What If UT, AM, and OU leaves the Big 12

[UNLV]

If UT, AM, OU leaves Big 12..
Big 12 replace them with BYU, Air Force, New Mexico.

Texas tech, Baylor leaves Big 12 because Big 12 foot print outside recruiting area. Big 12 replace them with Colorado st, Wyoming.

UNLV & San Diego joins PAC 10.

MWC no more...

TCU joins Tech and Baylor in Southwest conference
Every school market is over 300,000 in population except Texas tech and Baylor
Surely a tv deal for this conference.
I wouldn't be surprised if OK st replace Rice in this conference because they get their recruits from Texas.


UH 5.5 million
MEM 1.2 million
UAB 1.1 Million
UTSA 1.9 Million
UTEP 700K
UNT 6 million
LU 405K
Texas tech 261K
Baylor 226K
TULANE 1 million
TULSA 900K
RICE 5.5 millioin
TCU 6 million

18 MILLION
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new Big 12

Kansas
Kansas st
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa st
Colorado
Colorado st
Air Force
BYU
Wyoming
New Mexico
Ok st

[KFDM COOP]

:o

[UNLV]

My reasoning...
Take out privates..

If Memphis can't get in the Big East, Memphis needs to join Houston and other big Metro-schools.

Memphis
U-Houson
North Texas DFW area
UTSA San Antonio area
UTEP El paso area
UAB Birmingham area

These 6 schools represent 15 million people. However a conference needs more than 6 teams.
Why would ok st, Texas tech, and Baylor leave the Big 12?
If UT, AM, and OU leave the Big 12, the population base shift from Texas to the midwest.
Ok st, Texas tech, and Baylor would find it harder to recruit out of Texas. Those school would be in a position of having to choose between being in the Big 12 and lower quality of recruits or drop a conference level and keep the quality. Texas population is the fastest growing. Long term, the Southwest conference could surpass the big 12 in football.

Memphis
UH
UAB
UNT
UTSA
UTEP
Texas Tech
OK st
Baylor

[Tiger90]

Unless I missed something where did UT,A&M, and OU go?

[UNLV]

SEC....  If this should happen, the SEC will be in a class all it's own.