Upon disbandment, where should the other Big 12 teams go?

Texas Tech Red Raiders

TTU is the third and final team that has allegedly contacted the Pac-12 about joining their league, but they would not be a good fit.

The Red Raiders are just not competitive enough for even the Pac-12’s standards, and they rarely ever are. Surviving would be a struggle, as breaking even is a miraculous showing for them nowadays.

But despite all of this, the Pac-12 would most likely take them in anyway. The reason for this is that assuming the last three listed programs are scooped up by them as well, the conference would need one more school to make their final tally of members an even 16.

And while Boise State would maybe be a better choice, neither the Pac-12 nor the Broncos have seemed to ever desire to make that happen, so why would both parties do so now?

West Virginia Mountaineers

As one would expect with the member of a conference way out of its geographic range, West Virginia is expected to endure a fate different than those of all its Big 12 counterparts.

It has been claimed that WVU has reached out to the Atlantic Coast Conference in hopes of joining their arsenal, and that would make sense, considering that the state of West Virginia literally helps formulate the country’s Atlantic Coast.

The Mountaineers would get a more comfortable welcome there than anywhere else in the Power 5, along with having multiple former rivals present in the ACC already (i.e. Syracuse, Pittsburgh, etc.).

The Atlantic Coast Conference has always been in a sort of arms race with the SEC, so they should be busting their humps to, at the very least, match their number of members. And WVU would be a solid way to kickstart such a campaign.