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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Sure.
West Virginia
TCU
Baylor
Texas Tech
Kansas State
Iowa State
Oklahoma State
+...
Cincinnati?
Houston?
BYU?
That's still a decidedly second-tier conference in hoops and football.
The ACC might lose a school or 2 to the B1G (because if the SEC goes to a 16-team super conference, leaving kansas' prestigious basketball program available, it makes sense for the B1G to gobble that up and find and expansionary partner, which likely ends up being North Carolina or Virginia or someone in the ACC northern footprint).
If the ACC is left in that spot, it then might be willing to open its doors to the Big 12 left-behinds, though there aren't any great cultural fits there.
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That's still the best non power league at that point. Those conferences just don't die. Their status does, but they don't. MVC is the original Big 8. Southern Conference is the original SEC and ACC. Hell the WAC couldn't even die.