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I know I brought Texas up....but I do agree with others that it's rather funny....yet I read about Texas all over the place with all of the expansion/domino affect speculation that is out there now. I've seen Texas associated with the B10, Pac-10, and going independent with their own TV contract....almost as if someone/somewhere views Texas as the Notre Dame of the Southwest or something.

Well, there's a lot of Texas fans that would like to see them go independent. However, I don't believe anyone in the administration really wants that. Also, if Texas leaves the Big 12, Texas A&M comes along. Trust me. You can't have one without the other. The only way I see Texas going anywhere is if the Big 12 loses multiple teams. If that doesn't happen, I don't see them going anywhere. It's always fun to speculate, though.

Texas is a wealthy university, and COULD join the Big Ten, but I think we all know that will never happen. Would be quite a monkeywrench in college football though.

The number of sports teams maintained for Men and Women by the 11 existing Big Ten schools and the schools getting the most consideration as a potential 12th member. The quality of those teams are not measured here and club teams have not been counted.

Ohio State....... 37
Boston College.. 29
Penn State....... 27
Minnesota........ 25
Michigan.......... 25
Maryland......... 25
Notre Dame...... 24
Wisconsin........ 23
Rutgers........... 22
Indiana........... 22
UCONN............22
Nebraska......... 21
Michigan State. 20
Iowa............... 20
Syracuse......... 20
Illinois............. 19
Northwestern... 19
Purdue............ 18
Missouri.......... 18
Pittsburgh....... 17

When PSU joined, they had to start programs in other sports per the B10's want.