It took all of a few days for a curious, seemingly outlandish thing to become a reality.
Texas and Oklahoma locked hands like Thelma and Louise and drove right the hell off the cliff of the Big 12. (Subsequent landslide ensues, as it did when Arkansas fled the Southwest Conference thirty years prior.)
In the fanciful, surreal SEC expansion tale unfolding this week, many new schedules are postulated, and one keeps emerging: an SEC West that consists of five of the present seven members, with OU and UT joining up and Missouri shifting over.
The SEC East would absorb Alabama and Auburn.