Bill Connelly of ESPN published a great piece today on the college football landscape in the face of the TX-OU SEC bombshell and made some GREAT points on why the Big 12's leftovers should stick together and add a few teams. Let's hope the B12 leftovers listen to this kind of logic. In his words:

"1. As things currently stand, the Big 12 still has Autonomy Five designation and could hold on to that by simply adding more teams.

2. If the proposed 12-team CFP indeed continues to give top seeds to conference champions only, a champion of this Big 12 would have excellent odds of regularly earning playoff byes.

3. Travel costs would be cut immensely. That will obviously have to be taken into consideration even if a Pac-18 would result in more incoming revenue.

4. Adding Cincinnati, BYU, Memphis and maybe others to a conference with perhaps Oklahoma State, Iowa State, TCU, etc.? Are you kidding me? This conference would be fun as heck! That's not to say that we wouldn't get some fun Oklahoma State-Oregon matchups or something with a Pac-12 merger, but this new Big 12 would have a football identity, tight and meaningful conference races and quite a bit of quality. Last year's conference race, for instance, could have featured teams ranked seventh (BYU), eighth (Cincinnati), 11th (Iowa State) and 23rd (Oklahoma State) in SP+."