(08-29-2017 12:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-29-2017 12:29 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 12:28 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 11:36 AM)Soobahk40050 Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 08:48 PM)XLance Wrote:  You had better hope 15 is the number.
Kansas to the B1G.
Oklahoma to the SEC
Texas, TCU, and Texas Tech to the PAC
Notre Dame to the ACC

Everybody else heads to the American.

It seems to me (and I could be wrong), that the general consensus is that texas will wind up either in the SEC or the ACC? If that's the case, PAC might take Tech, TCU and Houston in a 15 team scenario.

That is possible. But, I'm still not sure the moves will be to 15. It would be the most efficient number with which to expand, but it is also probably the stickiest. There are too many ties that would have to be severed.

OK, then:
Kansas and Missouri to the B1G
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, West Virginia/Baylor to the SEC
Texas, TCU, Texas Tech, Rice/Houston to the PAC
Notre Dame, Cincinnati/UConn/West Virginia to the ACC
There are your moves to 16

Too Conventional:
The PAC doesn't expand. Why? Because they don't care about expansion and aren't football crazy. In fact they aren't sports crazy, just politically crazy.

Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to the SEC. Why? They are football crazy and identify more with the South.

The Big 10 adds Kansas pushes for Virginia Tech and settles for Connecticut. Why? Because they still want to pursue the Northeast if it kills them.

The ACC adds Cincinnati and West Virginia as full members and N.D. remains a partial. Why? You need new markets for the network and you will still be sucking up to N.D. at the end of the day.

T.C.U., Baylor, Kansas State and Iowa State join the AAC. Why? Because they nowhere else to go!

ESPN gets everything they care to own and that winds it up for quite sometime to come.

http://www.ocregister.com/2009/07/02/han...nd-future/
Q. In 1990, Arkansas jumped from the Southwest Conference to the SEC. That same year the ACC expanded and the Pac-10 took a look at adding Texas and Texas A&M. How close did the Texas schools come to joining the Pac-10?

A.It’s been a long time and memories do tricks to you but Texas was in my opinion based on communications, Texas was very interested and it thought initially might be able to come alone. Then about the time things were really getting serious it was made clear to us by Texas-Austin that it couldn’t get clear of A&M. We invited A&M but before we got a clear signal from A&M, Ann Richards who was then the governor said Baylor’s my alma mater and they’re going wherever Texas and Texas A&M go and then in a less clear message, but still pretty well defined, we were told the legislators who control the oil money that goes to the Texas universities was controlled either by alumni of or representatives of the area of Texas Tech and now there was a group of four and we were not interested in going from 10 to 14 so we said ‘thank you anyway.’ But Texas alone was very favorably inclined to consider our offer.