Barry Trammel on BYU's Big 12 chances

[MikeWaters]

* Louisville’s options just improved. The Cardinals have been the odd school out. The best football school, along with Brigham Young and Boise State, not in one of the power conferences. Suddenly, there’s an opening in the ACC, and various reports point to Louisville or Connecticut as the prime ACC targets.

The Big 12 could expand to 12 and not have a championship game, but that opens the possibility of an unclear champion — the Big Ten had a few of those fiascos — which is bad for business. If the Big 12 wants to go past Louisville, I think BYU and Cincinnati are the primary options.

BYU, I’m sure you know all about. Geographically, it’s a tough sell, since the Big 12 moved East. Norman is five miles closer to Provo, Utah, than Norman is to Morgantown, W.Va. and Stillwater is 32 miles closer to Morgantown than Stillwater is to Provo. In other words, it’s a long way from Morgantown to Provo. Plus, BYU has independence issues; even when the Brighams aren’t an independent, they don’t have a good reputation for playing nice with others in their conference.

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