The Colorado Buffaloes are returning to a familiar home.
After 12 years as a member of the Pac-12 Conference, the Colorado board of regents unanimously voted on Thursday to re-join the Big 12 Conference at the start of the 2024-25 academic year.
Conversations between the Big 12 and other schools have been well documented ever since Oklahoma and Texas opted to join the SEC (they have one year left in the Big 12), and Colorado — a longtime member of the Big 8 and Big 12 — made sense as a natural fit. With the Pac-12 losing USC and UCLA to the Big Ten and remaining schools growing impatient about a new TV deal for the conference, the Pac-12 has never looked less stable.
On the flip side, the addition of Colorado would bring the Big 12 to 13 members in 2024, so it seems likely that we haven’t seen the last of Big 12 expansion.
Here are some schools that Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark would be wise to go after next.