SMU lands in West division with Houston, Navy, Tulsa, others

[Harry]

Here the complete look at the AAC East-West divisions:

East Division
UCF
Cincinnati
UConn
East Carolina
USF
Temple

West Division
Houston
Memphis
Navy
SMU
Tulane
Tulsa

In addition to the divisional alignment, the AAC also announced the tiebreak procedure for the 2014 season — a conference championship game will be held in 2015 as the league moves to 12 teams.

Read more: http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2014/05/aac-announces-divisional-alignments-smu-lands-in-west-division-with-houston-navy-tulsa-others.html/

[MeanGreenTexan]

Why would Navy be in the West instead of Cincinnati?

[BillySee58]

Why would Navy be in the West instead of Cincinnati?

Keep the rivalries/long-time conference foes playing each other. It's not solely geographic. Missouri is in the SEC East despite LSU, Ole Miss, Miss State, and Alabama all being longitudinally more east than Mizzou. Edited May 30, 2014 by BillySee58

[forevereagle]

Keep the rivalries/long-time conference foes playing each other. It's not solely geographic. Missouri is in the SEC East despite LSU, Ole Miss, Miss State, and Alabama all being longitudinally more east than Mizzou.

I also saw a quote from their coach from before the announcement that they wanted to play SMU or Houston every year for recruiting as a lot of their recruits come from Texas.