I love college football. I love all kinds of (North American) football. My wife cringes when September rolls around because I’ll have as many as four football teams playing any given weekend*. However, it’s June, not September, so we should be talking about the Stanley Cup Finals, not college football.
But all that changed recently with potential conference expansion talks heating up. Now, this may all be nothing but hype, but it’s fascinating nonetheless; way more fascinating than talk of expanding NCAA men’s basketball tournament from 65 team to 96 (they expanded to 68 instead *yawn*). The two big players in this game are the Big 10 and Pac 10 conferences. The dominoes start falling (or not) depending on the actions of either or both conferences.
With that in mind, let’s play a game. How will all this shake down?** When the dust settles, how will the American college football landscape look? This is just for fun, but I reserve the right to brag mercilessly if my predictions are right. 
The most interesting character in all this is Texas, coveted by both the Big Ten and Pac 10. So as part of my game, I’m going to give two scenarios: where the Big 10 acts first and where the Pac 10 acts first. The main assumption of this game is that Texas will be landed by whoever acts first. Another assumption will be each conference is limited to a maximum of 16 schools. I will provide a list of the new conference layout with teams new to that conference in bold.
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