It wasn’t too long ago when every single week of the offseason was filled with conference realignment rumors galore. From 2010 to 2013, you could find any flavor of rumor from things that made sense like Colorado leaving the Big 12 for the Pac-12, to the odder ones, like Texas wanting to join the ACC.
That last one was largely the pinnacle of insane realignment theories to this point. It made little geographic sense, but the idea that Texas could want to be surrounded by higher-caliber academic institutions had some merit (as did the Longhorns wanting to join up with Notre Dame).