Expansion rumors are both fun during the off season as well as exhausting in trying to keep up with all the angles and rumors that are flying around. The latest is Texas to the Big 10. Whaaat! According to the Lawrence Journal-World this is more then the speculative rumor that had Nevada, Boise State, and Fresno State to the Mountain West:
A source with ties to the Big Ten said that while most people's attention has been trained on the conference stealing Missouri, the Big Ten has engaged in "preliminary exchanges" with a much bigger fish from the Big 12.
"There have been preliminary exchanges between the Big Ten and Texas," the source told the Journal-World on Wednesday. "People will deny that, but it's accurate."
Again with a source but the line there have been preliminary exchanges between the Big Ten and Texas is quite intriguing and not too far fetched that Texas would jump to the Big 10. When the old SWC broke up Texas was close to joining the Pac-10. Today's landscape is different with billions of dollars on the line in television deals. This makes sense to the Big 10 and especially the Big 10 Network to land the most coveted school in the land -- yes more coveted then Notre Dame -- and all the eyeballs in Texas.
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