Good bye Big 12-2-2+2. It was nice knowing you. The last 16 years have been good... to the Aggies. Sure, Aggie football has been lackluster for the most part over the last decade, but there are plenty of other sports out there.
According to the Big 12 Championships webiste, Texas A&M has won more Regular Season and Tournament Championships over the last 6 seasons (Fall 2006 to Summer 2012) that any other team in the Former Big 12:
Since I know someone might bring it up, I went ahead and counted the averages for 5 years back as well (Fall 2007 to Summer 2012). Also, the reason there is a .2 or .5 in there was in the case of a split regular season championship which happened on several occasions in Football, Basketball, etc.
As you can see from the chart above, Texas A&M won the most championships in the 06-07, 07-08, 10-11, and 11-12 seasons. Outstripping even the "wonder teams" from Austin in those years. Texas did have a banner year in 09-10, give yourselves a pat on the back from your big brother, Texas A&M. Baylor surprisingly, has been pretty consistent in winning at least three championships each year; dominating all the girls sports like Women's Basketball, Men's Tennis, and Women's Tennis seems to have really paid off for the Bears of the Brazos.
The Oklahoma schools have done smartly, each averaging over three championships a year but each have also dipped down into the one-championship range for a season.
Our fellow deserter to the SEC, Mizzou, has picked up steam over the last few years - especially considering where they were in 2006-2008. Kansas seems to win at Men's Basketball consistently - inking both the regular season and tournament championship year after year. Texas Tech has pulled out the occasional Women's Cross Country or Women's Tennis win, but back when Leach was building his co-Champ football team of 08-09, TTU was getting skunked on championships in other sports.
Of the bottom-feeders, what can you say? Colorado took the narrow-window opportunity to split and finally was able to convince the PAC-12 to take them in, but only because they were afraid that Baylor might take their spot in a 16-team PAC conference. (Remember back in 2010 when all the conference realignment brouhaha started and it was t.u. leading the vanguard of five schools to the west coast? And it was Texas A&M playing the hero for pulling them back into the fold?) Anyways, Iowa State hasn't done squat in 3 years, and lowly K-State has been absolutely terrible for six seasons (at least K-State has its academic reputation to fall back on; oh wait, what's that? they are ranked #143 out of #194 schools according the US News).
So congratulations to the Big 12 for signing up some true powerhouses in West Virginia and Texas Christian while "running off" the 800-lb Collie when it comes to Conference Championships over the last 5-6 years.
You really upgraded.
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