BYU is 4-1 vs Texas
BYU is 2-0 vs Oklahoma
BYU is 2-1 vs Texas A & M

Perhaps those teams were per-emptively leaving because they don't want to face BYU.

Its a joke people, 97% a joke, maybe 3% true though. BYU has so thoroughly embarrassed both OU and TEXAS that I often wonder if that's why B12 programs have not wanted to schedule the Cougars much in the last 10 years. On the other hand, right now if they stay together they are all thinking, we need that kind of replacement.