If Big 12 invites Cincinnati, Big Ten and Urban Meyer will have recruiting competition on doorstep

The Big 12 has apparently seen the light and is following it. After a lot of disagreement and even discord over the prospect of expanding, the only Power Five conference with fewer than a dozen schools has definitively chosen to not only pursue expanding but doing so with alacrity and gusto – at least two and maybe four new members to be announced within the next month. Nobody is more plugged in to the Big 12 than Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com. Here's his report from Thursday. What does this mean for the 14-team Big Ten? It's not to be discounted. Because while the B1G has concentrated on expanding its own footprint both west (Nebraska) and east (Maryland and Rutgers) the last five years,...