[Frozenbird]

I would suspect that he issue is $. If you have teams close to home willing to play you, why travel hundreds of miles and spend the time and money. Don't get me wrong, the matchups would be great and would be good for everyone's programs and would improve football in the state. When I was at Highlands for the championships in the 80's, those bus rides to Eastern Ky were not fun and I know that the athletic boosters and band boosters had to raise a lot of extra cash to cover them. The gate proceeds from the games were also not as good as for playoff games at home. For a nonplayoff game against an out of area team would fans show up? Some of those playoff games in the 80's that we traveled to were poorly attended. More Highlands fans then home team fans.