STILLWATER, Okla. – One is the loneliest, but best, number everywhere in college football but Big 12 territory.
For a full offseason and well into this one, all that Big 12 coaches, administrators, players and fans had to hear from the rest of the country was how the league slogan of "One True Champion" was nothing more than a punchline. There was, though, no singular champion or even a team in the first-ever College Football Playoff.
Like many of its member states, the Big 12 was simply a fly-over part of the college football season that took place before the real action occurred elsewhere.