WEST

1. Tennessee State University – Nashville, TN (west)
2. Jackson State University – Jackson, MS (west)
3. Florida A&M University – Tallahassee, FL (west)
4. Grambling University – Grambling, LA (west)
5. Southern University – Baton Rouge, LA (west)
6. Texas Southern – Houston, TX (west)

EAST

7. Morehouse College – Atlanta, GA (east)
8. Hampton University – Hampton, VA (east)
9. Howard University – Washington, DC (east)
10. North Carolina A&T – Greensboro, NC (east)
11. South Carolina State – Orangeburg, SC (east)
12. Alabama State – Birmingham, AL (east)

ALTERNATE SCHOOLS

13. Tuskegee College – Tuskegee, AL
14. Alabama A&M – Huntsville, AL
15. Morgan State – Baltimore, Maryland
16. Bethune Cookman – Daytona Beach, Florida

The conference would be divided into 2 divisions of 6 teams each. Each school playing each team in their division 5 games and 2 teams in the opposite division that would rotate each year. Where you would play every one at least once every three years. That is seven conference games. That would leave each school the ability to play two big payday games (larger institutions or local rival games that are Division I) and would still allow the ability to play two other HBCU’s (to keep traditional games). Yes, only one division I-AA game can count toward bowl eligibility and that would be fine. Once the league was up and operational for 5 years the rankings will be high enough to offset that. There would be a Conference Title game. Which would be a huge event. And the league would tie in with 3 bowl games to be held in popular cities all to be held on December 31st (Las Vegas, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami…one to be called the Diversity Bowl). This should give about 3-4 teams the opportunity to play in bowl games.