The Big 12 has declared war.
A formal resolution to arms may not have been drafted by the conference, but make no mistake about it. The Big 12 sees what’s happening across college football. It has seen the moves the SEC and Big Ten have made over the past year. The Big 12 will not idly sit by and wither away to a slow death while college football becomes a two-conference system.
Before anyone else had any ideas, the Big 12 hit the Pac-12’s newest rising star, Colorado. While the Buffs haven’t made any real noise in recent years on the field, they told everybody that they mean business by hiring head coach Deion Sanders. One of the most recognizable names in all of football, “Coach Prime” is exactly the type of figure who can bring Colorado back to its glory days.
Now, the Buffaloes are going back to the Big 12, a conference in which they experienced a lot of success in the early 2000s. It’s a power move by the Big 12 to grab Coach Prime before one of the other big conferences could, and it still has one move to make. It’s a bit of a risky maneuver, considering Colorado is going to have to reverse a mediocre tenure in the Pac-12, but it is a potential sleeping giant.
The Big 12 has taken its shot, now it’s time to aim for the head. Any self-respecting Big Ten fan knows now is the time to strike back for conference superiority. While the Big 12 congratulates itself on the coup, it’s time to show them how the big boys play. It starts by showing one of these schools the light and benefits that the premier athletics conference in the NCAA has to offer.
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