(11-03-2020 04:07 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  OK, a modification of the present-day alignment in the OP based on Kansas being selected as the final team for the Pac-16 over Utah:



Since Utah doesn't leave the MWC, neither does BYU. This means SJSU and USU are SOL when WAC FB collapses.

I don’t see the Big East football schools leaving the Big East to join ISU, K St, Baylor, and presumably TCU in that shell.

The Big East has the numbers and stability—those 4 were going to be moving to the Big East and it was widely rumored that the Big East was in contact with those Big 12 schools about membership.

Plus you have to think that with 9 schools (75%) wanting out they’d simply disband the conference.

I still expect the Pitt/Cuse ACC move happening a year later and then Maryland/Rutgers the year after. I still see the loss of Pitt/Cuse/Rutgers/WVU/ND triggering a Catholic 7 departure and the existence of an AAC (maybe they assume the now defunct Big 12 name) but unless things were sped up and the subsequent ACC and Big 10 moves occurred within days or weeks of the PAC 16, Big 10 round 1, and SEC moves I think Baylor, TCU, ISU, and K St all end up in the AAC by way of the old Big East.

The only way I see the Big 12 she’ll surviving is if ND and the Catholic 7 gave the BE football 8 their blessing to move over starting the 2011 season AND making that move made the Big East football schools more money than staying put.