4. Outside of a few teams the farthest we have to travel is Texas.

I mean, we're certainly better off than Stanford or Washington or UCF who are the outliers in their conference. But we have ¼ of the conference further than Texas (Cincy, WVU, Iowa St, UCF) and some of them in Texas are also pretty far.

But I'm just imagining Ohio St talking about how geographically cohesive the B1G is. Or Duke loving how logically the ACC has expanded.

If you're looking at conference opponents 900+ miles away, you've got Texas Tech, Kansas St, Kansas, Oklahoma St, Baylor, TCU, Iowa St, Houston, Cincinnati, West Virginia, UCF - that's 73% of our opponents.

How many B1G conference opponents are 900+ miles from Ohio St?  4 total (the recent PAC invites).  Or 23.5%.

And how many ACC conference opponents are 900+ miles from Duke? 3 total (Stanford, Cal, and SMU). That's 18.8% and drops to 17.6% when Notre Dame is included.

Part of that is just the reality of being out West. There's simply going to have to be more travel out here with schools and cities more spread out. 

And it's also definitely good that we're not an outlier school (UCF, West Virginia, Cincy, USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal, Washington, Oregon, SMU)...but the reality is that most of our away games require flights to realistically attend

At which point it almost doesn't matter how far we have to travel.  Going to North Carolina isn't really much tougher than going to Iowa