A week after I wrote about how glad I am that the Big 12 and Pac-12 never linked up, it appears that the Big 12 and Pac-12 are thinking about … linking up (albeit with much, much lower stakes than a conference merger).
There was a fascinating story in The Mercury News this week about what a Big 12-Pac-12 scheduling alliance would look like. The entire notion stemmed from a wild idea that the Big 12 could or should schedule all 30 of its non-conference games against Pac-12 teams with an across-conference championship game (what?