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Hey C-Dub, good to see you back!  I was hoping to get your take.

I really do understand what you're saying about Texas as a conference mate, but think about it this way-- in the SEC, Texas won't be able to throw any weight around.  It's a well run and secure conference that doesn't need Texas.  There's simply no weight to throw around.  Adding Texas -- and OU of course-- is beneficial to the SEC.  But it's not necessary.  And that makes a huge difference.

I won't agree with every accusation leveled at us over the past few decades, but I will say that whatever tendencies might have existed when DeLoss (and then Patterson) were in charge, aren't likely to persist into a relationship with the SEC.

It's definitely going to be a wild ride.  I guess we'll see what happens.

Of course!

Yeah, I wish we could establish an annual OOC game with Nebraska.

But, and I don't mean any disrespect to the Huskers, they would need to get better for that to work.

OU would not benefit much from the game as an inroad into Nebraska HS talent.  It would have to be a game that in more years than not had national significance.

Right now, it's for old times' sake, for geezers like me who remember the great games of the '70s and '80s.  Young OU fans just remember that Nebraska used to be in the Big 12 (and probably don't even realize that the last CCG of the original Big 12 featured OU and Nebraska).

C'mon, Huskers!  Get good again!

I hope not.
Right now, oSu is throwing a hissy fit and making noises that they will never play OU again.
But the game does more for them than it does for OU.
The only game in which they fill their 60,000-seat stadium is the Bedlam game.
OU wins 80% of the time, but the wins don't matter, because that's how it's supposed to be.  When oSu wins, they can celebrate for decades.
Losing yet again doesn't hurt them.  There's always next year.
But I suspect that OU will be stuck playing them at least in some years.
If the move to the SEC takes place, and I assume that it will, OU will have some OOC slots to fill in the out years because right now LSU, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee are slotted for H&H series.  Maybe some of those slots would be filled with oSu.
So, I hope that OU offers to put oSu in those slots, and that oSu refuses.

P.S. About OU and FoSu splitting up, there's no state law that mandates that they have to be together. 

About which remaining Big 12 team would be the most B1G-like, I nominate Iowa State.  They are a little-brother program that doesn't seem to base its entire reason for existence on hating the state's flagship program.  Great fans, gritty teams, usually a tough out.  Everything to like about a team that does more with less.  They have beaten OU 2 out of the last 5 meetings.  And ISU has better academics than K-State.
ISU also has earned racial justice points.  It is the school that accepted George Washington Carver after a school in Kansas had turned him down once they saw the color of his skin.  And ISU's stadium is named for Jack Trice, the first Black athlete there, who died of internal injuries after a "rough" game at Minnesota.

I get your point about in-state rivalries, but this one is historically the most lopsided in all the land.  OU has won 81% of the games--90-18-7.  16 of the last 18.  18 of the last 22.  Much of the time, Oklahoma State was Oklahoma A&M College playing in the Missouri Valley Conference.  Cowboy football in the last 10 years is the best it has ever been.  But Boone Pickens--the great benefactor--has died, and his donations have all been spent.  Mike Gundy, the Cowboys' most successful coach ever, by far, isn't going to be there forever.  So the W-L record seems likely to get even more and more lopsided if the series is continued.
I imagine that there will be occasional, maybe even frequent, home-and-home series.  And that would be OK with me.  But I don't want to play them every year to the exclusion of better opponents for the marquee OOC game.
About which remaining Big 12 team would be the most B1G-like, I nominate Iowa State.  They are a little-brother program that doesn't seem to base its entire reason for existence on hating the state's flagship program.  Great fans, gritty teams, usually a tough out.  Everything to like about a team that does more with less.  They have beaten OU 2 out of the last 5 meetings.  And ISU has better academics than K-State.
ISU also has earned racial justice points.  It is the school that accepted George Washington Carver after a school in Kansas had turned him down once they saw the color of his skin.  And ISU's stadium is named for Jack Trice, the first Black athlete there, who died of internal injuries after a "rough" game at Minnesota.

The Texas and/or OU to the B1G thing is missing something:  recruiting. 
I think we here put too much emphasis on academics, which seems to be a pass/fail thing.  It does matter, of course, but if you're a Texas or an OU and you've got some newfangled conference games on the horizon, recruiting-wise, where do you want those to be? 
Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio?
or
Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida?
.
If you're a program and you'll be benefitting from greater exposure in certain states, that might be higher up the list than academics.