On Monday the presidents of the Big 12 and commissioner Bob Bowlsby met in Dallas and it appeared that a decision was going to be made about the seemingly never-ending expansion saga. Well, a decision certainly was made, just not the one the Cincinnati Bearcats (or the UConn Huskies, BYU Cougars, Houston Cougras and others) wanted to hear.
Source: Status quo in the Big 12. No members added. League still discussing adding more TV revenue from ESPN and Fox.
— Pete Thamel (@SIPeteThamel) October 17, 2016
Cincinnati was considered a front-runner for one of the rumored openings in the conference and has been along for the whole roller coaster ride of this last summer when Big 12 expansion was a sure thing, then seemed over only to be reinvigorated once again.