Can the Big 12 Win a National Championship Within 5 Years?!
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It's time to answer your BIGGEST questions this week with Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo, including whether or not the Big 12 can win a National Championship in college football in the next five years.
Who is MOST likely to do it? And Mundo answers the rest of your questions in our LIVE BIG 12 mailbag, Monday nights at 8 p.m. CT!
Questions include the odds of further Big 12 expansion, who is most likely to go, which teams will tap into private equity and how TV deals might shape up in the future!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's mailbag time in the Big 12 conference. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome in. |
| 0:04.3 | I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College Sports as we cover the Big 12. |
| 0:08.5 | Glad you're joining us as a part of the show. |
| 0:10.6 | I will get to all of your questions. |
| 0:13.0 | Drop them in. |
| 0:14.3 | Whether you're watching Facebook, YouTube, X, please also subscribe. |
| 0:17.5 | And the top question that I got asked on multiple occasions over the last couple of |
| 0:24.1 | days preparing for this mailbag tonight was Pete give me a team who can win it all in the next |
| 0:32.9 | five years in the big 12 conference so that is where I will start. But of course, I want you to get in here and drop some of your mailbag questions as well as we talk about everything happening across the Big 12 conference. And I'm looking at the Heartland College sports forums as well right now. We've got some mailbag questions that came through there as well. |
| 0:55.6 | But if you were to say to me, Pete, yes or no, is a Big 12 team going to win a national championship |
| 1:02.7 | in the next five years? My answer would be no. I'm not one to sit here sugarcoat it and BS you. But that's mostly an odds play by |
| 1:15.0 | me. You tell me right now, who do you feel really well positioned to win a big 12 championship |
| 1:22.2 | and then win a national championship in the next five years? Even if you say Texas Tech, |
| 1:31.8 | and they're the team closest to being in a position to making a deep run in the college football playoff, last time we saw them play football, |
| 1:36.8 | they got waxed by Oregon and frankly didn't look like they deserved to be on the field. |
| 1:41.0 | At least the offense didn't deserve to be on the field with the |
| 1:44.8 | Oregon Ducks. So I'm looking up and down the list and I'm like, okay, you're telling me I got to pick |
| 1:51.3 | a team to win a national championship in the next five years out of the Big 12 conference. Who am I |
| 1:56.3 | picking? It would be either Texas Tech just because of the simple numbers game, but I would go totally |
| 2:06.0 | off the wall if I had to pick another one. |
| 2:09.8 | The safe pick would be like BYU. |
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