At Big 12 Media Days last week, Bob Bowlsby took to the podium to open the festivities, speaking on several topics that impact the conference he presides over as well as some that affect the future of college football on the national scale. He continued to hype up the Big 12’s play everyone mantra, mentioning the slogan that “The Big 12 is won by who you play, not who you don’t.” He spoke about how the round-robin schedule presents a unique challenge for the four new coaches in the league, whose programs were picked to occupy the four bottom slots in the preseason media poll, saying “they all have lots of work to do and they all have the vision right in front of their consciousness that there aren’t a lot of days off in the Big 12.
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