Let’s get a few facts out of the way first.
- Texas is one of college football’s most storied programs, a bona fide powerhouse that has produced some of the game’s greatest players (see: Williams, Ricky, and Young, Vince).
- If Texas were to take its stockpile of money and legion of fans and leave the Big 12, the conference would collapse on itself immediately.
Those are facts. Here’s another one — just because Texas has had a run of bad seasons since 2009 does not mean Big 12 results since then are less meaningful.