NU won't leave the B1G. University presidents, including NU's, rightly love the academic associations the conference provides, plus like H1 mentioned NU has been buying into the B1G (and thus why they have gotten smaller cuts of B1G revenue than the other schools previously) so if they did leave there would be extra entanglements, plus the B1GN GoR runs into the 2030s I believe. The B1G will do like they did for PSU in the east and add some schools in the west to help keep NU in fold and to quell some discontent from original B1G schools with the growing eastern influence IMO. I think they are going to put a full court press on OU and KU in the future, and maybe in the near future (before 2017), to get to 16. If they are successful, they will then turn their eyes on Texas, if the Longhorns are interested, and UT would be if OU and KU are there, plus academically Texas identifies more closely with the B1G than any other conference. But it is Texas. They will do their own thing in the end. They could end up anywhere when the dust settles.

I will agree on this though, the if any conference can reunite OU and NU that would be great for their bottom line and for CFB in general. The biggest mistake the B12 made was not ensuring that rivalry continued annually. If the SEC could pull that off more power to them.