![]() That is, of course, until the rest of the teams leave. So the Big Ten soon will have 18 schools, the Big 12 will have 16 schools, and the poor Pac-12 is left now with four schools. We found out a year ago that USC and UCLA were defecting from the Pac-12.Īnd last week, Oregon and Washington followed suit while Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State are all headed to the Big 12. ![]() Rutgers and Maryland came aboard a few years later, but conference leaders surely knew that was just the beginning so why change the name then? They were right. But there was already a Big 12 Conference, so the name stayed. Nebraska's addition in 2011 bumped the number to 12. The Big "Ten," of course, has not had 10 teams since 1990 when Penn State joined as the 11th. The latest round of conference realignment last week, which seemed to take place in a span of time usually reserved for ordering a pizza, only compounded and expanded a problem that has been going on for decades now. And they might be worst of all at geography. With no more moves, the Big 12 will grow to 16 teams next season when the quartet from the dismantled Pac-12 officially become members.For a bunch of leaders who seem to only care about money, those who run some of the largest athletic schools and conferences in the United States seem to be terrible at math. It is at 14 this year with BYU in along with Cincinnati, Houston and UCF from the American Athletic Conference. TCU and West Virginia joined in 2012, and the Big 12 stayed at 10 teams through last season. The Buffaloes will now be part of an expansion that will make the Big 12 bigger than ever.įounding members Texas A&M and Missouri left for the SEC after the 2011 season, a year after the departures of Colorado and 1997 national champion Nebraska (to the Big Ten). ![]() Cincinnati, which two seasons ago was the first Group of Five team to make the four-team College Football Playoff, hasn’t played a team from its new league since losing to Oklahoma in 2010, and it hasn’t played one of the continuing members since Kansas in 1997.Ĭolorado was part of the original 12-team lineup before the first rounds of conference realignment that dropped the Big 12 to 10 teams. UCF’s last game against the Big 12 was a 52-42 win over Baylor in the Fiesta Bowl at the end of the 2013 season. There’s been a lot of anticipation and a lot of talk but I’m ready to just get out there and go do it.” “Obviously, being an independent was great but now you can play for a conference championship, you’re competing, you’re watching week-to-week who’s winning and who’s losing. You have so much more to play for,” BYU linebacker Ben Bywater said. Now they are part of the league after playing 12 seasons as an independent. 9 Baylor last September was the part of a non-conference home-and-home series, the Cougars’ first games against a Big 12 opponent since 2016. Their loss to the Red Raiders in 2021 came the weekend before getting their invitation to join.īYU’s double-overtime win at home over then-No. The Cougars are 4-13 against the league since not being among the four Texas teams from the Southwest Conference that merged with the Big Eight to form the Big 12 in 1996. Houston had back-to-back games early last season against the Big 12, losing at Texas Tech and at home to Kansas. “Since January, yeah, I’ve talked about it because that’s the way it’s going to be. But I tried not to make that big of a deal about it,” Houston coach Dana Holgorsen said. I think we pressed too much a little bit, just based on this is what it’s going to be like. “I was very careful with talking too much Big 12 prior to January.
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