College Football Realigment, Here We...er, Wait a sec

So, in my last post about College Football realignment, changes looked to be coming fast and furious. A couple of weeks later, and it looks to have been shot down just as fast. Just like some movie I recently watched. Texas A&M (and Texas and the Longhorn Network for that matter), Syracuse and Pittsburgh are My Name Is Earl's tubby brother and sets the realignment train on its way.  It looks all set to decimate the Pennsylvania countryside until the Pac-12 does their Denzel and the SEC does their Chris Pine impression and puts the brakes on realignment.  What looked to be a sure-fire move to 16-team superconferences ended when the Pac-12 decides not to add Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech.  Then the SEC refuses to add West Virginia and decides to keep Missouri waiting.

So we've gone from Unstoppable, to very stoppable.  Now, instead of being reduced to scraps, the Big 12 is still in business.  They've also decided to add another team in TCU.  I failed to mention in my last post how TCU was supposed to be moving to the Big East.  But I had already assumed that with the Big East slowly dying, TCU would bolt before it even started playing.  Turns out I was right.  (What would be really funny is if TCU bolted a dying Big East only to have to bolt a dying Big 12)   So what are we looking at now:

ACC	Big 10	Big 12	Big East	Pac 12	SEC
Boston College Clemson Duke Florida State Georgia Tech Maryland Miami (FL) North Carolina NC State Pittsburgh Syracuse Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest	Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Mich. State Minnesota Nebraska Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Purdue Wisconsin	Baylor Iowa State Kansas K. State Missouri Oklahoma OK State TCU Texas Texas Tech	Cincinnati Connecticut Louisville Rutgers S Florida West Virginia	Arizona Arizona State California Colorado Oregon Oregon State Stanford UCLA USC Utah Washington Wash. State	Alabama Arkansas Auburn Florida Georgia Kentucky LSU Miss. State Ole Miss South Carolina Tennessee Texas A&M Vanderbilt

So, we still have a crippled Big East, a somewhat stable Big 12 and a 13-team SEC.  The SEC can't stay at 13 teams in its current 2 division setup, the scheduling is a nightmare.  So, will Missouri go to the SEC as has been predicted?  It would make things easy for the SEC but then the Big 12 would need to get another team to get back to 10 teams, or would they try to stay at 9?  Or will the Pac-12 try to go to 16 by stealing Big-12 teams?  Whatever happens, it looks like it won't be happening as fast as it appeared just a few weeks ago.