I will preface this by saying that I think this has the remotest of possibilities of occurring but I still think it's worth discussing:

The Pac 12 seems to struggle at two big things--getting a decent tv contact and putting teams in the playoffs. They've always enjoyed a close relationship with the Big Ten and Jim Delaney has always been interested in earning a buck any way possible. What if the Big Ten expanded its footprint and its BTN empire by hauling in the AAU schools from the Pac 12--Washington, Oregon, Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA. Arizona, and Colorado.

Does that bring in enough added revenue to justify a bold venture? It adds a ton of subscription fees in 5 western states, all with decent populations, and a marriage of two groups of schools that have long been enamored with one another. I think the Pac schools could pull this off as they'd represent two thirds of the conference membership and could pressure the other 4 to let them leave with a settlement as opposed to those 8 voting to disband the conference. The Big 12 could swoop in to add Utah, Washington St, Oregon St, and Arizona St if they saw fit or that group of 4 raids the MWC and BYU to get to 10 members and exists as a tweener conference.

The Big Ten devises a pod system for scheduling to make it work with 22 schools.