Friday, June 11, 2010

Pac-10 now has 11 teams (so far)

Colorado joined the Pac-10 on Thursday, marking the first addition to the conference since the Arizona schools joined in 1978. Now Cal, Stanford and their West Coast colleagues are asking: Who's next?

With Nebraska perhaps poised to join the Big Ten, one possible scenario would be a 16-team Pac-10 "superconference" that would include all existing teams along with Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. That lineup would greatly strengthen the conference's leverage for new TV contracts that begin next year. The "Pac-16" could start playing football in 2012.

Much depends on what Texas and Oklahoma do once Nebraska makes its move, which could come as soon as today. Representatives from Texas and Texas A&M met Thursday to talk things over on a day full of unofficial reports. One of them had Oklahoma State deciding to join the Pac-10, which the school denied.

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