RockyTopJA
Southern Discomfort
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I live in Big 12 country and the word on Missouri is not that they are upset about the Big 12 Championship game being in Texas. Mizzou plays Illinois every year to open the football season. Illinois is bringing in around $21M or more from the Big 10 contracts. The Big 12 only gives Mizzou $12M or so, while Texas and Oklahoma are the high earners. This thing is about money. However, a major hangup is that if Mizzou joins the Big 10, they would have to abide by the Big 10 rules on how they pay their professors and its been reported that Mizzou does not currently meet that mark. There is going to be a domino effect caused by whoever the Big 10 adds. The word in Big 12 country is that is Mizzou bolts, then the Big 12 would go after TCU and not Arkansas.
This. I've heard nothing about Ark getting a bid, but have heard several times that the Big 12 would go after TCU in order to grab one of the few up and coming mid-majors. Also heard that the PAC-10 will probably be looking at Boise and Utah in the near future as well to give them the teams necessary for a title game.