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<blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 132477162" data-attributes="member: 1812660">While the Big 12 isn't a powerhouse and has no premier teams, it looks like collehe football is moving toward only the Big 10 and SEC having premier teams.&nbsp; Big 12 being the first conference without and replacing the lost programs with the best middling teams out there may have been a blessing in its competition with the ACC and PAC 12.&nbsp; Only Kansas, Houston, and UCF are historically bad programs in the Big 12.&nbsp; While the you can argue they haven't been lately, their histories have been.&nbsp; BYU and Cincy were never world beaters, but were decent enough middling programs for the last 20 or so years.&nbsp; Hell the Big 10 has NW, Illinois, Indiana, Rutgers, Purdue and Minnesota all in within the same conversation with the bottom of the Big 12 over the last 2 decades.&nbsp; So a middling program on a conference where middling teams and doormats are all that is left, having to add G5 teams like UCONN which are likely to become more doormats vs joining a conference where the floor is set like Big 12 is really not much of a choice at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Bell Tolls for Thee, post: 132477162, member: 1812660"] While the Big 12 isn't a powerhouse and has no premier teams, it looks like collehe football is moving toward only the Big 10 and SEC having premier teams. Big 12 being the first conference without and replacing the lost programs with the best middling teams out there may have been a blessing in its competition with the ACC and PAC 12. Only Kansas, Houston, and UCF are historically bad programs in the Big 12. While the you can argue they haven't been lately, their histories have been. BYU and Cincy were never world beaters, but were decent enough middling programs for the last 20 or so years. Hell the Big 10 has NW, Illinois, Indiana, Rutgers, Purdue and Minnesota all in within the same conversation with the bottom of the Big 12 over the last 2 decades. So a middling program on a conference where middling teams and doormats are all that is left, having to add G5 teams like UCONN which are likely to become more doormats vs joining a conference where the floor is set like Big 12 is really not much of a choice at all. [/QUOTE]

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