ACC plans on meeting to discuss adding Cal and Stanford, though it may not be financially feasible for either school or the existing ACC schools. That seems much weirder than the Big Ten stretching out that far as only Pittsburgh and Louisville are in states that aren't on the Atlantic Ocean (their states also border existing member states, so a full contiguous conference). I guess they do have Notre Dame, but Indiana is a long way from the west coast. Going all the way to the west coast for two schools that aren't going to move the needle financially seems like a stretch, but that is how desperate the ACC is and presumably Cal and Stanford are.
If the Big 12 isn't interested, maybe the 4 get some teams from other conferences and form a smaller 10 team conference with some of the better teams from the other conferences.
Maybe something like: OSU, WSU, Stan, Cal, SDSU, Fresno, Boise, UNLV, SMU, UTSA
That is a decent conference. Not great, but decent. And perhaps they add a couple of non-football schools and bring in Gonzaga and Saint Mary's (or something like that).
Should be interesting to see how it all shakes out.