The BIG 12 Is Closing the Gap on the SEC, Big Ten and ACC in the NFL Draft
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo discusses how the BIG 12 is the CONFERENCE STOCK to buy right now when it comes to NFL Draft picks as compared to the SEC, Big Ten and ACC. Plus, Mundo runs down his TOP steals from the Big 12 Conference to watch, and how Texas Tech keeps surprising college and NFL experts.
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| 0:00.0 | Watch out ACC. The Big 12's coming on strong. Welcome in. I'm Pete Mundo. We're Heartland |
| 0:06.6 | College Sports. We cover the Big 12. And my message right now, whether you're a Big 12 fan watching |
| 0:13.5 | this or you're an ACC, SEC, SEC or Big 10 fan watching this, buy Big 12 stock stock when it comes to the future of the NFL draft and this league only growing |
| 0:27.5 | its share of NFL draft prospects in the years to come. |
| 0:31.7 | So grateful you're here. |
| 0:32.8 | Hey, make sure you're subscribed to the channel. |
| 0:34.5 | Thanks for joining us as always as a part of the show. |
| 0:37.1 | You can follow us as you can see below on YouTube or to the channel. Thanks for joining us as always as a part of the show. You can follow |
| 0:38.0 | us as you can see below on YouTube or on the podcast. Just search Heartland College sports on any |
| 0:43.5 | of your social media platforms. So the Big 12 just set a league record with 38 NFL draft picks this past |
| 0:51.5 | weekend in Pittsburgh. And if you're sitting there saying to yourself, well, I didn't know that. |
| 0:57.5 | Well, of course you did not know that. |
| 1:00.3 | Of course you didn't get a lot of attention on that. |
| 1:02.7 | Because guess what? |
| 1:04.1 | There are people who do not want to bring attention to that. |
| 1:08.3 | Like Kirk Herbstre, who when he talked about the first round of the NFL |
| 1:12.6 | draft, didn't even mention the Big 12 when he talked about the SEC, the Big 10, and the ACC. |
| 1:20.2 | But here are the actual numbers for the Big 12. The league had 38 picks in the draft. The prior |
| 1:26.6 | record was 35, set in 1997 and 2003. Now, to be fair, |
| 1:33.8 | because I will be fair, the league only had 12 teams then. They have 16 now. So in a per team |
| 1:40.9 | basis, obviously 97 and 03 still are better, right? |
| 1:44.8 | I mean, technically that is true. |
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