University of Nebraska is the first school from the Big 12 to declare they are switching conferences as they accepted an invitation on Wednesday to join the Big 10. The Big 12 gave Nebraska and Missouri until Friday to decide whether they were staying or leaving, Missouri is expected to follow suit and go to the Big 10. College football expansion could be considered something like a chess match, only its two against one, Big 12 vs Pac 10 and Big 10. This has been a slowly developing process but Big 12 lost one of their pawns early in Nebraska. The other pawn Missouri is expected to trade sides as well when they get a formal invitation to join the Big 10. The Pac 10 is ready to kill the whole other side with one fell swoop and to capture the queen in the process. Texas is the queen piece and when the longhorns decide to leave then what we know as the Big 12 would be of no more. According to sources on Wednesday that seems very likely with a quote coming from Texas athletics department telling their players and coaches "We tried to save the Big 12." Looks like the queen gave its all but in the end it was not enough and college football sooner rather than later is going to be going under a major change.
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