re: Any Ideas on what happens to the Big12 and PacW?

The 12 needs to drop WV and UC and go get AZ, AZ State, Utah, Colorado while they can.

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I feel like the Big 12 raids and gets a few schools like Colorado, Utah, Memphis, Boise etc. Don't feel like they're going down any time soon, they seem stable and are in the position to take a G5 school

The Pac-10 is just dead

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If this was a steel cage death match, my money would certainly be on the Big XII, but I'm not sure it will come down to that. I think the Big XII is on more stable footing, but I doubt that their position is strong enough to lure any Pac-12 teams unless that league just totally implodes (which could happen, but hasn't yet).

I don't see Colorado being first to leave the Pac-12; that's where they have always wanted to be, and they get a lot of their students from California. Besides, they really bring very little to the table. They are overshadowed by the Broncos, who cast one of the longest shadows in the NFL (they dominate Denver and the RM region in a way that other NFL teams do not), and, outside Denver, there's a lot of empty spaces around CU.

Utah probably will be happy to be in a different conference from BYU, as long as there is no compelling economic reason for them to jump.

The Arizona schools look to California, like CU, and don't want to recreate the old Border Conference that they once shared with Texas Tech.

Oregon and Washington would be somewhat attractive if they were located in the Midwest -- in the Pacific Northwest, they just don't bring enough to be worth the trouble.