5 Big 12 Teams Built to Dominate the Next Decade
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Big 12 doesn’t have a true long-term powerhouse right now, but can that change sooner than later?
In this video, I break down the 5 Big 12 sleeper programs best positioned to dominate the next decade, based on recruiting, coaching stability, NIL potential and overall trajectory.
Which team do YOU think is built to take over the Big 12 long-term? Let me know in the comments.
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| 0:00.0 | The five biggest sleepers in the Big 12 conference are, drum roll, I'll give them to you right here on Heartland College Sports Weekly. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Pete Mundo. |
| 0:10.2 | We are Heartland College Sports covering the Big 12 and glad you're here as a part of the show. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome in. |
| 0:16.9 | Thanks for joining us as always. |
| 0:19.0 | So I was thinking about this over the weekend, putting together |
| 0:22.1 | what I thought was, you know, the top five teams that would be considered sleepers for the |
| 0:29.8 | next five to 10 years in the Big 12. Now, here was my criteria. You could not win or have won a Big 12 championship in the last 10 years. So if you had |
| 0:41.6 | won a Big 12 championship, I'm taking you off the list. And once again, this is sleepers. So I'm |
| 0:48.0 | not going to put BYU in there. They've been really good the last couple of years in the Big 12. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm obviously not going to have them on that list. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm not going to have a team like Arizona State in there. |
| 1:02.4 | I mean, I can't. |
| 1:03.1 | They won a Big 12 title, but you get the point, right? |
| 1:06.0 | I'm not putting teams like even a Utah in there. |
| 1:09.4 | They haven't won a Big 12 title, but they've been really |
| 1:12.0 | good at every level in any conference. So I'm not putting Utah in there. So this is about finding |
| 1:18.2 | sleepers, teams that people are down on, teams that people are not thinking about, who really are |
| 1:24.6 | poised to find themselves in a position to be a top tier contender |
| 1:30.2 | year in, year out in the Big 12 conference. |
| 1:32.3 | Because right now, all eyes are on Texas Tech, but no one's really figured out who else |
| 1:38.9 | might be joining them. |
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