The Pitt and Cuse news confirms what I thought that the days of the Bigeast as we know it are numbered.
The biggest chips left on the table appear to be Rutgers, WVA, USF, and UConn in the Bigeast, and obviously OU (and OKSU if it's really a pair deal) and UT in the the Big12. This should come as no surprise, but how the Big12ers go will determine how things go.
I'm surprised that there's so much talk of UT to the ACC. While the FSU, Miami, and VTech matchups would be fun, I feel any of the other 3 major conferences would be better fits.
I know the Big10 wants to expand east (ideally to capture the lucrative northeast and/or midatlantic market), but I wouldn't mind seeing a West/South expansion as well (the big10 would still have to add 4 to be a 16-team conference) by adding Mizzou and ideally some or all of the big boys. In other words, best case scenario in a hypothetical for the B10 in which the academic component doesn't matter as much (and if you're talking about adding OU, it shouldn't), would be to add OU, OKSU, UT, and ND. Since it's entirely possible and perhaps even likely that none of those 4 join, it's a real possibility that Rutgers, WVA, Mizzou, and some other team make up the final 4 programs to join the B10. It obviously makes a lot of geographic sense for WVA to join the ACC, but the B10 has a lot to offer schools, so that should hold a lot of sway.
As a side note, the 4 x 16 conference alignment has its problems, but if it gets the ncaa closer to a playoff, which I think it does, I'm all for it.