(05-07-2017 11:57 AM)GiveEmTheAxe Wrote:  I wouldn't want a permanent cross-over with Boise State just for the sake of completing a zipper. I think a scheduling agreement between the CA schools of the Pac and the MWC is about as far as it should go.

Yeah Stanford and USC were the hardest to come up with a compelling model. I debated 3 Utah schools with
Utah/Utah State
And BYU/Stanford

The scheduling agreement only works if they are on "equal P5 footing" of course if the PAC 12 took Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and maybe New Mexico (assumes West Virginia is out of the picture) you could get there with the Big 12.

Not that it would happen but say you also took Reno Hawaii and Houston and gave the Big 12 Washington State, Oregon State and Arizona State.

Then you have:
PAC-12. Big 12
Wash. Washington State
Oregon. Oregon State
Oklahoma Oklahoma State
Cal. Fresno State
UCLA. SDSU
Hawaii. UNLV
Reno Boise
Kansas. Kansas State
Arizona. Arizona State
Colorado. Colorado State
USC. Baylor
Stanford. TCU
Texas. Texas Tech
Utah. BYU
Houston. Iowa State

With bowl tie ins and cross over games it would generate interest I think.