Oy vey....you guys are looking at this from the traditional FBS model. The SWAC competes in the FCS, and marginally schedules PWC schools for their very very limited OOC schedule. More often than not, they schedule their historical schedulilng partners like Langston, etc. They're not participating in the main thing that makes the FCS the FCS, intersectional play and the playoffs.

From that standpoint, it doesn't matter what division the SWAC plays in. If they moved to FBS as a conference, they could keep doing EXACTLY what they're doing now. There would be NO change whatsoever, EXCEPT that they'd have to raise more money to fund the extra schollies, but in the current woke era, that's probably easier for the SWAC to do than many would assume; and moving to a division that allows more schollies and then with the Title IX requiring an equal amount spent on women's sports, a move to FBS helps HBCUs more adequately fill their original mission parameters.

NDSU folks think "FBS" from the standpoint of competing with other conferences and trying to get to bowl cames. HBCUs and the SWAC already have that with what they're doing now....Look at it from a business perspective instead of a football product perspective.

They could, and should, be in FBS....