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An unheralded candidate for Big 12 expansion?

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Is there an unheralded candidate for Big 12 expansion? Yes. And that school is Temple, Larry Atkins writes for Huffpost Sports. True enough, Atkins is an adjunct professor at Temple and Temple Law alum, but he has some valid points during his comparison of Temple and the other schools that are being thrown around as candidates.

Namely, Temple's TV market (Philadelphia) is the best of the bunch. Atkins goes into detail with various comparisons, but here's a small snippet of the piece:

"Temple blows most of the other candidates away on this criteria. The Philadelphia market is the fourth largest in the country, with over 2.