If there are targets or opportunity, we would think about that. “Our board will want to keep its eye on what’s going on. “I wouldn’t suggest that we’re done,” Bowlsby said. Bowlsby said Friday, though, that the Big 12 could potentially invite more members. Since then, the Pac-12 has denied any intentions of expanding its conference, and no formal expansion plans have come from the Big Ten or A.C.C., either. Just last month, the Pac-12, Big Ten and Atlantic Coast conferences formed an alliance in response to the bolstering of the SEC as a way to navigate the current era of realignment. “We’ve added both numerically, and we’ve added with high quality,” he said, adding: “I think we’re moving in the direction of the five autonomy conferences having more to say about how the rules are constructed and managed than less.” If an expansion did, in fact, happen, it would likely mean the Big. Many viewed the new conference as the Big Eight rescuing four. The Big 12 conference is made up of 10 teams and there are many reasons to add two teams to align with the name of the conference.
TEAMS JOINING THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE TV
The league managed to survive with an influx of TV money from Fox and when Texas, which had threatened a departure to what was then the Pacific 10, agreed to stay put (until recently).īowlsby said he was confident that with the additions the Big 12 could retain its power as one of the five richest conferences in college sports. Formed in 1994 from a combination of the Big Eight and four Southwest Conference teams, the Big 12 played its first season in 1996.
That left the Big 12 with only 10 schools. The conference appeared to be on the verge of collapse in the early 2010s when four schools (Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado and Texas A&M) left the conference during another era of N.C.A.A. For the Big 12, the maneuver represents yet another bounce-back in recent history.
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