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I'll let the back East conferences settle their own problems under this 64-team/ 4 conference system.
Does this mean we replay the situation from not long ago when the Pac12 was formed and Big 12 was on the menu?  Only this time the Stalin/Hitler-like scenario of dividing up the Big 12 between three neighboring conferences?

Texas/ Texas Tech/ Oklahoma/  (wildcard!) BYU  to P12  [lots of reasons why absorbing UT would be like eating a spikey bowling ball for P12, but  UT would have 2 choices: SEC or P12.  If Texas goes rogue, or joins SEC  (if only to restore rivalry w/ Texas A&M)  Then the P12 choices look a little less epic. 

Well, this was fun exercise.  But it's a reason to think the 4 conference/64 team thing might not happen, if only because it's hard to see Texas swallowing its pride and joining either P12 or SEC. Just not in their genetic makeup to not be the Big Dawg.  Actually, there's resistance in other regions, too.  But megabucks talk and bull**** walks so maybe it will happen.

Don't think Boise St. fits the standards for P12.  They've been punching above their weight for the Petersen years, but they don't fit athletically or academically with the P12... and Petersen is now in Seattle.

[Redrum]

I'll let the back East conferences settle their own problems under this 64-team/ 4 conference system.
Does this mean we replay the situation from not long ago when the Pac12 was formed and Big 12 was on the menu?  Only this time the Stalin/Hitler-like scenario of dividing up the Big 12 between three neighboring conferences?

Texas/ Texas Tech/ Oklahoma/  (wildcard!) BYU  to P12  [lots of reasons why absorbing UT would be like eating a spikey bowling ball for P12, but  UT would have 2 choices: SEC or P12.  If Texas goes rogue, or joins SEC  (if only to restore rivalry w/ Texas A&M)  Then the P12 choices look a little less epic. 

Well, this was fun exercise.  But it's a reason to think the 4 conference/64 team thing might not happen, if only because it's hard to see Texas swallowing its pride and joining either P12 or SEC. Just not in their genetic makeup to not be the Big Dawg.  Actually, there's resistance in other regions, too.  But megabucks talk and bull**** walks so maybe it will happen.

Don't think Boise St. fits the standards for P12.  They've been punching above their weight for the Petersen years, but they don't fit athletically or academically with the P12... and Petersen is now in Seattle.