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With all the talking and moving as of late, there is really only one question left.

Where all this rubble will end up, and where do the recruiting wars start and end?

Well, at first, we really need to talk about the real Super Powers of recruiting land.

Those lands consist of the following:

• Florida, along with the Southeast up to the Carolinas
• Texas
• Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and everything north of the Carolinas
• California

Not much middle in their either, including my beloved Huskers.

So the real question is, who will benefit most from the now assumed collapse of the Big 12?

I'll roll through the conferences/areas first.

Big 10:   Nebraska wasn't a great get for the Big 10 regarding national recruiting.  However, with the addition of Nebraska, it offers the Big 10 a much bigger national audience, which is now much more interested in the conference.  The Huskers obviously have a long history of plucking kids from anywhere and everywhere.  Now the Big 10 can use those pipelines that the Huskers have utilized over the past 50 years.

SEC:   Sacred grounds.  The SEC is on the high horse right now, and they don't have anybody 'plucking' their schools for expansion. 

At least for now.  (Kidding) 

The SEC has the coverage of the southeast, which is some of the richest recruiting grounds in the entire country, from Florida up to the Carolinas and even into Texas on the west end. 

Population is moving to this area, and obviously they are now the latest that are coming towards the thoughts of expansion. 

And why not, when you are on top, just sit and stay as your are, and bring in schools like Miami and Florida State to complete the Florida trifecta, and then even Georgia Tech from a geographical stance?

Pac 10:  California.   Home of some of the best QB's and specialty player athletes that college football has ever seen.  We have all seen the dominance that USC put on the Pac 10 over the past 8 years.  Now the question is really open as to how they can sustain the power if Texas, OU, and their buddies  (Texas Tech and Oklahoma State)  join the Pac 10 when they are going to be at their all-time down?

But in reality, who was USC from 1980 to 2001?  It isn't like USC hasn't ran through some lean years in college footbal history either.

Look for UCLA to be the biggest benefactor of this move. 

Texas:   Home of the proudest high school football nation in the entire world.  They have stadiums that seat up to 45,000 for some schools.  Bigger than even Boise State's stadium, and it isn't even close.  And that is for high school football.

If they are to enter the Pac 10, I assume unwillingly, they will now give up their green pasture of recruits to a whole new world of schools begging to peck from their wealth.

One would think a union between California and Texas recruits would suit this conference well?  Wouldn't it?

Sounds nice and all, but what about the travel?  What about the Pac 16 Conference Championship game NOT being in Dallas every year?

Texas is going to have a very hard time playing second fiddle to USC and the rest of the west dominating their conference discussions. 

How does a conference championship game trading between San Diego and Los Angeles treat the Longhorns? 

How do conference meetings seem 'pleasant' when everything you ever had and wanted simply go down the drain in the Pac 10 sound?

How does opening up your borders for 'plucking' of recruits by USC, Oregon, and everybody else in the Pac 16 sound?

With USC on an assumed two-year probation ban of not playing in a bowl game, and Texas truly opening up their borders for recruiting mayhem, this doesn't sound like a good move for any team coming out of the Big 12. 

Much less the TV contract.  When does the BEVOUSC Network begin?  I'm sure it won't be anytime soon, and when your brethren that you supposedly 'dragged' along to the Pac 10 start voting against you, what will you think about that?

Good to know that the AD at Texas can make such comments as: "We did not start this,” “If we need to finish it, we’ll finish it."

Well then, Mr. DeLoss Dodds, I'll be impressed if YOU end it. 

Thus, in the recruiting world, the Big 10 actually ends up on top.  Nobody plucks their treasured resources of talent, and neither does anybody from the SEC.

Texas?  USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Oklahoma and the rest are calling...

You need an answer Mr. Dodds?  This isn't 1890, and you are now...?

In the end, the Big 10 and SEC are the true winners, whether you want to believe it or not.

The Pac-16?  As always, anybody east of the Rockies doesn't care, and that makes up 2/3 of the entire population of the country.

As for recruiting?

SEC is always going to win.

The Big 10 gets a national recruiting school to their books that has proven they can recruit from coast to coast.

And the Pac 16 will fight over Texas and California recruits that will end up being a debacle anyway. 

Whose ego in the Pac 16 will get stroked most?  USC/UCLA/Texas/Oklahoma?

The SEC had it right.  Bring in the best teams you can and don't bitch when you aren't the best. 

Isn't that what the Big 12 was supposed to be?