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BIG 12 SQUAD - Big 12 REALIGNMENT CHATTER | What will happen to UCF?

March 5, 2026·31 min·2 clips

Texas Tech's Cody Campbell says the SEC and Big Ten must be stopped now to prevent them from dismantling college athletics.

The Every Dayer Club read clears, then the Big 12 squad jumps straight into realignment noise. Louisville gets floated as a useful add before Cody Campbell's warning about the SEC and Big Ten sets the mood. Nobody sits on the fence for long. Josh Pate's hypothetical becomes the excuse everyone needed to drag old conference wounds back into the room. Utah catches the hardest shot. One voice sounds worn out by the thought of being tied to Utah again, even joking that Rice would be better if it meant dodging that matchup. ASU nostalgia cuts through, but not softly. The Arizona State angle is basically: fine, bring Utah back if that also brings another chance to crush Oregon's dreams in the desert. Geography gets its turn too. Stanford in the ACC becomes the easy example of how weird the modern map looks once old regional logic gets tossed out. The Dallas jab lands. The panel riffs that the California schools are at least on a coast, while the Dallas ponies do not exactly feel Atlantic. Then the Big East ghosts show up. Maryland, West Virginia, Rutgers, and USF all get pulled in as everyone tries to remember which old rivalries actually made sense. USF gets a real receipt, with the panel noting its climb to number two in the country during the Big East run. West Virginia brings the heavier mood. The Mountaineer side says the Flying WV has lost brand power in both major sports after Bob Huggins was let go and Neil Brown took over, and admits the work has to start before time runs out. By the end, Paul is the wise sage, Oklahoma State catches hockey-school jokes, wrestling gets a mention, and the episode leaves like a conference bar argument that found a microphone.

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Conference chaos, argued in real time.

This episode takes a loose, argumentative look at Big 12 realignment, pulling Utah, Stanford, the ACC, the Big East, and Louisville into the same sprawling map-drawing conversation.

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You want Big 12 chaos, school-by-school takes, and zero patience for soft conference talk.

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