Oklahoma President wants 12 teams in Big 12: Why he’s exactly right

The Oklahoma President made it pretty clear that he wants 12 teams in the Big 12 and he’s exactly correct

Oklahoma President David Boren said something that we’ve all been thinking for quite some time now, and that’s the fact that the Big 12 Conference needs to be comprised of 12 teams. At a board of regents meeting on Wednesday, Boren had this to offer up.

A large group of people have been thinking this for a while now, and they absolutely should be because here’s the thing: David Boren is absolutely right to push for this.

There was no larger evidence of the fact that the Big 12 needs 12 teams than what happened last college football season to the TCU Horned Frogs and Baylor Bears. Both of these programs had stellar seasons, each finishing with just one loss in the regular season. Not to mention, they played one of the best games of the entire season last year that also featured an epic collapse by the Horned Frogs that we would come to find out would prevent them from ultimate glory.

While things got a little hectic in this one, there was still no denying that possibly both of these teams could be considered one of the four best teams in college football. Either one of these programs could have been playing for the national championship as part of the first-ever playoff system…but, that didn’t happen.

Even with TCU ranked at No. 3 heading into the final rankings week, the fourth and final nod for the College Football Playoff went to the Ohio State Buckeyes, who had just come off a blowout performance in the Big Ten Championship Game.

And that right there is where the real problem was. Ohio State was on a national stage showing off their dominance, while neither Baylor nor TCU would have been afforded the chance to do that. With only 10 teams comprising the conference, the league is not eligible to hold a championship game and it ended up being a death sentence for them in the end.

What makes the comments from Boren more impressive, however, is the fact that maybe his own school wouldn’t have had the same issue. TCU and Baylor aren’t exactly considered perennial powerhouses on the gridiron, so you have to wonder if it was Oklahoma that was sitting there at No. 3 in the rankings with just one loss, if Ohio State would have been left out, regardless of what they did to Wisconsin. That being said, Boren doesn’t have to worry about this problem as much as a lot of the other Big 12 Presidents, but he is.

Of course, there’s always the possibility that he himself can end up seeing some financial gain out of two more members joining the conference, and that might exactly be his motive here. But that doesn’t change the fact that he’s right about this.

Finding just two more schools to join the Big 12 should not be all that difficult of a task, and the conference should get on this as soon as possible to rectify all of this.