The Big 12 is about to play its first season without Oklahoma and Texas. The new 16-team conference lacks traditional super powers. And the expanded College Football Playoff’s new revenue structure has created a perception the Big 12 is no longer a peer of the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference on the field.
FILE - Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark participates in announcement on the field during the first half of the Big 12 Conference championship NCAA college football game between Oklahoma State and Texas in Arlington, Texas, Dec. 2, 2023. Before the new Big 12 — sans Oklahoma and Texas — even kicks off, the expanded College Football Playoff’s new revenue structure has created a perception that the conference is not quite the equal of the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference .
The Big 12 becomes a 16-team conference this upcoming season with the additions of former Pac-12 schools Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah. “When you look at the first 10 years of the CFP, we didn’t perform probably as well as we would have liked. That’s OK. History might not repeat itself.”“I guess you could say in some respects I was satisfied. It was fine, but certainly not happy about it,” he said.
Talk of the Big Ten and SEC getting more automatic bids than the other leagues and guaranteed first-round byes went by the wayside for now, but the message has been sent: The Big 12 and ACC are no longer true peers.“I think that you always want your program to be judged by the merits, not by the geography,” Dykes said.
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