Today a new and short era begins in the Big XII. BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF are now members. OU and Texas remain members for one more year. After over a decade of being a 10-team conference, the Big XII will be a 14-team conference for one year. I enter this brief window with very mixed feelings.
I am happy to have new blood on the conference schedule. The new teams have been solid either on the football field or the basketball court at some point in the recent past. But counterbalancing that is the imminent departure of Oklahoma from the conference one year from now.