The unthinkable happened over this past week, as the two faces of the Big 12 — Texas and Oklahoma — are now expected to leave the conference for greener pastures.
The two schools have been laying the groundwork for the past six months to join the SEC, which per multiple reports by ESPN and Austin American-Statesman, Texas A&M was not aware of.
Realignment was bound to happen again, but no one was expecting it to happen this soon.
Not to mention, many assumed that the Big 12 would try to add two more teams to fill up the conference. There were some very impressive candidates available that would have made sense to join the Big 12, but now that Texas and Oklahoma are leaving, there is a firm belief by experts everywhere that this is it for the Big 12.
Now, it has left the other eight schools in a dilemma. Do they wait to see if the Big 12 can wrangle up four more teams, or do they be proactive in an attempt to join another conference? I personally think they should just begin their searches for a new conference before they’re left behind.
With that being said, I’ll take my best shot at predicting where each of the remaining teams in the Big 12 could end up.