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New Big 12 begins
as elite conference
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
ST. LOUIS — For a baby, the Big
12 Conference is booming.
The new league begins this fall af
ter seven of its
members fin
ished the 1995
football season
ranked in the fi
nal top 25.
Six of
those teams won
bowl games.
Eight Big 12
players were
namea nrst-team
Hatchell All-Americans.
And Ne
braska winning its second straight na
tional title marked the 15th time a
school in the Big 12 finished No. 1 in
one of the two major polls.
To start the inaugural season on a
good note, six teams are ranked in the
preseason top 25, eye-popping num
bers for a league that no other confer
ence can match.
“I grew up in the Big Eight and
worked in the SWC,” Big 12 Commis
sioner Steve Hatchell said at the
league’s media day last month in St.
Louis. “And I like the idea that we are
starting off very much at the top, be
cause it’s well deserved.”
The conference is split into two di
“visions: The north— Nebraska, Colo
rado, Kansas State, Kansas, Iowa State
and Missouri; and the south—Texas,
Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor (for
merly of the Southwest Conference)
Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. The
divisional champions will meet in the
Big 12 championship game, Dec. 7 in
St. Louis.
Regardless of whether this confer
ence is a merger or simply an expan
sion of the Big Eight, everyone in
volved agreed that the Big 12 is a pow
erhouse.
Texas A&M Coach R.C. Slocum
said now is the perfect time for this
league to form.
“When you’re a coach or a player,
you always want to be right in the
middle of what’s going on,” Slocum
said.
Although every coach, player and
athletic director involved seems
thrilled with the conference, Kansas
State Coach Bill Snyder still reflects
on the past.
“I was in the Big Eight for seven
years, and I was fortunate to be in that
conference for that period of time,”
Snyder said. “I had fallen in love with
the Big Eight Conference.
“It’s sad to see it moving from the
Big Eight as we know it to the Big 12
just because I have great respect for
the Big Eight.*
“It is undeniably the best college
football conference in the United
States.”
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