Big 12 Football: 3 teams that would benefit from leaving the conference

There are three teams that stick out for various reasons as to why they would benefit to some degree by leaving the Big 12 football conference.

The Big 12 Football conference is one of three of the Power Five conferences around the country that are looking to actually have a 2020 college football season. The Big 12, ACC, and SEC, are pushing ahead to at least try and see what could happen if a 2020 season is played this fall. Meanwhile, the Big Ten and PAC-12 are likely looking for around a spring start time for the football season.

But, according to a report from Adam Rittenberg and Mark Schlabach of ESPN earlier in the week, the Big Ten is considering a Thanksgiving Weekend start date to the 2020 college football season. That would be a welcome start date to a number of Big Ten football fans in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, to here that conference is at least trying to start the season at a soon date.

In the realm of the Big 12, the Texas football program is one of the driving forces of all of the national attention that is put on this conference. Teams like the Longhorns and the Oklahoma schools are going to be the most important, and likely the best teams, to watch in the Big 12 this fall.

The Longhorns, Oklahoma Sooners, and Oklahoma State Cowboys, were all ranked in the top 15 of the AP Poll in the preseason for the 2020 campaign.

There are also teams at the bottom of the Big 12 that have struggled to make headway on the gridiron over the course of the last decade or so. Could those programs benefit from a change of scenery if the Big 12 were to go through another reshaping like they did in the early 2010’s?