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[QUOTE="All4SU, post: 21258, member: 381"]
Have to think the SEC will move forward to add 1 -- probably Missouri as has been rumored. Mizzou is in a difficult spot now, if they are waiting on the B10, they may have to wait a long time with no guarantees. At least the SEC gives them something -- namely the strongest FB conference in the country, even if it isn't Mizzou's first choice. (See B10)

No one in the B12 (Big9) besides Missouri is going to do anything right now. They are all going to wait on Texas. Ok and OkSt would jump at an offer from the P12 if it came right now. But that looks like a non-starter for the time being.

TCU has to be thinking long and hard about the choice they made. They might be better off aligning with the B12(9), and I have to think that that Conference would take them right now to bolster FB, and simply increase their numbers. While the BE may offer TCU a more direct path to the BCS, it doesn't position them any better for a subsequent move to the SEC or something else better. There may yet be a 5th superconference, and if there is, middle-America is the place to be.

The Big East is in a bind. Without the strong possibility of grabbing up teams from the B12(9) now, they are left to consider teams currently out of the BCS mix: UCF, ECU, Memphis, (and other assorted ConfUSA teams) plus Army, Navy, Airforce. At the same time, they don't want to increase their numbers to the extent that they hinder a possible merger with the B12(9) leftovers down the road. They really don't want to get larger than 9 or 10 FB playing teams.

My guess is that they convince TCU to stay on board (bad move for TCU), and swallow hard and take UCF into the BE to get to 9.
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