Of those 3, Oklahoma would be the most viable

While Clay Travis is just now focusing on it, I made the point of content back in 2009 and 2010. The classic example is Notre Dame, who got both sides of the bread buttered.

Notre Dames football deal is for a few games and a few months. In this case the single school model works for them because it is limited to a single sport and a single quarter on the calendar. They sell those rights to NBC and NBC airs those games. Now suppose NBC had a deal like the LHN and had to fill a devoted channel with 24 hour year round live programming of Notre Dame sports. It would be a disaster of epic proportions.

Notre Dames conference deal is year round via ESPN. Now you can say the ACC has no ACCN but the reality is the ACCN has been there all along since the beginning of ESPN in the late 70's and early 80's. From that time forward ESPN has been "all in" with the ACC so an ACCN is a bit redundant. With the Irish now in the ESPN fold for all non football sports they get their "live content" mixed with the other ACC schools on a 24 year round cycle.

Now it would be my guess the Irish make more on the NBC deal than they make from conference membership in the ACC but being in the ACC allows non football national airtime for all the other Irish sports. However, the free exposure on ESPN on a daily and monthly basis is worth probably more than the money they give up in better exposure. Think of the SEC CBS contract not rising in value with TAMU and MU but being kept because of the non monetary exposure the SEC gets from CBS.

In case you have not followed college sports on ESPN outside of college football, Notre Dame is getting lots of love and exposure on both ESPN's family of networks AND their ESPN website. It seems like this has grown since realignment talk first started and has increased since Notre Dame parked their non football sports in the ACC.

While Oklahoma (the state) is much smaller than South Carolina (Clempson) or Florida (Free Shoes U) they do fit the SECN sports content better when viewed on a full year cycle for live programming. In addition it means new TV viewers instead of cannibalizing existing viewers in SC and FL. Even if the Taters or Crab Rapers never got SEC membership, they will still watch SECN because they want to watch the Cocks and Gators lose. Roughly 1/3 to 2/3 of Notre Dame football viewers are folks tuning in hoping the Irish lose.

Hogs would love a real border state rival that so far has not materialized with Missouri and Texas hate in Arkansas still seems stronger that the hate with TAMU. Oklahoma would fill this void for the Hogs and give the rest of us on tRant a breather. OU + MU = 2 Big 8 offset by UAF + TAMU = 2 SWC would balance the vortex of non charter SEC schools into the fold of SEC membership.

The best part of this would be no invite to conference wrecker Texas and little brother Oklahoma State. Red River Rivalry would now be SEC vs ??? and Bedlam would be SEC vs ?? as a western equivalent to the 4 ACC vs SEC games you have in the east. The SECN sports of football, volleyball, w gymnastics, m basketball, w basketball, baseball, and softball all fit Oklahoma's current college sports mix.