Our (weeks) long college football nightmare is over, as Friday marked the beginning of a new era and a new Big 12, one that remarkably looks like will actually have 12 teams when the dust settles.
Early Friday morning, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF were issued formal invitations to join the Big 12 Conference, marking the first foray into the Power Five for each. The former makes the leap from independent to fully vested status, while the latter three jumped ship from the AAC — formerly the strongest G5 conference in the country — to the greener pastures, and deep pockets, of the P5.