Dana Holgorsen points to Texas, Texas A&M for Houston not joining Big 12 sooner: ‘Screw them’

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Conference realignment has flipped regional rivalries in college athletics on its head as schools depart for greener pastures in a changing media market. 

No conference has been more involved in realignment than the Big 12, which added four schools for the 2023-24 seasons and will add four more next year. 

The Big 12 logo is seen on a goal post before the game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Baylor Bears in the Big 12 Football Championship at AT&T Stadium on December 4, 2021 in Arlington, Texas. Baylor won 21-16. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

The Big 12 will play with 16 teams during the 2023-24 seasons before Texas and Oklahoma leave for the SEC after the year. 

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On Tuesday, Houston Cougars head football coach Dana Holgorsen was asked by a caller on his radio show about the desirability of the conference without Texas and Texas A&M, which left for the SEC in 2012.

"One of the disappointments I have is the conference coming up," the called said. "I think everybody when they told you, ‘Oh we want to be in a bigger conference, we want to be in a better conference,’ they were assuming the conference was gonna contain Texas and Texas A&M. That has since changed, and I’m a bit disappointed in that, and I’m sure other people are."

Holgorsen disagreed with the caller, blaming the two schools for why Houston did not join the Big 12 earlier. 

"You can have that opinion about Texas and Texas A&M if you want to, but they’re the reasons we weren’t in the Big 12," Holgorsen said. "Those two are the specific reasons why we haven’t