It was heavily rumored that Oklahoma would have came into the SEC with Texas A&M. However Oklahoma administrators insisted the SEC take Oklahoma State too. The SEC refused and took Missouri. David Boren & Bob Stoops were those Oklahoma administrators back then, both known to be big B1G fans. Boren & Stoops were both gone this last SEC expansion round. There was also a similar change of the big honchos at Texas not long before that SEC expansion move. You remember Texas & Oklahoma plus Okie Lite and Texas A&M almost all headed off to the PAC. The Longhorn Network that Texas would not relinquish being the barrier that stopped that move in the 11th hour. Those old Texas & Oklahoma administrators had orchestrated that Pac move. As far as Virginia & Virginia Tech being a packaged deal. I have heard North Carolina and Duke mentioned as such a package. Both North Carolina & Duke are AAU. That makes both B1G candidates if North Carolina can pull it off. However Virginia Tech is not AAU. Will the SEC come that far north? Clemson & FSU would be big SEC prime choices with little chance of the B1G getting them. Georgia Tech left the SEC in early 1960's, I have heard they can never return. No one can if they leave the SEC. So Miami is probably the only other southern SEC candidate. Miami is a commuter school unlike other SEC members. So the SEC might come north taking North Carolina State & Virginia Tech. The SEC has already refused Okie Lite and West Virginia. The SEC is also not taking Big 12 Texas church schools.