Well, sort of.

Tuesday marks the first day of the Big 12 Conference Media Days, an annual media event that involves all 16 member programs who will make their way to Frisco, Texas to answer a bevy of questions while presenting what they’ll present this coming season. The event will be televised on ESPNU and the Big12 Studios and will run two days from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. MST.

For BYU, it will enter the event armed with several notable returning starters on top of a 2025 season which saw Kalani Sitake and company largely meet and even exceed most expectations assigned them with a lot of positive momentum gained in recent weeks. This past week saw the Cougars reel in a significant 4-star local prospect, perhaps attesting to the increased profile BYU football has established after punching a ticket to the Big 12 Championship Game last season which it followed up with a win over Georgia Tech in the Pop-tarts Bowl.

Uhila Wolfgramm, a 6-foot-3, 250 pound defensive line prospect from Maple Mountain High School, committed to sign a letter of intent with the Cougars over Oklahoma, the same program which secured commitments from top local 4-star prospects Bode Sparrow and Krew Jones. Wolfgramm himself is a 4-star prospect with tremendous upside who held multiple offers from the likes of Utah, Michigan, and UCLA among several others.

Wolfgramm has plans to serve a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after graduating high school, so it may be a while until he becomes one of the faces to represent the Cougars at Media Days should he rise to meet his expectations. But even so, it was a big land for the Cougars on top of securing a commitment from 3-star offensive line prospect, Kyle Nabrotzky who is a 6-5, 280 prospect from Brentwood, Tennessee who chose BYU over the likes of Michigan, Virginia Tech and Duke, among others.

The two commitments bring BYU’s total to 12 for the 2027 class with the hope that at least a couple of them can rise to the stature to travel with Sitake and other coaches to Frisco or elsewhere to take on questions in future years.

This year BYU will present top players Bear Bachmeier (QB), LJ Martin (RB), Bruce Mitchell (OL), Keanu Tanuvasa (DL), Isaiah Glasker (LB) and Evan Johnson (CB.) All six are proven performers who can handle themselves well in interviews to cast a positive light on the program while representing the strength and momentum BYU currently has with the official kickoff of the 2026 college football season just under two months away.

Other programs will attempt to do the same with one of the biggest specters likely to be cast on a Texas Tech program, which is not only the defending Big 12 champions, but a program embroiled in a lot of offseason controversy stemming from the battle with the NCAA to field embattled Cincinnati starting quarterback Brendan Sorsby. Sorsby ultimately withdrew himself from the program, opting to declare of the NFL draft rather than take on the headwinds stemming from his admitted gambling improprieties.

How Texas Tech will replace Sorsby at quarterback will certainly be a major point of discussion while other programs will attempt to provide answers regarding their own endeavors. How does Utah look in the wake of the departure of long-time coach Kyle Whittingham and a great portion of the Ute’s coaching staff? Can Iowa State hope to prove competitive following the loss of its long-time head coach Matt Campbell along with most of the top Cyclone players from a year ago? Certainly Deion Sanders and his Colorado program always presents a lot of intrigue, as well.

Also on the plate will be issues such as a potential change to the current 12-team structure of the college football playoff, and whether the Big 12 remains resolute in its support of expanding the playoff to 24 teams. The so-called ‘Protect College Sports act’, which is enjoying rare bipartisan support in the US Senate, and how the act works to effectively address the current challenges of the collegiate sports structure will likely receive a lot of discussion, too.

All-in-all it should provide a much-needed kick off to the 2026 college football season for highly-involved fans who have been anxiously awaiting any type of football for several months now.