Do you know what Independence Day for the Big 12 is? It’s Feb. 25, 1994, the day that the Big 8 conference merged with four schools from the Southwest Conference to form the Big 12, which back then was a mathematically correct title.
But nobody throws parades and grills hamburgers and lights fireworks for Big 12 Independence Day. Today, our country takes a day off work to celebrate the founding of our nation 243 years ago. We here at Frogs O’ War are celebrating the best way we know: by assigning a U.S. Founding Father to each Big 12 football team.