each season and to have AZ-AZ St. as home-and-away each season. But that is a challenge with how spread out everything in the west is: still 9-10 hour drive from Phoenix to Provo/SLC. its not that much farther from Phoenix to Dallas.
So maybe its just a year 1 thing: I wonder if they stick to that western pod in future seasons. Because it doesn't save that much money than mixing them up with texas schools