Conference realignment rumors continue to make headlines as the college football season gets underway, particularly out West.

The Pac-12 is in a tricky place, as it will lose USC and UCLA to the Big Ten in 2024. As things stand now, the league could either have more teams poached or expand itself.

Insider John Canzano ranked some of the Pac-12’s expansion options, listing San Diego State as the most likely candidate:

It’s the most obvious choice and one that I think the Pac-12 would be wise to explore with alacrity. San Diego State’s DMA brings 1.1 million television households and adding the Aztecs would get the Pac-12 back into Southern California. The Big 12 could potentially meddle here, and provide some leverage for SDSU. But I think San Diego State makes far more sense for the Pac-12 geographically and suspect the university would be happy to take a lower distribution of media-rights funds in the early years.

Odds: 2 to 1.

Will we indeed see the Pac-12 expand? The league may be eager to do so to convince its remaining schools — Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, Utah, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Cal and Stanford — to stick around for the foreseeable future. Anything can happen in this era of college sports, though!