(10-19-2018 09:02 AM)GO Coogs GO!!! Wrote:  

(10-19-2018 08:14 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(09-29-2018 06:18 PM)Poster Wrote:  I wonder what would have occurred if Texas politicians hadn't UT and A&M to go to the Big 8 in the 1990s since that was the only conference that would also take Texas Tech and Baylor.

I think Texas would have gone to the PAC 10 and TAMU would have gone to the SEC. I think Colorado would have been Texas' partner in the PAC and OU would have been TAMU's partner in the SEC. Nebraska would have joined the Big 10. (Note that, in real life, the Big 8 was in grave danger of losing members until the Texas schools joined.)


The remaining 11 Big 8 and SWC schools merge together to form this conference.
Texas Tech
Baylor
TCU
Houston
SMU
Rice
Missouri
Oklahoma State
Kansas State
Kansas
Iowa State

They might add BYU so they can get to 12 teams and a championship game.

Cool. What happened to Arkansas, though?

Arkansas left the conference in 1991 five years earlier.

The scenario seemed to be that the SEC went to 12 with OU and A&M instead of Arkansas and SC. Maybe they added all of them and went to 14.

SEC
Eastern: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee
Western: Arkansas, LSU, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt

Not bad. The only really necessary protected crossover is Tennessee/Vanderbilt, as I see it.