Ross Dellenger from Sports Illustrated reported that the University of Memphis has emerged as a name of interest in the conference expansion "game". Dellenger wrote that the next round of expansion is about "survival".
Dellenger wrote:
Within the meeting rooms, each league’s strategy unfolded ahead of their proverbial territorial battle. Just paces from the Pac-12’s gathering, Big 12 leaders discussed a list of expansion targets, four of them residing in the Pac-12: Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State and Utah.
Other targets are from a variety of leagues: San Diego State and UNLV from the Mountain West; UConn, which is independent in football and in the Big East in basketball; and Memphis, from the American. There are others, too, such as Colorado State, SMU and Fresno, but they seem further down the pecking order.
92.9 FM ESPN's Gabe Kuhn, a former lineman at Memphis, talked about it on Tuesday's Gabe Kuhn Show here:
