(02-03-2018 05:57 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I have to think if the Oklahoma schools go to the SEC Texas is going to have to think long and hard about joining them too. All the schools they'd like to be playing--Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Arkansas would all be there.

While in state, Tech, TCU, and Baylor are not giant rivalries for the burnt orange. The Big Ten can't provide them with traditional rivals or accomodate the secondary rivals they still have in the Big 12.

The SEC is going to win the realignment game when the Big 12 GOR expires. The Big Ten is going to have to hope they can get ND and the choice Pac 12 schools to keep pace.

Absolutely right on the B1G. And the B1G probably won't want OU for other reasons. So unless Texas goes to the SEC, they would have to hope they can attract PAC teams to join them in the B12 or wind up being Snow White to the 7 dwarves once OU and OK State head east. Is Texas' ego big enough that they'd turn down the SEC's offer? It could be. It's big enough that they would regret it, but never admit that they do.