The four newcomers in the Big 12 are off to a bad start. BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF are a combined 2-10 in league games. It's a far cry from their recent histories. Cincinnati went to the College Football Playoff in 2021. BYU won 10 games twice in the past three years. Houston is two years removed from a 12-win season.
Cincinnati quarterback Emory Jones throws a pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Iowa State, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Cincinnati. BYU head coach Kalani Sitake, left, yells at an official, right, during the second half of an NCAA college football game against TCU, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Fort Worth, Texas.
The expectation of playing in the Big 12 is “pretty much what I thought it would be,” said UCF coach Gus Malzahn, a former head coach at Auburn . Dana Holgorsen is shepherding his second school into the Big 12. He was West Virginia’s coach for its first seven seasons in the league before taking over at Houston in 2019. The Cougars have the Big 12’s worst defense and Holgorsen has talked repeatedly about his team wearing down late.. The Cougars then earned the first win by one of the expansion schools over a league veteran, beating West Virginia“I talked about blocking and tackling and playing all four quarters,” Holgorsen said.
BYU started the season with three nonconference wins before falling flat. The Cougars’ running game ranks 129th among Bowl Subdivision teams.
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