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Without that kind of Pod the travel for Texas in the PAC is just as bad.
The major areas of Texas are in the Central time zone . Of the PAC teams only Utah Colo, are Mountain time. AZ is on PST during most of football season. SEC is Texas's best option.
The Pac makes the most sense for Texas with either a pod of Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma St., or a division with the above pod plus Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona St. The pod and division are less travel than what it would be in the ACC. Plus, a Pac that included Texas and Oklahoma would be considered either the top or second best football conference with the SEC. As for a conference channel, it blows away the other conferences with potential. (California, Texas, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma) Politically, it would be much easier to move to the Pac in a pod than to move to another conference on their own.
Obviously, Texas could fit in the SEC, but does the SEC want them and could they make the move politically? I made the assumption that the SEC didn't want Texas and Texas wasn't a good fit for the SEC.