For years now, the Big 12 has been talking expansion. Ever since TCU and Baylor were left out of the inaugural College Football Playoff, ostensibly due to the Big 12’s lack of a championship game, powers that be in Big 12 headquarters in Dallas have considered expansion the best way forward. The continued talk of expansion comes even as the NCAA changed their longstanding rule preventing conferences with fewer than 12 teams from having a championship football game. After the Big 12 Championship Game was launched in June, some institutions still wanted the Big 12 to expand to 12 or 14 schools.
Big 12 Expansion: What to Watch for
