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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 132002849" data-attributes="member: 1428007">More BIG 12 expansion could be on the way:The Big 12 seems likely to be a 14-team conference in 2023-24 and perhaps the year after that. But Mike Gundy says he believes the Big 12 could settle into a 14-team league even after<a href="https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/2021/07/29/ou-football-sec-roy-kramer-commissioner-college-football/5413178001/"> OU and Texas flee to the Southeastern Conference</a>. “We could be at 14 very easily, five years from now, from what I’m hearing,” Gundy said Tuesday. “I think there’s strength in numbers. When you watch this thing, the Big 12 always had some issues, because people would say, there’s only 10 (members).” Gundy’s assertion is not groundbreaking. <a href="https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/2021/10/29/big-12-commish-bob-bowlsby-still-uses-betrayal-describe-ou-texas/8580709002/">Others have mentioned further Big 12 expansion, including commissioner Bob Bowlsby</a>. “We’ll play with 14 for awhile,” Bowlsby told me awhile back. “Then we’ll fall back to 12, and we’ll reassess at that point. That could entail looking at targets for additional expansion, it could entail a strategy to get larger. “I feel very good about the four that we’ve brought in.”[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/columns/berry-tramel/2022/03/23/big-12-conference-realignment-14-team-league-mike-gundy-oklahoma-state-football/7138437001/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 132002849, member: 1428007"] More BIG 12 expansion could be on the way: The Big 12 seems likely to be a 14-team conference in 2023-24 and perhaps the year after that. But Mike Gundy says he believes the Big 12 could settle into a 14-team league even after[URL='https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/2021/07/29/ou-football-sec-roy-kramer-commissioner-college-football/5413178001/'] OU and Texas flee to the Southeastern Conference[/URL]. “We could be at 14 very easily, five years from now, from what I’m hearing,” Gundy said Tuesday. “I think there’s strength in numbers. When you watch this thing, the Big 12 always had some issues, because people would say, there’s only 10 (members).” Gundy’s assertion is not groundbreaking. [URL='https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/2021/10/29/big-12-commish-bob-bowlsby-still-uses-betrayal-describe-ou-texas/8580709002/']Others have mentioned further Big 12 expansion, including commissioner Bob Bowlsby[/URL]. “We’ll play with 14 for awhile,” Bowlsby told me awhile back. “Then we’ll fall back to 12, and we’ll reassess at that point. That could entail looking at targets for additional expansion, it could entail a strategy to get larger. “I feel very good about the four that we’ve brought in.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/columns/berry-tramel/2022/03/23/big-12-conference-realignment-14-team-league-mike-gundy-oklahoma-state-football/7138437001/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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