College Football: Pac 12 vs. Big 12 Debate and Comparisons
By Ryan Kay
The Big 12 wins because Colorado and other Pac 12 schools left to join the Big 12 conference starting in 2024.
The Pac-12 has a ton of tradition and has some amazing schools that thrive academically, financially, and in various sports. The 2023 football season will see twelve teams take the field but four of them are going to the Big Ten conference in UCLA, USC, Oregon, and Washington. Colorado is going to the Big 12 and it is heavily rumored that Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State will be joining them.
The four schools that likely remain are Cal, Stanford, Oregon State, and Washington State. The Pac-12 can expand and add schools like San Diego State, SMU, Tulane, Memphis, South Florida, Air Force, and Colorado State but they may not be enough to save the conference.
The schools not compared in the article to Pac-12 teams in BYU, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, UCF, and Texas Tech hold value and bring something positive to the Big 12 conference. Any of those five Big 12 schools in comparison to any additions the Pac-12 may add, will be considered a more valuable school. In the end, the Big 12 won the conference realignment battle between the two conferences.