Those four could add Boise State, UC Davis, San Jose State, Fresno State, UNLV, Eastern Washington, Portland State, Colorado State, Northern Arizona, Air Force to name a few. Schools are into football to raise money from ticket sales,advertisers, and media packages, and send their best coaches and players to other higher paying leagues. All of those schools could get some players/coaches into the pros...and they could raise enough to make school goals. Nowadays, college football has very little to do with knowledge from college. All about the “long green”.
Wash St, not Ariz St. They could do something like that, but it would still end up being a tremendous decrease in revenue to the old PAC-4.
Before the death penalty, SMU was good. Now with NIL they might come back to life, or maybe their alumni found better things to do on Saturdays in the fall.
ACC is in trouble too.