Ok.

Nashville (775 miles) is closer than Lincoln, Boulder, and Ames.

Knoxville (952 miles) is closer than Boulder.

Athens (913 miles) is closer than Ames and Boulder.

Gainesville (949 miles) is closer than Boulder and the same distance as Ames.

Lexington (985 miles) is further away than all of them, as is Columbia, SC, as I already stated.

Here's what you fail to factor in though - the four year rotation of conference games:

Year 1: 1579 miles

at Austin (107 miles)
at Stillwater (433 miles)
at Ames (948 miles)
at Waco (91 miles)

Year 2: 2410 miles

at Lubbock (440 miles)
at Norman (357 miles)
at Boulder (953 miles)
at Manhattan (660 miles)

Year 3: 1316 miles

at Austin
at Waco
at Stillwater
at Lawrence (685 miles)

Year 4: 2362 miles

at Lubbock
at Norman
at Lincoln (803 miles)
at Columbia (762 miles)

That averages out to 1917 miles a year for conference games.

Let's compare that to a typical 2 year SEC cycle using only true road games.

Year 1: 3061 miles

at Starkville (587 miles)
at Auburn (779 miles)
at Tuscaloosa (643 miles)
at Columbia (1052 miles)

Year 2: 1808 miles

at Oxford (582 miles)
at Baton Rouge (366 miles)
AVERAGE of the remainder of the east schools (860 miles)

That averages out to 2435 miles, which is a whopping 518 miles more than the big 12 average...or the equivalent of a trip from Dallas to San Antonio to Houston

This post was edited on 7/24/15 at 1:40 pm