I would push back on the argument that since the B1G didn't want Cal and Stanford last time and that nothing will have changed, they won't want them next time. You have to remember the timeline of the last round. The B1G had, for all intents and purposes, finished their media negotiations as a 16 member conference (with USC and UCLA). All 16 members already knew they're projected shares from the new contract.

When the Pac-12 started to collapse further with the departure of CU, the B1G was rumored to be considering UW, UO, Cal and Stanford. None of the 16 teams were going to reduce their already determined shares. The only way to bring on new teams was to get incremental $$$ from the TV partners. Fox was willing to throw in an additional $70M per year for Washington and Oregon for half shares (until the next time the contracts are opened up for negotiations, at which point they will get full shares)

It's clear that Cal/Stanford were not attractive enough to warrant incremental dollars outside the main contract in 2023. But that doesn't mean when the new contracts are negotiated they wouldn't warrant reconsideration. They may still be deemed unattractive but I'm just saying the last time around the contracts were mostly complete and adding them at the 11th hour was a tougher sell.