[chrisk]

I'm only a casual fan of football  so I don't feel the pain as much as others here.  The upside for me is the game was televised on CBS so Stanford is still on the national stage.  Troy has another season to possibly bring in some transfers and continue to play in a Power 4 conference.

If Stanford had stayed in the PAC-12 with a rag tag bunch of random West Coast teams, I doubt this game gets on CBS.  Fans on the East Coast would be saying about the game "whatever, is San Jose a D1 school?"

In any case, the game was on CBS because it is a partner of the MWC. It probably didn’t matter that much which conference Stanford is in. CBS probably didn’t have many good options for that time slot.. They signed up before the season started when they thought Stanford might be better and maybe they thought the ACC exposure would help.

[chrisk]

I'm only a casual fan of football  so I don't feel the pain as much as others here.  The upside for me is the game was televised on CBS so Stanford is still on the national stage.  Troy has another season to possibly bring in some transfers and continue to play in a Power 4 conference.

If Stanford had stayed in the PAC-12 with a rag tag bunch of random West Coast teams, I doubt this game gets on CBS.  Fans on the East Coast would be saying about the game "whatever, is San Jose a D1 school?"

In any case, the game was on CBS because it is a partner of the MWC. It probably didn’t matter that much which conference Stanford is in. CBS probably didn’t have many good options for that time slot.. They signed up before the season started when they thought Stanford might be better and maybe they thought the ACC exposure would help.