Having been raised a Texas fan and loving the old SWC, I would hate to see them move to the ACC. My preference for them would be true independence like Notre Dame. That way, they could keep traditional rivalries they want to continue and schedule OOC nationally without restrictions.

That said, JR's SEC/ACC expansion scenarios make sense. But my personal preference -- without taking ESPN's desires into consideration -- would be a combination of schools that includes Kansas, Florida State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Duke to the SEC. Ideally, I would like to see them add four schools for three divisions of six teams. I assume Notre Dame would not be interested in joining the SEC and I also eliminate my preferred Florida State, North Carolina and Duke from the equation, since demographics, markets and footprint are more important in this discussion, as well as ESPN's interests and preserving a strong ACC. Therefore, I'd be willing to take Kansas, Oklahoma, NC State and Virginia Tech to form an 18-school SEC, leaving the ACC with 12 schools. If Texas were willing to forego independence to join the ACC, the conference could invite five other Big XII members to tag along. A western division of Texas, Baylor (or TCU or Texas Tech), Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Iowa State would have to make the stronger ACC football programs happy. I'd rather Baylor go east and have Texas Tech apply for PAC membership, since they were fired up about going there a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, that would likely leave the alma mater of several of my family members without a home - TCU.

TCU could reunite with Houston and SMU to reform the old SWC, which I would much prefer to a return to the Mountain West, CUSA or AAC membership.