If Texas and OU can go west and take Tech and OSU along with them there are ways to structure a 16 team conference. OU could group those four into an East Pod, group CU, Utah, and the Arizonas into a mountain pod, the California schools into a California pod and the Washingtons and Oregons into a Pacific NW pod.
In this scenario Texas would play its three pod opponents and two rotating opponents (presumably home and away) from the other three pods for nine conference games. This means six games in CST, one MST, and two PST. In addition to whatever OOC games they schedule and if they make a Pac-16 championship or playoff and whenever those games would be held.
The two PST games a year would be annoying, especially if they are against bad teams, but it's not insurmountable. After all the quality of play in the Big 12 at the moments means plenty of wonky start times anyways so I wouldn't call it a deal breaker.
Now if it's just Texas and OU that go west...that's a different (and hilarious) story.
In this scenario Texas would play its three pod opponents and two rotating opponents (presumably home and away) from the other three pods for nine conference games. This means six games in CST, one MST, and two PST. In addition to whatever OOC games they schedule and if they make a Pac-16 championship or playoff and whenever those games would be held.
The two PST games a year would be annoying, especially if they are against bad teams, but it's not insurmountable. After all the quality of play in the Big 12 at the moments means plenty of wonky start times anyways so I wouldn't call it a deal breaker.
Now if it's just Texas and OU that go west...that's a different (and hilarious) story.