On Wednesday, the Big 12 will kick off media day season as college football inches one step closer to returning.
It will be the last Big 12 Media Days that feature Oklahoma and Texas, while it’s the first for BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston as members of the Big 12. There will surely be a lot of questions to go around for each one of the conference’s 14 programs entering this fall in what is a big transitionary season for the conference, as it leaves one era of conference history and enters another.
With that, College Sports Wire poses one question for each Big 12 program to answer this week. Before diving into each program, however, there is one question for Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark to answer.
Commissioner Brett Yormark: What is next for the Big 12?
The Big 12 and commissioner Brett Yormark, despite many challenges, were able to find a way to stabilize the conference by adding BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston. That being said, not all the challenges have been navigated just yet.
What is next for the Big 12? Is the conference still looking to expand in the near future? The next wave of conference realignment is only truly beginning, and the conference was able to get ahead of the curve this season by adding those four programs. Next July, Oklahoma and Texas will make the jump to the SEC, while USC and UCLA make the move from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten.
While Yormark, of course, won’t give specific answers to any of the questions regarding future realignment, what type of blanket statement he gives regarding the topic will be an intriguing focal point of his time at the podium this week.