NORMAN — Conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby interrupted the very first question of Big 12 Media Days Monday. The Austin American Statesman's Kirk Bohls was starting to ask something about expanding the College Football Playoff, and Bowlsby couldn't resist.

“I thought you were going to ask the Big 12 expansion question,” Bowlsby said. “I still had it on my list.”

Uh, you can cross it off the list. Conference realignment talk was gone from the Dallas Cowboys' Ford Center, where the once-staggered Big 12 stood tall and proud Monday. No talk of instability. No talk of seeking new members or trying to hold on to flagship schools Oklahoma and Texas. No talk of the Big 12 being swallowed up by the rest of the Power 5 Conferences.

In fact, through six podium interviews with Bowlsby and coaches Lincoln Riley, Matt Campbell, Gary Patterson, Kliff Kingsbury and David Beaty, and through 90-minute breakout sessions with those coaches and several players from each of their schools, there were no questions about conference realignment.