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Big 12 Expansion: Boise State, West Virginia Among Candidates, According To Report

Just when you think college conference realignment has settled down for a spell, Jon Wilner of the Mercury News goes and reports that the Big 12 is thinking about adding the Boise St. Broncos, BYU Cougars, Louisville Cardinals and West Virginia Mountaineers in the event that the Missouri Tigers leave for the SEC. Moving along, there ... no, wait.

That's a whole lot of information to just drop off in one space. Mizzou to the SEC still seems quite possible, even with the SEC's refrain about being happy with a lucky 13 teams. Louisville, WVU and BYU have been rumored Big 12 targets, with the Cougars reportedly the league's most coveted prize and the interest appearing to be mutual.

But Boise State and West Virginia in the same conference? If you need to lie down, that's fine. It's a report of a plan that's being considered in case a potential event occurs, which is sufficiently far away from actually happening that we may have time to prepare ourselves.

The last round of Big 12 expansion reports had the TCU Horned Frogs in the running as well, with Oklahoma reportedly favoring them and Texas reportedly getting over ... not favoring them. According to Wilner, that's not the case.

Check out the SB Nation communities for each of these schools: Boise State blog One Bronco Nation Under GodLouisville blog Card ChronicleWest Virginia blog The Smoking Musket and BYU blog Vanquish The Foe.

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WVU is too far?

BYU, TCU, AF makes 12
with contingencies for Boise State and Louisville to go to 14

by fracas on Sep 28, 2011 8:45 AM EDT reply actions  

I suppose it's no crazier than....

Hawaii and La Tech being in the same conference.

by AllTideUp on Sep 28, 2011 6:05 PM EDT reply actions  

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