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The Big 12 has a plan for conference expansion. Brett Yormark likes to say he has been talking about the possibility of Big 12 expansion “for a year now,” dating back to the day he was hired ...
The university is in a holding pattern on conference expansion while the Big 12 waits out the Pac-12 as it negotiates its next media rights deal. But if the Pac-12 sticks together minus UCLA and ...
The Big 12 will be up to 16 teams in 2024 after two years of expansion. The conference added BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF in 2023 and welcome Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah this year.
With the losses of Texas and Oklahoma, the Big 12 Conference was reduced from 10 to 8 teams. On September 10, the Big 12 announced that BYU, an FBS independent and full member of the non-football West Coast Conference (WCC), along with American Athletic Conference (The American) members Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF would join the conference no later than 2024–25. [12]
UConn isn’t heading to the Big 12 in the near future. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said in a statement Thursday that the conference was “pausing” expansion discussions with the Huskies.
The expansion of the Big 12 continued in July 2023 with the announcement that Colorado would be returning to the conference in 2024 after a 13-year spell in the Pac-12. [68] The move reignited speculation that the Big 12 would add more members, with likely targets being remaining schools in the Pac-12.
Expansion requires a three-fourths vote, or 12 of the 16 members. Contingent upon the school meeting certain investment thresholds in the sport, UConn football would join the Big 12 in 2031.
A Big 12 official named Brigham Young University and the University of Louisville as other expansion candidates. [91] It would later leak that the Big 12's television partners were unenthusiastic about BYU. [92] With the loss of Texas A&M and its Aggie fan base, the conference thought there was now a need/opening for another Texas school.