College football personality Josh Pate, like many, took the time to create what he believed would be the perfect conference alignment for college football, and although there are flaws, Pate actually might have solved the Oklahoma Sooners' biggest problem created from conference realignment: the death of traditional rivals.
Between OU's move from the Big 12 to the SEC in 2024 and Nebraska heading to the Big Ten nearly 15 years ago, the Sooners lost their annual rivalries with the Cornhuskers and in-state Oklahoma State on the gridiron. Pate, though, in his proposed conference realignment, sent the Sooners back to the good ole' days in a revised Big 8 with 10 teams, including OU, OSU, Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, BYU, Missouri, Colorado and Utah.