I’d love nothing more than for the PAC to succeed, but that ship sailed off with USC and UCLA and what we’re left with is slowly sinking. It may not sink today or in the next year, but it WILL sink.
Beyond that, I’d love an invite to the B1G, but they’re dragging their heels about Oregon and Washington, what are our real chances anytime soon there? Besides that they’re distracted with what’s happening in the ACC. We might still get an invite to the B1G someday, but not if we go down with what’s left of the PAC before then.
Is the Big12 ideal? Not really ideal, but they by far make up for it with having a more passionate fan base than the majority of the PAC. That is very attractive to me. The media contract is a known quantity which is more attractive than the PAC will probably end up with. I never really understood East-coast bias until I lived out east but people out here are more aware of Big12 teams than PAC teams. Partly thanks to better game time slots. I know we don’t want it to look like we’re following our little brother to the Big12, but the last thing we should want is for our relevance to sink below them because we were too good for the folks in the Big12. Let’s leave that to Cal and Stanford…
I vote to jump to the Big12 before it’s too late.
Utah @ 
Baylor 
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