I can get onboard with that line of thought a bit Tarheel. Having the games be more regionally considered would be a lot more fun, only thing is that there's really only 5 major conferences anymore. Was a lot easier to get that worked out in the days of the old Big East where you could easily have 3 Big East vs ACC bowl games and nobody would blink because that was usually something like WVU-UVa, VT-NC State, Miami-Clemson or FSU.
The flip side of that is in a big way I liked getting to play and beat teams we never played. Oklahoma (can't say I expected that conference move), Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, etc. Then again WVU had a habit of scheduling interesting OOC games in my time there after Rich Rod took over. Since then, OOC, they've played a home and home with Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Florida State, VT (after they left the Big East), Mississippi State, LSU, Auburn, Colorado, Missouri, and neutral sites vs Bama, VT, BYU, and (coming next season) Tennessee.
