Why the Pac-12 is thinking about an ACC merger, not a Big 12 plan

The ACC-Pac-12 merger might not happen, but the odds of that merger are clearly better than a Big 12-Pac-12 merger.

Trojans Wire talked to Buffaloes Wire and said this about the idea of Pac-12 and Big 12 schools coming together in a major collaboration:

The Pac-12 could merge with the Big 12, but after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the idea of seeing liberal Pac-12 institutions in the same bed with conservative schools from the South Central Plains just doesn’t strike me as a likely outcome. If the Pac-12 had wanted to add Baylor or TCU or Houston, it would have done so last year after Texas and Oklahoma went to the SEC. There’s a reason that didn’t happen. The institutional and cultural fits do not exist, and in a reworked conference, no Pac-12 or Big 12 team will have the juice needed to really move the needle.

Some of the things we told Buffaloes Wire have not held up over the past several days. You’ll see that if you read the full Buffs Wire post. However, this specific point has held up. We’ll see if it continues to hold.