A report has surfaced today from Chip Brown of Horns Digest suggesting the Big 12 has no intention of expanding in 2016.
As Brown puts it, “Expansion is not happening and neither is a Big 12 network – not this year, multiple sources across the Big 12 as well as TV industry sources told HornsDigest.com.”
While talks had picked up recently, leading many Colorado State Rams fans to get excited, with several Big 12 school presidents advocating publicly for expansion, the atmosphere seems to have changed in meetings this week in Dallas. Oklahoma president David Boren has been one of the most vocal advocates for conference expansion in the past and even he’s recently said, “I think we kind of got out ahead of ourselves,” Boren told reporters recently.