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Jul 26, 2021
2:06:29pm
AZcougLawyer All-American
A somewhat interesting and competitive conference for BYU.
Granted, this wouldn't be the best case scenario — but we're not likely to get the best-case scenario. This could only happen if none of the remaining Big 12 schools get poached.

Big 12 West:

1. BYU
2. Texas Tech
3. Baylor
4. TCU
5. Kansas State
6. SDSU
7. Boise State
8. UNLV (if there's any Allegiant stadium benefit)
9. CSU

Big 12 East:

10. Kansas
11. Oklahoma State
12. Iowa State
13. West Virginia
14. Houston
15. Cincinnati
16. UCF
17. USF
18. Memphis (or another).

Benefits: The Big 12 brand is kept. Conference championship game. This would not be an uninteresting conference. BYU could play all 8 other teams in the west, plus 2 in the East, plus 2 interesting nonconference games each year (think Utah and USC).

It covers the whole country, but travel is limited. It would enjoy a certain amount of prominence as a conference. You could compare it to the WAC-16, but times are different and it would clearly be better in some ways. (Maybe the PAC explodes and Utah is forced to join?).

Granted, this only works if the elites don't totally break away. And if it's not an "Autonomy" conference, that would presumably suck.

The money for each team would be less than what the Big 12 is getting — but maybe $10 Million per year per team?
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