Big 12 Winners and Losers: Tech is Hated, Big Ten and SEC's LAME Excuses and More
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this week's winners and losers across the Big 12, Pete Mundo runs down three BIG winners, and three BIG losers, from Texas Tech owning all the blue bloods, to the Big Ten and SEC crying to congress, and the great run of college baseball, there was plenty to discuss this week!
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk winners and losers this week in the Big 12 conference. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College Sports. |
| 0:07.0 | I have three winners and three losers that I'm going to get to from the week that was. |
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| 0:22.2 | and review. So my first winner this week, Texas Tech. I don't care what it is. I don't care |
| 0:31.2 | if it's softball making the World Series in dramatic fashion. If it is Joy McGuire and Cody Campbell going after Texas, |
| 0:41.7 | if it's Cody Campbell helping drive the conversation around where we go from here when it comes |
| 0:47.9 | to the future of college athletics, Congress is involved, all the big programs involved, |
| 0:54.1 | the conference is involved. Cody Campbell's |
| 0:56.2 | voice is there. Texas Tech is at the center of the college sports universe right now. And there is no |
| 1:04.6 | denying that. I don't care how you feel. I don't care if you're upset about it. Maybe you kind of |
| 1:10.0 | feel like this is tech being out of its lane. It's the new world ordering college football. Tech's not going anywhere. They're all in. They're making a lot of noise. And by the way, if you're a big 12 fan, you should be happy about this. Somebody has grabbed the bull by the horns and said, you know what, we're going to do |
| 1:29.6 | that. We're going to go there. Like, BYU has a national brand, right? But let's be honest, |
| 1:35.8 | BYU's not going to be the program that's going to ruffle a lot of feathers, at least not on purpose. |
| 1:41.4 | Like, they'll do it because people just get triggered randomly by BYU. |
| 1:46.3 | But all in all, BYU is not going to be that let's just light the thing on fire, |
| 1:52.8 | watch it burn and smile while we're doing it. |
| 1:55.6 | And I'm not saying tech is letting anything burn. |
| 1:57.9 | I'm just saying they're a disruptor right now in the college sports space. |
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