The 2014 season was a bit of a nightmare for the Big 12. The conference had two teams emerge as candidates for the inaugural College Football Playoff, but that left the conference brass in a pickle when it came to naming a conference champion as both finished with identical 11-1 records.
The Big 12 conference has a lot of momentum entering the 2014 college football season. It’s true that Texas is coming off of a Bowl loss to the Pac-12 Oregon Ducks, but the Oklahoma Sooners are riding high after their defeat of the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Baylor Bears are looking like a true contender at this point in their post-Robert Griffin III rebuild.
The Big 12 enters the 2012 football season with the same number of teams it ended last year with, but the entire face of the conference has changed. The perennial Big 12 powers remain intact, but both Missouri and Texas A&M have jumped-ship for the SEC.
