Big Ten Making Run At Texas

I actually love this idea if they are somehow able to pull it off. However, I’m guessing the fan base won’t go for it. For one, why would Texas want to leave the Big 12 when it is already perceived as surpassing the Big Ten in terms of better teams. The Big Ten outside of Big Ten country is seen as the 4th best conference these days behind the SEC, PAC 10 and Big 12, and that’s coming from a Michiganian, so I can only imagine what somebody from outside of the Big Ten states would think.
But this would definitely be welcome for Big Ten fans and the rest of true college football fans as it would do a big service for us all in an age when the BCS STILL does not utilize a playoff system in which a champion is decided on the battlefield because it would allow a perennial powerhouse with TONS of history and rivalries to go head on against what has traditionally been considered the black and blue conference of college football. It would for sure be interesting to see if Texas would run through the Big Ten like many would assume, or if they would succumb to the physical play of the Big Ten and lose a couple conference games, especially to borderline teams like MSU and Northwestern, as have the UofMs and OSUs of the conference have on occassion over the years.
Let’s hope as true fans something like this CAN happen, for the sake of helping us get a playoff if nothing else.
Bottom line: I think if Texas joins and loses 1 or 2 games, especially to anyone aside from OSU or maybe Penn St., it proves there’s WAY to much guess work in using strictly a point system to decide a champion. Instead use a 8 or 12 team (top 4 seeds would get a bye first week, keeping the regular season valuable) playoff system in which the BCS is still used to determine the 8 or 12 teams. This year would have been perfect for either, having 5 undefeated teams in or near the top 8.

If the Big Ten is actually trying to become the Big 16 or 18 and not the Big Twelve or something. If they add Missouri, and Texas A&M, and Pitt … then it starts to make a lot more sense.

… as the SEC inviting Southern Cal.

It’s about 850 miles from Austin to the closest Big Ten cities, Champaign and Iowa City. That would make Texas in the Big Ten geographically comparable to LA Tech in the WAC, with the shortest distance from Ruston to another WAC city (Las Cruces, NM) 820 miles.