The Big 12 is interested in adding one more school, which would eventually bring the conference membership to 14 teams after Oklahoma and Texas leave for the SEC in 2024, multiple Big 12 sources told ESPN.
The Big 12 athletic directors met with commissioner Brett Yormark on Friday morning, one day after Colorado announced it would leave the Pac-12 and join the Big 12 following the 2023-24 season. «Fourteen seems to be our best number,» a source told ESPN. «Now that we're at 13, who's going to be the first to make a move to start having a conversation with us was the general discussion today.
We talked about a lot of different schools, but it's more about, 'Hey, we've got room for one more and who wants to be the first to really want to be a part of the Big 12 now and join us?'» With Big 12 co-founders OU and Texas playing their final season in the league, the Big 12 has added Cincinnati, Houston, BYU and UCF for this season.
As uncertainty continues to loom over the Pac-12, which will dwindle to nine members, sources have indicated that Arizona has sparked interest within the Big 12.