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Briggs: As realignment ramps up, could Toledo leave the MAC?

Anything is possible.

With Oklahoma and Texas prepared to toss a firecracker on the gasoline-soaked bridge behind them (sorry, Big 12) as they maniacally laugh their way to SEC riches — and as college athletics devolves into a full-on Hunger Games — it’s become the stock administrative answer to all speculation on the next move in realignment.

Will the Big 12 leftovers be hunters or scatter like birdshot? Will the Big Ten pillage the Pac-12 and form the first coast-to-coast superconference? Will the sun swallow the Earth?

“At this point and in this era,” Toledo athletic director Mike O’Brien said this week, “there’s nothing that can be proclaimed to be off the table for any league or any institution.