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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/alwaysveryconflicted on 2023-08-06 17:39:30.

Texas Tech has been in three conferences throughout their history:

Border Conference, Southwest Conference, and the Big 12.

All of these conferences have died, or in the case of the Big 12, almost died. While Texas is the lovable go to in blaming for deaths of conferences, Texas Tech has quietly moved through the shadows as it has the blood of two conferences on its hands.

Border Conference: Texas Tech’s departure from the Border Conference in 1956 majorly destabilizes the conference, leaving Arizona and Arizona State to keep the conference alive. It barely goes on until its collapse in 1962.

Southwest Conference: Texas Tech’s arrival to the SWC marked the beginning of the end for the conference, as the west Texas pipeline that TCU, Baylor, and SMU relied on for recruiting purposes was swallowed up by Texas Tech. Texas Tech will end up doing next to nothing notable in the SWC despite having control of this recruiting pipeline. The conference would continue to get weaker throughout the decades with its conference members resorting to huge amounts of cheating to stay relevant until the NCAA brought the hammer down on the vast majority of the conference in the 1980s. In 1994, Texas Tech would accept an invitation to the Big 12 Conference, joining Baylor, Texas, and Texas A&M, marking the end of the SWC.

Original Big 12: Texas Tech did not try killing the Big 12 not once, but twice. The first attempt to kill the Big 12 came in 2010, when Texas Tech, along with Texas, OU, and Oklahoma State were in advanced negotiations with the PAC-10 in joining as a bloc. Ultimately, Texas Tech’s inclusion was one of the deal breakers along with the Longhorn Network and thus negotiations collapsed, leaving the Big 12 to survive on adding TCU and West Virginia.

Post Nebraska, CU, A&M, and Mizzou Big 12: Texas and Oklahoma decided to go the SEC in 2021. With the Big 12 in shambles once again, Texas Tech senses the opportunity to finally kill the conference once and for all. Rumors say that Texas Tech went to the PAC, along with Oklahoma State, in order to attempt to join the PAC-12 Conference. However, the PAC, specifically USC according to the rumors, stops Texas Tech in its tracks, denying expansion.

In conclusion, CFB has been blaming the wrong school all this time, as having Texas Tech in your conference is truly the mark of death.