In July of 2021, news broke of ESPN’s plan for Texas and Oklahoma to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC. While any logical person knew that Bob Bowlsby and Jamie Pollard were built to lead the conference through those difficult times, talking heads still immediately began giving their predictions of when the Big 12 would be consumed by the AAC. Yes, the same AAC that had to raid Conference USA to remain a league.
No matter what, when you lose teams it hurts. Or does it? There’s no denying that Oklahoma has historically been the best program in Big 12 history.