Big Ten conference expansion candidate power rankings: Notre Dame is clear No. 1. Who else?

A little less than a decade after Rutgers won the national championship of conference expansion, the wheel is stunningly spinning again.

Oklahoma and Texas have formally told the Big 12 they are leaving, and their applications to the SEC will be rubber-stamped in short order. While it is not clear when the two powers will make the move, it will happen sooner rather than later. Which begs the next big question: Will the Big Ten respond? And if so, how?


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