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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 1378022, member: 2141"] If the B1G adds a TX team, its going to be U Texas if Texas agrees to play nice with everyone else. The only other viable candidate in Texas would be A&M, which is already spoken for. Rice has the AAU cred and research dollars plus the Houston market; but, athletically, they look more like U Chicago and less like Northwestern. Neither Baylor nor TCU (throw SMU into this bucket, too) have AAU and they don't offer the B1G enough to get over that hump like Nebraska did. Texas Tech (US news #156) and U Houston (US News #189) makes Nebraska (US news #99) look almost Ivy league. I still think if OU and Kansas went to the B1G, Missouri could be lured to the B1G as those (along with Illinois) are their biggest rival and are culturally and academically closer tot eh B1G than the SEC. To address travel issues, if the B1G went to 20 and used a pod system, travel would basically be identical to the old XII with a 'South' pod in the B1G consisting of: 1) Texas, 2) Oklahoma, 3) Kansas, 4) Missouri and 5) Nebraska or Illinois. As for BYU, the B1G wants nothing to do with ND - which is basically a lager, more pretentious and way more valuable version of BYU. Thus, no chance BYU goes to the B1G. [/QUOTE]