbers over 1,000 miles, ranking them by increasing mileage. Finally, I looked at driving mileage, not air.
Okay, let’s see what we got …
Big East
1424 miles
Providence to Creighton
Fun fact: Nine of the 11 schools are Catholic
It’s on IMdB
American Athletic
1744 miles
Temple to UTSA
Fun fact: Have two teams named the Owls, Rice and Temple
Sun Belt
1521 miles
Old Dominion to Texas State
Fun fact: According to this Wikipedia map of the actual sunbelt, four Sun Belt teams shouldn’t be in the conference
Conference USA
1822 miles
Liberty to New Mexico State
Fun fact: Will jump a little further down the list when the Univ. of Delaware joins in 2025
Western Athletic
2067 miles
Seattle to UT Arlington
Fun fact: 34 former members
And this is on YouTube
Big 12
2155 miles
West Virginia to Arizona State
Fun fact: Actually has 16 teams
What the future might hold in store
Big 10
2844 miles
Rutgers to Univ. of Washington
Fun fact: Actually has 18 schools
ACC
3126 miles
Boston College to Stanford
Fun fact: 2 teams are now on the Pacific Coast
Got it?
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