A uniquely fun part of the Big 12 was that every year, every team played each other in football.
With the league inviting BYU, Houston, Cincinnati and UCF on Friday, it would understandably be difficult to keep that tradition going with a 12-team league. BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe said Friday the league would have two divisions.
It’s not a foreign concept to the league, as when there were actually 12 teams in the conference, the league had North and South divisions. However, the conference was a lot more geographically synchronized back then. Coolly strolling down middle America saw Iowa State, Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Colorado in the league’s North division with Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Baylor, Texas A&M, Texas and Texas Tech in the South.