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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 129432532" data-attributes="member: 1428007">There are no "right" teams.  There are just teams.  Some are better fits than others, and when the conference expands they'll pick the best possible fits.  If they can get P5 teams then great.  That's not very likely though before 2025 but there are still reasons to grow and no reasons not to other than not having a round robin schedule which has not benefitted the conference--only led to losses for everyone each year.I haven't avoided any question, I've answered numerous times here and elsewhere as best as possible since I don't deal with fantasy, just what actually occurs.  Circumstances will determine when the conference will expand.  With OU likely making the playoffs, this puts the desired time period of after the Big Ten contracts are renewed back in play.  If they are left out again next year for not having a CCG or beating each other up, it may rear its head quickly again. If OU wins the mnc it may slow things down again for awhile.  All determined by circumstances which to date have not favored the BIG 12 very much.Any expansion though is going to take a couple of years to actually attain--schools don't generally leave right away--the extraction process takes a couple of seasons.  It will be announced prior to it actually occurring--probably a year or two in advance of the schools actually moving.Once the Big Ten contracts are done and the few stragglers understand that no one is leaving any P5 conference to join the Big Ten anytime soon, and other conferences like the ACC begin reacting, then the Big 12 will probably do something as well. In 2019 they have to renew bowl agreements and/or land new ones and by 2023 we can expect another assault from the Pac 12 as silly as that would appear.  The conference has to be prepared for these things, they can't wait until they happen or its already too late.</blockquote>

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