Slam dunk. No-brainer. Sure thing. Pick your analogy to describe what will be the next major alteration to the college sports landscape.
And while all of those phrases would apply to the decision of Oklahoma and Texas to leave the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference and for the SEC to accept two of the biggest names in college football, everyone should be mindful of history.
This won't be the first time a 16-team conference has been tried. The Western Athletic Conference famously expanded by six teams in 1996. Three seasons later, the conference imploded.
The first problem was that this was a marriage of convenience for many schools.