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With BSU bolting their conference, The Big 12 could extend invites to Utah and TCU to fill in the spots Colorado and Nebraska left open. On a sheer football note, Utah is better than Coloradp, and TCU has an up and coming program. If I had my choice, this is my order of preference:

1. Save the Big 12.

2. Remaining Big 12 teams join the SEC

I just think a PAC-16 is ridiculous. Of course, I'd like nothing more than to see USC further diminished than it already is.

If they’re going to save the “Big 12” why not add SMU, Rice, Houston and BYU to your Utah and TCU. Lets face it this whole thing is about TV $’s so tieing up Dallas, Houston and the State of Utah would make the new conference a lucrative TV package.

Problem with Utah and TCU is they don't add anything to the TV market. There are more Horns, Aggies and Sooners in the metroplex than there are TCU fans, so they already own the metroplex. It's the same thing as FSU in the SEC. The SEC owns Florida. Any expansion MUST bring in new TV revenue.

I'm hearing more and more that A&M is going "D@mn tu, we want to go to the SEC!" I don't know if the legislature would allow it, but Rick Perry says he's staying out of it (A&M grad.) If Texas goes SEC, it will be a new world for them. They've been the dominant team forever, first in the SWC, then in the Big 12. There are too many good programs in the SEC for any team to completely dominate the conference. Everybody talks about the Texas egos, but the SEC teams have huge egos also, and there are too many excellent programs in the SEC for any single team to dominate. Consider Bama. As good as they are, they frequently end up getting pwned by Florida or LSU. Course, they return the favor, too. One thing I like about the SEC thing is that in the Big 12, all the teams raided Texas for their players. The SEC has their own high school football factories. If Texas and Oklahoma (followed by the other teams) go to the SEC, it would be difficult to imagine the SEC not winning the national title eight out of ten years. They already dominate the title game, and Texas and Oklahoma usually take what they don't.

I’ve heard that the Texas schools had originally wanted the Pac 10 to include Baylor along with the five other Big 12 South schools. It was noted a couple months ago that the Pac 10 wasn’t too excited about Tech either. Rumor has it that’s the reason the Pac 10 issued an invite to Colorado before anyone else because they wanted to make it clear Baylor wasn’t going to be issued an invite. Baylor is now lobbying furiously to keep the 4 Texas schools together and made it clear at the meeting yesterday with A&M and UT.

I’ve got a feeling the Texas Board of Regents isn’t going to be too happy with the Pac 10 sending out an invite to Colorado early and thus chopping up the Texas schools. I’m telling you Texas doesn’t like the Pac 10 dictating like this. The Pac 10 may have well shot themselves in the foot with the Colorado invite.