The Disaster Awaiting BYU & the Big 12 in 2026, GameDay Questions & More | Big 12 Mailbag
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Big 12 mailbag, Pete Mundo discusses the disaster awaiting BYU and the Big 12 Conference in 2026 at the hands of Notre Dame and an awful College Football Playoff model.
Plus, can the Big 12 surprise with College GameDay appearances next season? That and more of your questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Disaster is awaiting. |
| 0:03.2 | BYU and the Big 12 of 20 in 20, 26, if things just get incredibly chaotic and go absolutely |
| 0:09.6 | off the wall. |
| 0:11.4 | Let's talk about it on the Big 12 Mailbag edition here on Heartland College Sports. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Pete Mundo. |
| 0:17.8 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:19.4 | Make sure you're subscribed. |
| 0:20.7 | Get your questions in now as we talk |
| 0:22.9 | Big 12 football, basketball, March Madness is now a month away. Can't believe it. Before you know it, |
| 0:28.9 | we'll be in the baseball and softball as well. So this has gotten a lot of attention and I've gotten |
| 0:34.7 | a lot of questions about this for many of you. So I'll start the conversation here. The 2026 season is shaping up to be a worst case |
| 0:44.1 | scenario for the Big 12 conference. The Big 12 will get its one team in. The conference |
| 0:50.7 | champion will get in. I am here to make the prediction that the Big 12 will not get two teams into the college football |
| 0:57.7 | playoff this year. |
| 0:59.3 | Now you're probably like, Pete, wait, you're the biggest advocate we've got here in the Big 12. |
| 1:03.4 | What do you mean? |
| 1:04.2 | How could you be such a Debbie Downer? |
| 1:05.9 | It's, you know, February because of how the thing is set up. |
| 1:11.4 | That's why. |
| 1:12.7 | It got more difficult in this new 12-team format for the Big 12 to get two-team in. |
| 1:18.1 | And by new format, I mean the new format coming up in 2026, which is different from the format in 2025. |
| 1:26.7 | What we know now is that there will be automatic bids to each power four champion. |
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