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Sports Take: Ranking Baylor football’s Big 12 rivalries, part 1

By Jonah Kramer | Guest Contributor

From the moment they step foot on campus for Line Camp, Baylor students quickly learn which schools they are supposed to despise. Countless shots at Texas Christian University, jokes about Texas Tech University’s academic rigor – or lack thereof – and the horns down hand signal to spite the University of Texas are fun jests that subconsciously build the sense of rivalry within first-year Bears.

Conference realignment threatens the fabric of rivalries as we know it, as regular athletic matches between Baylor and SEC-bound schools Texas and the University of Oklahoma are soon to be a thing of the past.