The Pac-12 is dead! Long live the Big 12!

I am a Pac-12 fan. I have been for over 35 years, and I will be for one more season, but come this time next year the Pac-12 will not actually exist, or it will be some kind of Pac-12/Mountain West Frankenstein Conference. That makes me sad, but the world will probably continue to spin on its axis and the sun will come up on the college football world again in August of 2024.

The demise of the Pac-12 does bring me some happiness. Why? Because with the demise of one of the Power 5 conferences bring “stability” to my other favorite college conference, the Big 12. By stability I mean the Big 12 seems to have ensured their existence as Power 4 conference through at least the 2031 school year. I…