The Big 12 is to be pieced out. How do you maximize its value?

The SEC is now in Texas. The PAC and Big 10 and ACC need to be involved if you are to maximize the viewing of 26 million people (30 if you count Oklahoma).

The Big 10 needs a football anchor for the West Division.

The SEC wants DFW.

The PAC needs the markets.

The ACC would be enhanced by a football brand.

If you are the networks you would ideally like to make this happen as frugally as possible.

Oklahoma? Is the only school that gives the Big 10 a football anchor and puts them into the DFW demographic. They would fit the SEC better, but are more valuable to the Big 10.

Kansas? Doesn't really give the Big 10 much they don't already have. Too far away and too detached for the ACC. Texas is a bigger deal for the PAC. The SEC could stand some eyeballs from Southern Illinois, Kansas, parts of Iowa and does need the hoops help.

Texas? Not essential to the SEC. Would be a huge help to the cred of the ACC provided N.D. came all in as part of the deal. The PAC needs them, but are they willing to do what it takes to get them (sell a piece of the PACN to ESPN).

West Virginia? They don't fit the Big 10 profile. They are an outlier even for the SEC. They fit best with the ACC but if the ACC lands Texas I don't think they get in. Out for the PAC.

Oklahoma State / T.C.U.? If OU heads to the Big 10 the SEC's best shot a landing the majority of the DFW market is to add to what the Aggies already have. How do you judge between OSU (larger school, larger athletic budget, and a decent following in DFW) and TCU ( a solid private with a large endowment in Fort Worth, but with deficits in attendance)?

If the PAC wants into the game they will go after T.C.U. If the Frogs deliver more of DFW than does OSU then maybe its the Frogs the SEC needs to take.

If the PAC sells a % of the PACN look for Texas to head west with Texas Tech then O.S.U. makes some sense as between OSU & Texas the PAC would have everything they would want in DFW. Perhaps if things break right Kansas State can go as well. If the Horns head West then WVU becomes much more palatable to finish out the ACC.

So Texas becomes a state that California, Big 10 country, and the Southeast will watch play football each week due to local interest and a stake in the state. That's a huge ratings bonanza.

The Big 10 might take Iowa State simply because it would be part of the compromise that would land them Oklahoma.

The SEC now has eyeballs from the Norther Midwest come basketball season and that helps too.

So if the PAC sells out for Texas this might happen:

The ACC survives and is compensated for doing so.

Big 10 adds Oklahoma and Iowa State

SEC adds Kansas and T.C.U.

PAC adds Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Kansas State.

ACC adds West Virginia

If the PAC doesn't sell out this might happen:

Big 10 adds Oklahoma and Iowa State

ACC adds Texas and Notre Dame

SEC adds Kansas and Oklahoma State

PAC adds Texas Tech and T.C.U. (and maybe Kansas State)

Every major conference now has ties to DFW. That's a huge network coup.

The Big 10 has its football anchor and the SEC has a basketball King.

Either way there are enough votes to dissolve. Those left behind get paid handsomely for a little while.

Now we can move to 4 champs for a national playoff. In time conference semis may evolve but certainly not at first.

The SEC and Big 10 solve their scheduling issues. The ACC has a Northern Football King (N.D.) and a Southern Football King (Texas).

It's a close to parity as we will likely get which is also a plus for the networks.

The Big 10 swallows its preferences and takes Iowa State. The SEC swallows its preferences and takes either T.C.U. or Oklahoma State depending upon the scenario.

This takes into account no conference bias, deals in true compromise, and keeps true to maximizing the involved markets for all concerned.

Discuss without being a homer!