I wonder if Texas and the Pac >12 would want a couple of other Texas schools for travel considerations as well as Texas not scaling too far back on playing in the state:


Northwest - Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State
Southwest - Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas Tech, TCU
Mountain - Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Arizona State
Coastal - California, UCLA, Southern California, Stanford

Texas would get six games - everyone in the Southwest quad, and one each from the other three quads; this also gives them a minimum of three games (four if their home games with Texas Tech and TCU are staggered) in the state of Texas.

If the Pac could bury the hatchet with BYU, it could do the same arrangement with them, and then 12 of the 16 football members have ten games. We know Norte Dame will typically be good for two Pac games (USC and Stanford), so they could be excluded from the tenth game arrangement. At that point you wonder if Texas and BYU would be asked for a seventh game to accomodate the rest of the conference.