I know this was intended to be humorous, and is, but it’s also true.
Now, moving onto other discussion.
For the P4, yes, divisions are over for the most part from here on out.
For these steaming piles of tv audiences, not so much.
If the pac were to put 8 on the east and west, they could do division rr, plus 4 from other div, leaving one ooc.
This reduces travel, helps their inventory going to market (11 conf games), and keeps a lot of regionally important matchups. They’ll need that, plus the 11 games, in order to have any semblance of a tv deal. It won’t be much, even when maximized, but it would be a little more than what they make now.
They could go 9/9, but really they're going to struggle to get to 12, let alone 16-18.
“After Dark” spots are limited already, see: b1g/b12/acc. In order to survive they will have to really think outside the box.
You can’t force a P4 model onto a g6 conference. They just don’t have the budgets, and still won’t even if the tv deal is at its best.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter. They’re going to at best be the “best of the rest”, and much national exposure will be limited.
Only so many slots overall, and the consolidation at the top is taking most of those slots already.