It’s nit picky but Louisville is in the eastern time zone too lol. Great vid tho!

College football history is so interesting and over looked by the casual fan

This is a dope take off history of football. Doing this for all conferences would be dope.

I'm not about to redo this entire video lol. Welcome back, Colorado. We left the light on for you.

This was a great video. This was one of the best conferences in the nation in the 2000s. I always think how good they could have been if you had the original 12 plus TCU & Arkansas.

Watching this after all the recent realignment news. The big 12s story is so powerful and I’m very glad that the conference seems stable for the first time in years! I only hope that we can get a couple of the great rivalries back into the conference in the future.

8 days ago? The Big 12 has not faded away! I still very much like the video.

I had that Big 8 Hardee's basketball!

This is awesome!!! Love the history of these conferences and would love to see more. Great work.

As a WVU alum and fan, it's surreal to be doing this again. However, this is the first time there's a sense of optimism rather than dread. It'd be splendid to witness Pitt AND Louisville come groveling back.

This was such a fantastic video. Please make more college football videos - we really need more like this for CFB.

GREAT VIDEO. This is the Type Of Content I Have Been Needing In my Life.

Fantastic! More of this style 🙏🏻🙏🏻

You can thank UT and the Longhorn Network as to the reason for the fall of the Big 12, just like they had a heavy hand in the fall of the SWC Also A&M never had plans to move to the Pac-12. There is a long history of A&M trying to get to the SEC that goes back to the end of the SWC.

This was really good, great job

Probably one of the best college football history videos on the site. We have so many great channels that cover other sports history well but cfb just seems to be lacking and never know why. Definitely make more

Firstly, great job and excellent execution. I know the world revolves around money but if OU and Texas had any type of leadership, they would’ve went to the Big XII and poached PAC-12 schools and added the four they did. I think trying to create the first “super conference “ of 20 schools would’ve been very successful. 20 schools broken up into divisions that make sense geographically. This not only helps travel but would also create long lasting rivalries moving forward. West: Oregon, Washington, BYU, Utah, Colorado South: Texas, Tech, TCU, Baylor, Houston North: OU, oSu, K-state, Kansas, Iowa State East: Cincinnati, UCF, WVU, Pitt, Louisville Everyone within the division plays each other and 7 conference non-divisional games (11 games) Divisional winners play (4 teams) and winners go to a conference championship (more like basketball). I find that to be entertaining and the rotation between playing out of division opponents keeps the games fresh and new for fans while playing division games would create some awesome rivalries. Unfortunately, it’s just the same old 💩 moving forward.

This is great work! Would love to see more documentaries about CFB like this that aren’t so sensationalized. Thank you!!

one of the better vids on this site. please make all conferences and just great job!

You nailed it! Very well done.

Big 12 ✊🏻

Loving these conference deep dives!

Your videos are truly amazing. Keep up the stellar work!

Awesome video. Love how you used historic logos as time progressed

Great video. Really puts into perspective that there was never a huge period of time with NO realignment. We feel like everything is changing, but they’ve always been changing, but cfb never stopped being great. We’re gonna be ok 👍🏾.

I've been a huge Nebraska fan my whole life. I remember the Big 12 fondly but Texass ruined the conference. They treated it like a fiefdom and forced the conference to appeas them. We had to get out. I remember clearly the big fear was being left behind if the conference fell apart. Also, to not mention the 2009 Big 12 conference championship game where the refs pit a second back on the clock to give Texass the win, I think that game solidified anti Big 12 sentiment in the fanbase. It did for me at least

A great video, fun fact with New Mexico is they were invited to the big 12 along with BYU in 1997 but turned it downed to stay in the WAC that they founded. Big 12 has the name Big 14 trademarked still hence one of the reasons the big 10 never changed its name outside of branding

Love these videos. Keep up the great content. Very informative and entertaining 💯

Brett will take this conference to another level

Great editing and commentary!

Super high quality and in depth, would love if you could do this for other conferences

This was great dude- keep it up.

Love these videos bro you have to keep pumping em out

Awesome job on this video!

Great work!

First time seeing this channel. Great vid

Great video

Great video. History is important.

Well done

Great documentary. I really enjoyed it.

I was so surprised you are such a small channel. Such great content. Love your content from deep in the SEC territory in Bama

This channel is so underrated

Well done! Great video

Awesome Video

Awesome video! I love college sports

Thank you for teaching me about Jack Trice. I had no idea!

dope video!!

Great video!

fantastic video

Please make this a series

I actually think the move for automatic bids for power 5 conference champs was a brilliant move by the NCAA from the perspective of trying to keep the power 5 alive. It gives a strong incentive for a school that’s currently not that big a fish in a big pond, like A&M or Florida, to find a home in one of the less competitive conference like the Big 12 or the ACC. Winning a weaker power 5 likely would prove more lucrative with the national televised game and higher enrollment that I assume without looking into it that winning national titles brings. It remains to be seen if it will play out like this of course

Great video! Next can you make one about the big East or what’s going on in the ACC

P.S. Great job! New Subscriber!

Here after Colorado announced their return

I had 3 of the Hardee's SEC basketballs! Thanks for that blast from the past... That was awesome. I'm 35 but I remember being about 10 to 12 years old playing with my Hardee's SEC basketballs.

danng bro you deserve more subs

NCAA should of done a better job to make things fair. As a kstate fan I will always love the wildcats even if they are playing ucf instead of Oklahoma. I miss Nebraska and Mizzou (relish that they are so mediocre now). As I live in big ten country. I get the opposite. My Illini playing ucla in basketball is going to be dope. But weird

Great video, I love the hateful 8

This is fantastic, would love to see it for the other conferences as realignment has killed much of the regionality of other conferences as well.

Hi, Lucas! First of all, congratulations on your excellent video of the History of the Big 12 Conference. As a sports history buff, I'm very impressed with the excellent job you've done. I was wondering if you're planning on doing a video about the Big East Conference, the one that existed from 1979-2013. Let me know if you are, because I'm curious on what your take is, including the part when Joe Paterno wanted to originally take Penn State to the Big East back in the day. Anyway, I look forward to watching future videos from you in the future. Keep up the good work!

"Small victories may be the only thing the Big XII can win in the long run." That statement did not age well.

This video is super well done. As an Oklahoma fan, I’m glad to be leaving but I grew up on Big 12 sports so there’s always love in my heart. Only thing I hate is that this upcoming season is the last for Bedlam

Good stuff

Great video for sure, that music is damn loud tho 😂😂

With the news of Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah joining now, I think we are going to see a new super conference be made.

Big 12 in the late 90's and early 2000's was a bad ass conference, arguably the toughest one during that time, before the SEC blew up.

Great video, so interesting to continue to learn about the new conference. UCF has been a team with no clear path ahead of it and the odds stacked against it, but we continue to fight for every opportunity. We are a young program with a ferocious fanbase, a solid foundation, great recruitment potential, and a dream to be big. Although the future is unsure, I have great confidence in what's being built in the BIG 12

Nice work. Thank you.

Waiting for the sec one 🔥

Great video but Louisville is not in the Central Time Zone, it's in the Eastern Time Zone. Technically, a part of the metro area in Indiana was in the Central Time Zone for half the year bc they did not recognize DST. However, that ended many years ago.

Great video! However, the timeline of Nebraskas exit is slightly off. The six teams flirting with the PAC10 was going on before NU left for the Big10. In fact, that flirtation was pretty much the final straw for NU athletics.

Guess whos back

Cincinnati and Louisville are in the Eastern time zone. Great video though! Hope you do ones for the B1G and SEC

Love it

I still have that Big 8 basketball from Hardee's in our garage

I just wonder how many conferences has TCU played in? BYU has been an Independent, in Mountain West, and I think the WAC! But TCU has been conference shopping for decades.

I am an Iowa State fan and alum, and at heart a die hard Big 8 guy (despite only being turning 8 myself in October 1996). This was a great video, very well done, and even brought a slight tear to my eye reminiscing about the original Big XII, and by extension the Big 8. Despite the Big XII officially not considering the Big 8 part of it's history, as far as I am concerned, the Big 6/7/8 and XII are one and the same. I am SO pumped for the new Big XII as not only is it now the top basketball conference, but there will be so much parity in football now. Just based on recent the recent histories going back the last decade or so, ANYONE could win it in football any given year (Hell, even Kansas if Leipold sticks around long term). I really hope Colorado comes back so we can then have 4 of the 6 original North schools again (not mention Big 8 member), but despite the circumatances under which they left (they wanted to be like the popular kids and try to fit in with everyone else), I would even welcome Missouri back as well. Nebraska can rot in hell though. Fuck them. Big 8 Forever!! Edit: After seeing the part where Mizzou, KU, OU, and CU were looking elsewhere, I suppose it was simply a matter of time and fate that CU went to the Pac-12 (I still want them back though). It was no secret that Mizzou wanted to join the Big Ten a decade ago, but I never knew they wanted to join as far back as 30 years ago. Maybe I don't want Mizzou back anymore....

That commercial for Big 8 basketballs takes me back. Everyone growing up had those basketballs. Simpler times.

Great video and who's here after the 4 corner school left the pac for the big xii

Dude, this rocks. Do all the conferences. I saw the PAC history then this one, but you have this down.

Just going to add some context on the Big 12s formation So basically Texas wanted to go to the Pac 10 but they were getting nowhere and the SEC told A&M that it could not join all by itself. So both were back to square one. The idea of a merger was never seriously considered but what was, was a merger of the television rights. So both the Big 8 and SWC would sell their rights together, combine their television footprint, and then host a championship style game at the end of the season. They would also schedule OOC games between eachother. The Big 8 ultimately passed because they had no want for any Texas school outside of UT and A&M. So thats where things stood. After trying to go their own ways but getting nowhere, and after the Big 8 made it clear that they had no interest in a TV package, A&M and UT were going to join the Big 8 as the only two SWC members invited. Thats when shit hit the fan and it was a good time for Baylor and Tech to have influential state politicians. Those politicians, led by Bob Bullock, both threatened A&M and UT with budget cuts and also bribed them, A&M got the votes it needed to build Reed Arena, to tie themselves to both Baylor and Tech. And thats how Baylor and Tech got their spots It was a shotgun wedding from the get go

I disagree with the beginning of this video if you take out brands and just look at what the big 12 has done athletically the last 4 years it’s a conference on the rise. Basketball: Baylor 2021 champs Kansas 2022 champs Football: Baylor sugar bowl win Cincinnati playoff appearance TCU playoff win ( over Michigan)

I miss the southern plains conference. It was a source of pride that at least during football, basketball, and wrestling, they had to respect the middle of the country.

Love the video, just want to add a few things. First, as of today it has been confirmed that Colorado is coming back, as well as San Diego state can’t join until 2 years from now with a 30 some million buyout. 2 with Colorado gone and USC and UCLA looking towards other places, Big 12 is in talks with Oregon and Washington. 3 Brett Yormark is looking to separate the media deals with basketball and Football, if this happens, most teams will be more valued on their basketball programs, meaning a lot more money in the conference

Can you do one on the big 10 ?

Optimal video

As an Utah fan and alum, I’m stoked to join the Big12 and regret the hostility engendered between fanbases because of TV deal positioning. Should be a great cultural fit, and the rivalry of BYU and Utah will add tv viewers for sure.

Can you do one of these for the SWAC and one for the SIAC? I’d appreciate the hell out of that. This deep dive is interesting as fuck.

I could see a future where major conferences like the Big 10 and XII do not stick to one particular region but have major colleges throughout the country. Whether it's USC vs Rutgers in the Big 10 or Arizona State vs Pitt in the Big XII. The only conference I couldn't see that happening in that could still thrive is the SEC.

I think as a Utah fan I should learn about my new conference next year

SEC conference vid next?🤔

I’m glad my Buffs are coming home. Never should have left the Big 12!

Don't agree with all of the details here but its.a great piece.

We (the fans) would all be happier if college sports went back to geographically based conferences of 8-12 teams.

This is awesome , but you said icon was a basketball only school, but they have a football program, but still a great video

Should add a short update for this video.. just mention that UA, ASU, CU and Utah are joining the XII

With the fall of the PAC 12. It looks like they’re a powerhouse again.

But my dad has told me so many times that college sports are about more than money! Surely he couldn't be looking at this through rose colored glasses right?

The Big 12 has won two of the last three men's basketball championships

I swear to god if UConn goes to the Big 12 I'll never forgive them. Going back to the Big East (who welcomed them back with open arms) was a huge part of why they won the title this past year. Leaving this soon after rejoining because of a few mediocre football seasons at the independent level; I can't think of a bigger middle finger to the Big East than that. If they go to the Big 12, that'll castrate their recruiting pipeline and fan interest since their nearest opponents will be literally hundreds of miles away. We saw what happened when they joined the AAC. All for money and a football dream that is just never going to come true.