If conferences were starting from scratch, wouldn’t they want to minimize the number of schools from the same state? I have wondered if the Pac-12 and Big 12 reshuffled and formed two ten team conferences with the Universities of Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Kansas, along with Cal and UCLA in one conference, and WSU, OSU, ASU, BYU, ISU, OK. State, TTech, along with Stanford and USC in the other conference, would both conferences be able to negotiate a similarly sized media rights deal and remain G5. In addition, you could have a conference challenge as every team has a state rival in the opposite conference with the exception of Colorado and Iowa State, and those two could rekindle it’s old Big 8 rivalry.