Hear me out,
I've been reading a lot of trash talk on CSU on this site and how they're not deserving of a slot in a P5 conference. If the rolls were reversed, would we deserve a spot in a P5 conference? It's not like we ran the gamut for a number of years and were asked into a P5 conference (Let's not forget, we didn't even know how to spell W-I-N until Snyder came along.) Comparatively, our schools are very similar, except we have the fortune of "sneaking" into a P5 conference unknowingly all the way back in 1913 when we joined the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) --> Big Eight --> Big XII. I think with the success and growth of the CSU campus and football program nowadays, I'd be proud to welcome them into the BigXII. Hell, if the Big XII had broken up a couple of years ago, we would've been very welcome in the Mountain West. Seriously, before TCU left that conference, the MWC was in serious talks for an automatic BCS bowl berth.
Road trips out to Colorado are always fun and I haven't been back there to watch football since CU left the conference (I'm still miffed at that). If I can't get CU, I'll go and take their more Aggie relative, CSU, any day.