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<blockquote data-quote="Samuel S" data-source="post: 129453962" data-attributes="member: 1754664">Without question, the&nbsp; Big 12 is the P5 conference in the most precarious position. That only becomes a factor though if the P5 consolidates into a P4.For whatever reasons, the schools in the&nbsp; broad Southwest&nbsp; have always been in shifting alignment. Even the original Big 12 was a marriage of convenience.&nbsp; 3 of the 4 schools that left the Big 12 after it formed,&nbsp; came from the old Big 8. Only Texas A&amp;M was among the SWC schools absorbed into the Big 12, but the early and recent history of schools in that broad&nbsp; region shows change has been the one constant.&nbsp; If you look at all the schools that played in either the SWC or the Big 8 during the modern era,&nbsp;&nbsp; Arkansas, Houston, Rice, SMU, Houston, Texas A&amp;M, Nebraska, Colorado and&nbsp; Missouri now play somewhere other than the Big 12. Additionally, OSU was in both the SWC and Big 8, and TCU played in the WAC, CUSA and the MWC in addition to joining (but never playing in) the Big East after the SWC collapsed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether this means anything is debatable, but over the past 100 years Baylor is the only school that has been in the same conference with Texas the entire time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Samuel S, post: 129453962, member: 1754664"] Without question, the Big 12 is the P5 conference in the most precarious position. That only becomes a factor though if the P5 consolidates into a P4. For whatever reasons, the schools in the broad Southwest have always been in shifting alignment. Even the original Big 12 was a marriage of convenience. 3 of the 4 schools that left the Big 12 after it formed, came from the old Big 8. Only Texas A&M was among the SWC schools absorbed into the Big 12, but the early and recent history of schools in that broad region shows change has been the one constant. If you look at all the schools that played in either the SWC or the Big 8 during the modern era, Arkansas, Houston, Rice, SMU, Houston, Texas A&M, Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri now play somewhere other than the Big 12. Additionally, OSU was in both the SWC and Big 8, and TCU played in the WAC, CUSA and the MWC in addition to joining (but never playing in) the Big East after the SWC collapsed. Whether this means anything is debatable, but over the past 100 years Baylor is the only school that has been in the same conference with Texas the entire time. [/QUOTE]

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