The College Football season usually begins with a bang on Labor Day weekend with a huge game involving ranked powers. As a sign of the times... the college athletics calendar kicks off with a move that wasn't-- and the dominoes remain standing.
Texas A&M apparently was packing its bags to leave the Big XII (a league with twelve in its title but ten in its membership) for the Southeastern Conference. Problem was the SEC met Sunday and decided not to expand-- leaving the Aggies in the land of AWKWARD as the school deals with its conference brethren. But the chance of expansion is the elephant in the room that's not going anyhere soon.
Does the Big XII need to get back to a full dozen to be viable? And which schools should they target? Memphis may be in Tennessee, but is popularly known as the capital of both Arkansas and Mississippi-- and with Fed Ex money the Tigers would be a decent addition to the Big XII North. Maybe take Houston as well from Conference USA? The Cougars have a history with the Texas schools having competed in the Southwest Conference from 1976-94.
As for the SEC expanding further, why mess with the perfect product? It's not like you're the NCAA looking to ruin my precious basketball tournament. Twelve seems to be the maximum workable number for an FBS conference... setting up interdivisional play better than 7 or 8 team divisions would. Bigger isn't better in college athletics. Ask the ACC going to a dozen so it could have a championship game nobody attends. Look at misguided attempts by the WAC and MAC in the '90s. Although the SEC could do just about anything and still make a lot of money.
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