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Topic: The Death of College Football - Realignment, NIL, Portal, Etc.

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utee94

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« Reply #3668 on: May 04, 2026, 03:09:54 PM »
Only 4 Texas schools were in the B12 from 1996-2011.  All the rest were in the WAC, MWC, Big West, C-USA, and perhaps some others.
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« Reply #3669 on: May 04, 2026, 03:49:12 PM »
TCU, SMU and Rice all went to the WAC with UTEP initially. Houston went to CUSA. 

Forgot about UNT moving up from IAA to join the Big West.
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« Reply #3670 on: May 04, 2026, 03:57:54 PM »
UNT was in the Big West, Sun Belt, and Conference USA over the years.  Now they're in the AAC apparently.

UTSA and Texas State both moved up to D1-A/FBS in 2012, according to the internet.  So the Texas schools are not only fragmented among numerous conferences, but there are also more of them in FBS now, than there were back when the B12 was formed.

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« Reply #3671 on: May 04, 2026, 04:25:02 PM »
Texas, the state of conferences. 
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« Reply #3672 on: May 04, 2026, 05:13:03 PM »
Or confusion....and oil & Tito's
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« Reply #3673 on: May 05, 2026, 01:30:32 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on May 04, 2026, 03:57:54 PM
UNT was in the Big West, Sun Belt, and Conference USA over the years.  Now they're in the AAC apparently.

UTSA and Texas State both moved up to D1-A/FBS in 2012, according to the internet.  So the Texas schools are not only fragmented among numerous conferences, but there are also more of them in FBS now, than there were back when the B12 was formed.


The Big West essentially morphed into the Sunbelt. 

The final Big West season was 2000, and the first Sunbelt season was 2001, with pretty much the same teams. 
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« Reply #3674 on: May 05, 2026, 06:44:30 AM »
Imagine the politickin' back then - Texas Tech and Baylor in, TCU, SMU, and Houston (and others) left out.

I guess a recent death penalty made that an easy call, but if it had all happened 10 years earlier....
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« Reply #3675 on: May 05, 2026, 07:11:16 AM »
Rice also got left out.
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« Reply #3676 on: May 05, 2026, 11:22:30 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on May 05, 2026, 06:44:30 AM
Imagine the politickin' back then - Texas Tech and Baylor in, TCU, SMU, and Houston (and others) left out.

I guess a recent death penalty made that an easy call, but if it had all happened 10 years earlier....
Lotta people think it ws Texas governor Ann Richards who pushed Baylor into the B12.  She laughed at the notion, it was never a concern of hers.

It was actually Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock, who held degrees from both Baylor and Texas Tech, who strong-armed the administrations in Austin and College Station into  bringing those two along.  At the time, he was possibly the most powerful Texas politician since LBJ.
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« Reply #3677 on: May 05, 2026, 06:25:25 PM »
gee, I erroneously blamed DeLoss Dodds???

shame on me
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« Reply #3678 on: May 05, 2026, 07:47:47 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on May 05, 2026, 06:25:25 PM
gee, I erroneously blamed DeLoss Dodds???

shame on me
Tom Osborne sucks
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« Reply #3679 on: May 05, 2026, 09:33:41 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on May 05, 2026, 06:44:30 AM
Imagine the politickin' back then - Texas Tech and Baylor in, TCU, SMU, and Houston (and others) left out.

I guess a recent death penalty made that an easy call, but if it had all happened 10 years earlier....
And now years later 8 out of 9 members of the SWC ended up in a P4 conference.  All except for Rice.

Tex, Tex A&M, Ark --> SEC
TT, Bay, TCU, Hou --->  Big 12
SMU ---> ACC
Rice --->  American
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« Reply #3680 on: May 05, 2026, 10:42:46 PM »
too smart for their own good

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« Reply #3681 on: Today at 09:20:46 AM »
Rice isn't even good at baseball anymore.  
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