It's a big year for the Big 12. After dropping to 10 football teams in 2011, the conference will balloon to 14 this year with the arrivals of BYU, Houston, UCF and Cincinnati, before once again matching up with its name next season when Texas and Oklahoma depart to the SEC to make it a nice, round 12-team league again.
Of course, given that realignment never stops, that could be only temporary. But that's not why we're here today. We're here to try to make some sense of a league that saw its 2021 title-game participants (Baylor and Oklahoma State) combine to go 13-13 last season.