Colorado State to the Big 12? This Texas writer thinks so

Terry Jackson with the Bronze Boot. Credit: Troy Babbitt, USA TODAY SportsColorado State Rams football’s “Big 3” — winning, a new stadium and moving up to a Power 5 conference — may be converging.

For years, CSU fans have dreamt about moving into a Power 5 conference, where they could conceivably compete for a National Championship. Now, Hopkins Horn of Burnt Orange Nation thinks Colorado State should be the Big 12’s 12th team.

“So if the Big 12 decides that it has to return to twelve schools (whether for all sports or for football-only, which has also been speculated), which is the 12th school?” Hopkins begins. “(I’m going to take it as a given that Cincinnati would be the 11th school, for…