• Vote: Is Utah the new wild card in conference realignment?
• Rank 'Em: Does the Big 12 have better teams than the Pac-10?
• Chat: Pat Forde sizes up the new conference landscape, 2 ET.
• More from ESPN.com: Big 12 blogger David Ubben on how the league was saved.

The Big East has teams in Milwaukee and Louisville. The Big Ten not only has a name that's out of date but a logo (with the embedded "11" in it) that's doubly wrong after adding Nebraska to the mix. The Pac-10 and Big 12? Not for math majors. At this rate, Conference USA needs to add the University of Western Ontario just to keep up with the big boys. But now that Texas has apparently saved the 10-team Big 12 by graciously accepting the opportunity to make more money than anyone else, what should we do about the name?

SportsNation blogger MightierToaster thinks the answer isn't coming up with a new name to match the math (and as a Big Ten fan, he has some experience with this). Instead, he thinks the answer is finding new non-Texas schools to match the old name.

• "Tulsa - Have a history of success and in Oklahoma, natural rivals.
  Memphis - Terrible football, has ability, but brings great BBall.
  Add the Florida market with either FAU or UCF.
  MTSU - Great up and coming program under Stockstill, adds Tennessee market."
  -- Read MightierToaster's full post.

Craig (Oklahoma)

I have an idea for the Big 12: add TCU and Tulsa to the conf. and put TCU in the south and Tulsa in the north, plus move OSU to the north. Just an idea, what do you think?

Bruce Feldman

I don't think its crazy. TCU is a big time program with great history. IT's not like you said shove two Sun Belts teams in there. Full transcript

• Rankings: What's your predicted order of finish in the Big 12 this season?

ESPN.com's college football writers and bloggers will be going conference by conference in the coming weeks to preview the season ahead, and we're looking for your rankings along the way. Things get started with the Big 12, where blogger Tim Griffin has some Cowboys and Cornhuskers as the most likely spoilers in the Oklahoma-Texas race.

1. Texas
2. Oklahoma
3. Oklahoma State
4. Nebraska
5. Kansas
6. Texas Tech
Check out Griffin's complete Big 12 rankings.

• Chat: Griffin takes your Big 12 questions at 2 p.m. ET.

• Rankings: How will the Big 12 look from top to bottom this season?

When it comes to Big 12 opening acts, SportsNation wouldn't mind being in Austin to watch Texas seek revenge against Texas Tech. Voters also like Texas A&M more than Baylor or Colorado when it comes to a revival among the conference's downtrodden members.

But come on, this is the Big 12, and that means only one thing to many: Oct. 17 in Dallas.

So with two months to kill before Oklahoma and Texas meet on the field, we decided to waste some time and stoke the fires from Norman to Austin with a pair of endlessly arguable questions for the two teams. Not surprisingly, we found a Nation divided.

• SN's take: 57 percent say Bob Stoops' spread tougher than Barry Switzer's wishbone.
• SN's take: 52 percent say Vince Young a better Texas quarterback than Colt McCoy.

Meanwhile, as Big 12 blogger Tim Griffin recounted recently, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops thinks the Red River Rivalry between his Sooners and Texas still has room to grow. Earlier this summer, SportsNation rated it as the best rivalry in college football, but considering that there are still several schools SportsNation hates way more than Oklahoma and Texas, Stoops may have a point. One can only aspire to be despised as much as Ohio State (whose fans now don't know whether to feel offended or complimented).

• SN's take: 60 percent say Nebraska won't regain elite status before 2020.
• SN's take: 52 percent think Bill Snyder is the best coach in Kansas.
• SN's take: 53 percent contend Georgia at OSU isn't best Big 12 nonconference game.
• Vote: What's your take on some of these Big 12 preseason questions?
• Groups: HOOK EM !! | BIG 12 TWELVE COUNTRY | The Red River Rivalry

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I think the OU Texas game is going to be the best this year! One down but good O-line and one down D-line but good . The best backfield vs one of the best secondaries. Gonna be fun!

” -- jtstavern

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I love this [OU-Texas] rivalry, of all my teams this is my favorite. It was rough those years OU owned us, but I can appreciate how Texas hung in there with Mack and now the rivalry is widely regarded as one of the biggest again. I was sooo tired of the Michigan/OSU hype

” -- bigtravatx