Oklahoma Football: What a Move to the Pac-12 Would Mean for College Football

Imagine the Sooners traveling to Arizona to take on the Wildcats...in conference play. Or an actual playoff to determine who is college football's champion. With the rumors swirling around Oklahoma's possible move to the Pac-12 and the school looking into the "legal ramifications," it may not be long before those things are a reality.

The Big 12 is disintegrating piece by piece, with the parts being scattered all over the country, indiscriminately. It's not likely that the conference will be able to stay together if Oklahoma departs.

Such a move would leave Texas and...nobody of any major national significance.

The loss of one of the BCS conference could dramatically alter the face of college football. Texas has been rumored to possibly go independent or to another BCS conference if the Sooners leave. The face of college football is likely to undergo a drastic makeover in the months following such a move.

For the traditionalists and purists among college football fans, this might be a hard pill to swallow. For those who have been begging for a playoff since before the inception of the BCS system, your begging may finally pay off.

A transition by Oklahoma will initiate a mass transition to super conferences. 16 teams per conference is the most probable number, but it could be a difference number.

Like dominoes falling in a row, teams are already heading toward their destination in the brave new world of playoff football. It's been a long time overdue, but the movement we have seen recently, specifically in the Big 12, will result directly in a major change in how we decide the national champion.

It may be a plus-one system, or a 160team format, but whatever it is, will be playoffs...finally.