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Now imagine tuning into Big 12 football ahead of time! On purpose! Because, to quote the conference’s own half-hearted branding, every game matters! (This also improves the Big 12’s situation in a sport known as basketball, I’m told.)įor most of the last decade, you’ve changed the channel to Big 12 football for two reasons: someone is scoring too many points, and/or Oklahoma is suddenly struggling against a lesser team. What the Big 12 does gain by adding four of the best available football programs is this: one of the most competitive power-conference races every year. 3 in the last 20 final AP polls, those odds weren’t excellent to begin with. The conference adding a bunch of TCU-like scrappers doesn’t supercharge its odds of winning a playoff, but since even the Sooners have finished no better than No. I also hold no investments in the Big 12’s postseason attendance. Oh no, without the Sooner-Longhorn bailout fund, how will Kansas afford to hire another new head coach every three years forever? Not my problem. Well, I’m a college sports fan, not a person with stock in the Big 12, so I don’t care about that. And suddenly, for the Big 12’s remaining members, those wells are drying up. The Longhorns have complained for a half-century about sharing revenue with small schools like Baylor. Texas is annually college sports’ biggest brand, with OU also near the top. The conference’s financial stakeholders, however, can’t rejoice about the bully Sooners and their rich friend leaving town. (Texas pulled an even better trick, hogging spotlight despite only a few wins.) Makes sense! The Sooners hogged the spotlight and almost all the wins. But instead of replacing, let’s think about recalibrating.īig 12 fans are, by and large, happy to see Oklahoma leaving, now that it seems the conference will limp through the aftermath. There’s no replacing Oklahoma and Texas, unless you convince Ohio State and Michigan to move to San Antonio or something. Will the Big 12 become less watchable? I don’t think so. Even SEC lightweights like Kentucky tend to outrecruit Big 12 contenders like Oklahoma State.

1 class almost every year, but with a half-dozen SEC rivals pretty close behind. 32.Ĭompare that to the SEC, where Alabama has the country’s No. The next Big 12 team is TCU, way down at No.

Over the last 10 years, they’ve been two of the country’s top 10 recruiters, according to the 247Sports Composite. In that regard, the Sooners and Horns will fit the SEC. Each year, the Big 12 race is everything people think the SEC race is - schools like Auburn, Florida, Georgia and LSU can approach Alabama’s talent level, if not its consistent excellence. The Sooners have won six in a row and are favored to make it seven.

Big 12 conference talk plus#

Since 2000, Oklahoma has won 13 Big 12 football titles, plus a share of 2012’s. In just about every way, Oklahoma’s Big 12 has been the most lopsided power conference, though Ohio State’s Big Ten is joining the mix. Let’s talk about how the Big 12’s impending additions of BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF might change things for you, the sports fan. But let’s try something else for a few minutes. We could talk all day, all year, and all century about how the Big 12’s expansion changes the conference’s College Football Playoff chances, revenue distribution, and place within the national pecking order.