You can't blame WVU for jumping ship...they tried to get in the ACC...they tried to get in the SEC...so they tried the Big12 and finally found mutual interest (This is by no means "settling" with the Big 12...ACC and SEC were sought first for geography; when BE considered Boise, Air Force, Houston, SMU then travel considerations went out the window).

Oklahoma - 8 BCS appearances
Texas - 4 BCS appearances
WVU - 2 BCS appearances
TCU - 2 BCS appearances
Kansas - 1 BCS appearance
Kansas St - 1 BCS appearance

Look for Big 12 to expand by two more by 2014 with two from the list below...

Louisville
BYU
Cincy
Boise St
Air Force
South Florida
Tulane
Houston
SMU

Next dominos by December 1st or sooner...
1 - Mizzou to SEC, WVU to Big12
2 - Notre Dame (what to do now?)
3 - Big East expansion? (I expect them to add all three military academies when WVU leaves to get back to 8 teams)

2012...
1) SEC raiding ACC for two more teams?
2) ACC grabs UConn and Rutgers if SEC raids
3) BIG finally gets Notre Dame in all sports...needs one more to be even
4) Big 12 expansion with a conference championship game at Jerry's world

2016...
1) Does the Big 12 stay together if they don't expand to 12?
2) PAC expansion?
3) Playoff?

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Posted by 1999

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Posted on 10/25/11 at 2:10 pm to dholjes84

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Posted by Colonel Flagg

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Member since Apr 2010

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Posted on 10/25/11 at 4:42 pm to dholjes84

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1) SEC raiding ACC for two more teams?

There really is no reason to go to 16 teams for any conference as you ruin basically any relationship between divisions. It gets to the point where it is like having basically two old conferences play a post season game against each other before bowl season.

Hopefully the conferences max out at 14. That still can give you 6 division opponents, up to like 3 division opponents, and like 3 more OOC games. It would probably limit a NC team from playing more than 14-15 games a season.

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