In July, Texas and Oklahoma accepted an offer to move to the SEC in the 2025 season, further diminishing the number of teams in the Big 12. However, Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy believes the conference will not only replace those two schools, but add more on top of that.
“We could be at 14 very easily, five years from now, from what I’m hearing,” Gundy said, via The Oklahoman’s Barry Tramel. “I think there’s strength in numbers. When you watch this thing, the Big 12 always had some issues, because people would say, there’s only 10.”
It was reported in September that BYU, Houston, UCF and Cincinnati are expected to join the Big 12, with at least BYU joining as early as 2023. Those four additions, minus Texas and Oklahoma, would bring the number of Big 12 teams to 12, so there would need to be two more additions to complete Gundy’s prediction of 14.
