New-look Big 12 ready to embark on a season of big expectations, enormous pressure to win
The new-look Big 12 begins play this weekend and the pressure is on to perform
By DAVE SKRETTA
Published - Aug 27, 2024, 01:34 PM ET
Last Updated - Aug 27, 2024, 01:34 PM EDT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — All the talk is over in the Big 12. The preseason hype has hit and settled.
Now it's time for the new-look conference, where longtime members Oklahoma and Texas have been replaced by Arizona State, Arizona, Utah and Colorado in the latest round of college football musical chairs, to prove its worth on the field.
The newcomers don't exactly have it easy out of the gate.
Start with the Sun Devils, who open Saturday with perennially bowl-bound Wyoming, which won nine games a year ago. The Cowboys' season ended with a win over Toledo in the Arizona Bowl, which the No. 21 Wildcats call home.
