The Big 12 Conference was the first of the power conferences to have schools switch sides and allegiance in favor of another conference. Four football schools left the Big 12 over a two-year span in 2011 and ’12 and Oklahoma football rattled its sabers and was threatening to do the same.
Now, over a decade later, as teams enter preseason training camp in preparation for the 2023 season, the musical chairs game known as conference realignment is exploding all over again and has Pac-12 teams scrambling like roaches.
Friday was a seismic news day in the Pac-12 and in college sports.