I dunno, we act like the Big 12 is some instant-in league because we had 3 top ten teams going into championship weekend. Remember 2012? 2011? Hell, even last year. The difference this year was that the chronically unchallenged SEC West teams got shook up and loosened their stranglehold on the top ten for the SEC. A couple of different bounces and we could have had all three big 12 teams licking the outside of the top ten, looking in. The sad fact is that even compared to a crappier ACC, the Big 12 isn't a huge leap up for those teams. SEC/Pac 12 get the default nod and B10 money will push whoever the standard bearer is into a final four most years. We're just the slightly better #4 in the pecking order.