It's going to be a whole lot easier for Illinois to win 7 or 8 games in the new Big 10 than it would be for them in the new Big 12. The Big 10 still has a lot of very shitty football schools. It's harder for them to make the CFP in the Big 10, but that's going to be all but impossible for Illinois to do in either scenario.
If they nuke the filibuster, they could expand the court. That way the court will always rule for the party in power. It's a whole lot worse than what we used to have, but also a whole lot better than the current court ruling in favor of the party that was just voted out every time.
It will start to hurt republicans when voters figure out that it sucks living in a world where women are forced to have babies, but that's going to take some time.
The court is already Catholic enough to do that today, but I don't see any state being able to ban contraceptives and test that. Propagandize the evangelicals on the issue like they were on abortion for a decade or so, and I could see bans starting to get passed around 2040, though.
It's not a minority in the GOP anywhere. It's mostly old people, though. There's light at the end of the tunnel if people currently in their 40s can figure out a way to not become brain damerged like their parents did over the next decade.
Kansas State alum here, and I can say that I don't hate Texas at all. More indifferent than anything, though I loved playing them in the long long ago when both programs were actually good. I do hate Nebraska. I love Scott Frost and everything about him, love that their "loser" quarterback is going to step foot on our campus and immediately compete for a conference title now that he is actually surrounded by talent, and love that Nebraska will probably miss a bowl game for the 6th consecutive year. I will tune in for that. Can't say that I will care to tune into Texas games in the SEC unless they are actually relevant or playing someone relevant in a late season game. Wish them only the best.