RE: 10 Team League
With 10 teams, you don't really need divisions (for football, at least). You can either play a 9-game round-robin conference schedule, a la the Big 12, or you can skip a team each season.
As others have said, for CUSA, skipping a team would probably be the best route. You'd lose potential revenue by adding a conference game, since that could come at the expense of a potential P5 guarantee game or, for some, a regional G5 rivalry game. It would also cost the conference in exposure by limiting opportunities to collect wins against other FBS conferences.
So skipping a team is the way to go. The only complicating factor here is, you'd need a tie-breaker for cases where two teams are tied for 2nd place and they didn't play each other head-to-head. No big deal... whether you chose the highest ranked team, the team with the toughest SoS, or some complicated metric comparing games against common opponents, there are plenty of ways to do this. Most years, you wouldn't even need it at all.
Since the whole point of divisions, really, is controlling travel costs, your team-skipping formula can weight teams by distance. Basically, the "problem children" are your matchups of fringe schools -- Liberty vs FIU, Liberty vs NMSU/UTEP, and FIU vs NMSU/UTEP. So those games would either be eliminated completely in the regular season, or drastically reduced so that they only happen once every few seasons.
There's no benefit for nearby schools to skip each other, so you make those games permanent to semi-permanent. As someone else noted, it's doubtful the conference would run through the entire rotation before another round of realignment hits, so if necessary, faraway games could be weighted toward the back end of the rotation.
It's not a perfect system -- teams in the middle of the footprint would realize less travel savings than those on the fringes -- and it would be kind of a bear to work out the finer details, but it would achieve a fairly effective compromise between round-robin and divisional scheduling. And as long as the tie breakers were well thought out, you'd always have your two best teams meet in the CCG.
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