{"id":831867,"date":"2026-05-30T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/831867\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:31:14","slug":"brett-yormark-big-12-football-is-deepest-conference-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/831867\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Yormark: Big 12 football is ‘deepest conference in America’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark<\/strong> is standing with his conference. On Friday, Yormark claimed that he believes the Big 12 is the deepest football conference in America.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn football, I think we are the deepest conference in America,\u201d Yormark said. Last season, Big 12 teams compiled a combined 107-87 record. Eight teams from the conference participated in bowl games, while Kansas State<\/a><\/strong> and Iowa State<\/a><\/strong> turned down postseason invites. In those eight games, Big 12 teams were 4-4.<\/p>\n

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The Big 12 had one representative in the 2025-26 College Football Playoff, the Texas Tech Red Raiders. BYU, which lost in the Big 12 Championship to Texas Tech, was the second team out of the Playoff. In Texas Tech\u2019s Playoff game, it fell to Oregon 23-0 in the Orange Bowl.<\/p>\n

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Brett Yormark: “In football, I think we are the deepest conference in America.”<\/p>\n

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Yormark\u2019s comments come just two days after SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey<\/strong> called his conference the strongest football conference in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the entirety of our league, we are by far the most competitive, the strongest football league. By far,\u201d Sankey said Wednesday at the SEC\u2019s spring meetings. \u201cBut you\u2019re going to lose games when it\u2019s close and competitive like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo why have they surpassed us? It\u2019s an odd ball that\u2019s bounced a couple times the wrong way. Indiana was pretty dominant in the Rose Bowl last year. A lot of other games, you look, pretty close margin. And we\u2019ve been the beneficiary on those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big Ten Conference has won last three National Championships<\/p>\n

Ironically, neither team from the Big 12 or SEC has won the National Championship since 2022 (Georgia<\/a><\/strong>). Three different teams from the Big Ten (Michigan<\/a><\/strong>, Ohio State<\/a><\/strong>, and Indiana<\/a><\/strong>) have won the last three national championships.<\/p>\n

Since the College Football Playoff began in 2014, the SEC has led the way with six National Championships. The Big Ten trails behind with four, followed by the ACC (two). The Big 12 has not won a title in the CFP era.<\/p>\n

So why does Sankey believe the SEC is the best conference in the country? Metrics from the College Football Playoff presentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a competitive environment, the margins are going to be thin,\u201d Sankey said. \u201cWe\u2019ve come up on the short end. I can assure you everyone in this league is trying to figure out how to come up on the top end of that in the future. But I think, from a big-picture [perspective], the breadth, the depth of this league, this league stands alone. In fact, we saw metrics out of the\u00a0College Football Playoff<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0presentation where there\u2019s no doubt we\u2019re the strongest league.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, there\u2019s some segments of other leagues that are towards where we are, but not nearly the entirety of a conference like the Southeastern Conference. It\u2019s a pretty special place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark is standing with his conference. On Friday, Yormark claimed that he believes the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":831868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[200625,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-831867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-brett-yormark","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116662362940738010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}