Auburn football: Imagining “Power Three” super conferences

The Pac-12 gets Big 12(‘s remains)

SEC analyst Jake Jboy Crain put out some goosebump-raising scuttlebutt about the Big 12 and Pac-12 potentially merging:

Kansas’ exclusion is shocking considering their basketball contributions. Ditto for Texas Tech. They’ll find a home, though. The programs have become too embedded into the fabric of the community to be left out in the cold.

In their place, former Big 12 member Nebraska could make its way west to clear up the clutter on the eastern half of the country. Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota could also make sense given the current size of the ACC and their placement on the map. This setup would effectively end much of the Big Ten’s lineage. OSU and UM arguably did 90% of that already if Jack McGuire is a soothsayer.

The full conference could look like this:

USC, Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, Washington, Washington State, Colorado, Utah, Stanford, Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Baylor, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Iowa State, West Virginia, Nebraska, and TCU.

Would it make sense even kind of geographically? Absolutely not. Morgantown, West Virginia, and Los Angeles are typically not thought of as sports rival cities.

Remember, though, this is a world where Auburn football potentially heads up to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Anything goes in the college football New World Order, brother.