Enhance

@VectorVictor My understanding was the Pac-10 move by the South teams was largely submarined by Texas, not A&M.

@knapplcThat's correct. What I'm saying is that there's another move in here that is important to discuss. 

Timeline (though it's nebulous--a lot of this was happening at the same time/overlaps other events) 

• Texass gets Longwhorn Network, scuttles possibility of Big XII network with ESPN or Fox because of this. 
• Group of five (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, A&M, Missouri) start talking with B1G about moving to their conference
• A&M scuttles group of five B1G deal because they're myopic, greedy f***s. B1G has already done homework on all schools involved. 
• Texas starts dalliance with Pac-12 after catching wind of possible B1G move falling through, wants to bring at least four Big XII South schools over (and Colorado IIRC).
• Pac-12 have a handshake agreement with Vermin, but there are numerous issues: a "Tech Problem" (as it was described by Ohio State in how Texass would sell the dregs of the Big XII to the then Pac-10), Texass didn't want to give up Longwhorn Network, and other schools balk at handing over third tier television rights (something that still haunts the Pac-12 Network--everyone has their own third tier channel/rights, which is a clusterf***). 
• Missouri starts cozying up with the B1G, Colorado starts flirting with the Pac-10 while Texas does their dance with the Pac-10. 
• Nebraska reaches out to B1G, B1G realizes this is a better deal, chooses Nebraska. 
• A&M strikes out on their own, solicits SEC. Finds willing moving buddy Missouri on their doorstep freshly dumped by the B1G. 
• Colorado goes to the Pac-12. 
• Oklahoma's AD publicly announces they're hitching their schooner to Bevo (a move that AD later admits was folly)
• Texass stays, is large fish in a smaller, algae-infested pond. 

What I find interesting is that had Nebraska NOT reached out to the Big Ten, maybe they take Missouri to get to 12 and kinda consider themselves done expanding.  Does A&M find a moving partner in Nebraska?