the conference would be in a much better position to survive the departure of Texas and Oklahoma than they are currently.
After those intervening years, BYU and Cincy would now be considered legit P5 teams, and instead of losing 20% of your members, and only having 8 teams remaining, you'd have 10 teams, and the narrative would likely be who does the B12 get to replace UT and OU versus the B12 won't survive.