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Big 12 a big winner during BCS era

By Tim Griffin
ESPN.com

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Big 12 was expected to be an immediate national title contender when the Bowl Championship Series was formed. Despite some early growing pains, the conference created by the shotgun marriage of the old Big Eight Conference with four expatriates from the Southwest Conference has immediately taken its place as a power conference. Though it's not quite at the national level of conferences like the Big Ten or the Southeastern in the BCS era, the Big 12 has carved out a couple of signatu ...

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