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Report: Documents show Houston, Memphis and others push to join in potential Big 12 expansion

Related Topics: Big 12 Conference, E. Gordon Gee

Should the Big 12 choose to expand, it appears Houston, Memphis, Central Florida and Colorado State have already made their push to join, according to ESPN.

It reports that documents tie West Virginia president Gordon Gee — one of three Big 12 presidents on the composition committee — to interacting with officials from each school. Here are the highlights of the story, which you can read here.

  • Gee traveled to Houston and met with school officials on a two-day visit in November, toured the facilities and was given a spreadsheet on Houston's TV ratings in the local television market.