Big 12 Realignment: Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including the Mistakes

Texas has officially jumped off of the fun train bound for the West coast.

Oklahoma, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma State are expected to stay with them.

The Big (10, 11, 12, or maybe they'll expand now) is going to stay together, as it were, minus Colorado and Nebraska.

I would first like to take a moment to thank the Big 12 and commissioner Dan Beebe (who looks like a crazy science teacher) for killing the entire country with anticipation and then chickening out at the last minute.

Apparently during this whole ordeal, Beebe had not considered the fact that his conference might actually have it's own market value until this morning, when he actually decided to crunch some numbers together.

Great stuff, Einstein. Stick with the chromium sulfate and the lab coat next time so you won't kill everyone's excitement.

This move only benefits one school, being Texas, and even then it is arguable as to whether or not it is actually good for them.

They will make some more money off of a television contract (allegedly) and end up playing teams that have had historical rivalries with them.

The quality of their competition dropped some, as well.

But in a move to the Pac-10, Texas would have brought its biggest rivals (minus maybe Texas A&M, but if A&M didn't care enough about it, why would Texas?) and likely two automatic BCS bids for the conference.

Texas would have had a better shot at constantly being in BCS games by the math and the competition would have been down.

This decision by William Powers, current king of the fun police, just ruined what would have ended up being college football's great transformation.

Notre Dame would have finally been forced in the Big Ten as every conference spiked up to 16, essentially creating an elite, 64-team league.

It would have created a de facto playoff system with the conference championships serving as quarterfinal games.

Instead, Texas will enjoy magnificently competitive and engaging football games against teams like Baylor, Kansas State, and Iowa State.

Oh Boy!

The possibility of seeing a USC-Texas or USC-Oklahoma rivalry bud was far more rewarding than preserving the conference affiliation of those teams.

Did commissioner Larry Scott not consider offering Texas more money to make this deal go through?

After all the speculation and the weeks of build-up to tomorrow's announcement, Texas chickened out.

Texas dropped the ball.

And now, fans who were hoping for a sincerely awesome super-conference era are going to have to wait for another century, when we will all be dead.

Because, right before the vote was cast to make it official, some bumbling, mad scientist, named Dan Beebe, discovered a formula to preserve a crumbling conference.

And he did it after the greatest losses that were going to be had in terms of conference history by the break up that had already occurred from Nebraska and Colorado jumping ship.

Say hello to more of the college football status quo that everyone hates.

We all have Texas to thank for it.