Big 12 Conference

The Big 12 Conference (stylized XII) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. It is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

The Big 12 is a member of the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition.

The Big 12 is one of the Power Four conferences, the four highest-earning and most historically successful FBS football conferences. Power Four conferences are guaranteed at least one bid to a New Year's Six bowl game and have been granted exemptions from certain NCAA rules.

The Big 12 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Brett Yormark became the commissioner on August 1, 2022.

The Big 12 was founded in February 1994. All eight members of the former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference (Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech) to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996.

In 2011, Colorado and Nebraska left the conference to join the Pac-12 and Big Ten, respectively. One year later, Missouri and Texas A&M departed for the Southeastern Conference, and TCU and West Virginia joined.

BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF joined the conference for the 2023–2024 season. The next season Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah joined the conference, Colorado rejoined, and Texas and Oklahoma left as part of a more extensive NCAA conference realignment.

Member universities

Full members

Institution	Location	Founded	Type	Enrollment (fall 2023)	Endowment (billions – FY24)	Nickname	JoinedTemplate:Efn	Colors
University of Arizona	Tucson, Arizona	1885	Public	53,001	$1.387	Wildcats	2024	Template:College color boxes
Arizona State University	Tempe, ArizonaTemplate:Efn			79,593Template:Efn	$1.592	Sun Devils		Template:College color boxes
Baylor University	Waco, Texas	1845	Private (Baptist)	20,824	$2.094	Bears	1996	Template:College color boxes
Brigham Young University	Provo, Utah	1875	Private (LDS)	35,074	$3.080	Cougars	2023	Template:College color boxes
University of Central Florida	Orlando, FloridaTemplate:Efn	1963	Public	69,233	$0.255	Knights		Template:College color boxes
University of Cincinnati	Cincinnati, Ohio	1819		43,338	$2.016	Bearcats		Template:College color boxes
University of Colorado Boulder	Boulder, Colorado	1876		41,432	$2.245 (system-wide)	Buffaloes	Template:Sort	Template:College color boxes
University of Houston	Houston, Texas	1927		46,676	$1.113 (system-wide)	Cougars	2023	Template:College color boxes
Iowa State University	Ames, Iowa	1858		30,177	$1.717	Cyclones	1996	Template:College color boxes
University of Kansas	Lawrence, Kansas	1865		28,406	$2.525	Jayhawks		Template:College color boxes
Kansas State University	Manhattan, Kansas	1863		19,745	$0.849	Wildcats		Template:College color boxes
Oklahoma State University	Stillwater, Oklahoma	1890		26,043	$1.482 (system-wide)	Cowboys & Cowgirls		Template:College color boxes
Texas Christian University	Fort Worth, Texas	1873	Private (DOC)	12,785	$2.676	Horned Frogs	2012	Template:College color boxes
Texas Tech University	Lubbock, Texas	1923	Public	40,773	$2.904 (system-wide)	Red Raiders	1996	Template:College color boxes
University of Utah	Salt Lake City, Utah	1850		35,260	$1.860	Utes	2024	Template:College color boxes
West Virginia University	Morgantown, West Virginia	1867		24,200	$0.865	Mountaineers	2012	Template:College color boxes

Notes

Affiliate members

Institution	City	State	Founded	Type	Enrollment (fall 2023)	Nickname	JoinedTemplate:Efn	Colors	Big 12 sport(s)	Primary conference
United States Air Force Academy	USAF AcademyTemplate:Efn	Colorado	1954	Military	4,124	Falcons	2015	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	Mountain West
Boise State University	Boise	Idaho	1932	Public	26,670	Broncos	2025	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	Mountain West (Pac-12 in 2026)
California Baptist University	Riverside	California	1950	Private	11,407	Lancers	2022	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	WAC (Big West in 2026)
University of Denver	Denver	Colorado	1864		13,387	Pioneers	2015	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	Summit (WCC in 2026)
University of Florida	Gainesville	Florida	1853	Public	54,814	Gators	2024	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	SEC
Florida State University	Tallahassee	Florida	1851		43,234	Seminoles	2025	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	ACC
California State University, Fresno	Fresno	California	1911		23,986	Bulldogs	2019	Template:College color boxes	Equestrian	Mountain West (Pac-12 in 2026)
University of Missouri	Columbia	Missouri	1839		31,013	Tigers	2021Template:Efn	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	SEC
Template:Sort	Greeley	Colorado	1889		9,067	Bears	2015	Template:College color boxes		Big Sky
University of Northern Iowa	Cedar Falls	Iowa	1876		9,013	Panthers	2017	Template:College color boxes		Missouri Valley
North Dakota State University	Fargo	North Dakota	1890		11,952	Bison	2015	Template:College color boxes		Summit
University of Oklahoma	Norman	Oklahoma	1890		29,145	Sooners	2024Template:Efn	Template:College color boxes		SEC
Old Dominion University	Norfolk	Virginia	1930		22,541	Monarchs	2024Template:Efn	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	Sun Belt
San Diego State University	San Diego	California	1897		39,241	Aztecs	2024	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	Mountain West (Pac-12 in 2026)
University of South Carolina	Columbia	South Carolina	1801		36,579	Gamecocks	2025	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	SEC
South Dakota State University	Brookings	South Dakota	1881		11,498	Jackrabbits	2015	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	Summit
University of Tulsa	Tulsa	Oklahoma	1894	Private	3,559	Golden Hurricane	2024	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	American
University of California, Davis	Davis	California	1908	Public	39,707	Aggies	2024	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	Big West (Mountain West in 2026)
Utah Valley University	Orem	Utah	1941		44,651	Wolverines	2015	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	WAC (Big West in 2026)
University of Wyoming	Laramie	Wyoming	1886		10,913	Cowboys	2015	Template:College color boxes		Mountain West

Notes

• On July 29, 2015, the Big 12 announced it would add the six former members of the Western Wrestling Conference—Air Force, Northern Colorado, North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Utah Valley, and Wyoming—as affiliate members for wrestling, plus Denver as an affiliate member for women's gymnastics, all effective with the 2015–16 academic year.
• On July 5, 2017, the Big 12 added Fresno State and Northern Iowa as wrestling affiliates.
• On May 2, 2019, the Big 12 added Fresno State as an equestrian affiliate. Fresno State would drop wrestling in 2021, but remains an equestrian affiliate.
• In 2021, the Big 12 added former full member Missouri as a wrestling affiliate.

Former full members

Institution	City	State	Founded	Type	Nickname	JoinedTemplate:Efn	LeftTemplate:Efn	Colors	Current conference
University of Missouri	Columbia	Missouri	1839	Public	Tigers	1996	2012Template:Efn	Template:College color boxes	SEC
University of Nebraska–Lincoln	Lincoln	Nebraska	1869	Public	Cornhuskers	1996	2011	Template:College color boxes	Big Ten
University of Oklahoma	Norman	Oklahoma	1890	Public	Sooners	1996	2024Template:Efn	Template:College color boxes	SEC
University of Texas at Austin	Austin	Texas	1883	Public	Longhorns	1996	2024	Template:College color boxes	SEC
Texas A&M University	College Station	Texas	1876	Public	Aggies	1996	2012	Template:College color boxes	SEC

Notes

Former affiliate members

Institution	City	State	Founded	Type	Nickname	JoinedTemplate:Efn	LeftTemplate:Efn	Colors	Big 12 sport(s)	Current primary conference	Current conference in former Big 12 sport(s)Template:Efn
University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa	Alabama	1831	Public	Crimson Tide	2014	2024	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	SEC
California State University, Fresno	Fresno	California	1911		Bulldogs	2017	2021Template:Efn	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	Mountain West (Pac-12 in 2026)	Template:SortTemplate:Efn
University of Tennessee	Knoxville	Tennessee	1794		Volunteers	2014	2024	Template:College color boxes	Template:Sortname	SEC

Notes

Membership timeline

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Other Conference
Other Conference
Affiliate member (other sport)
Founding members from Big Eight Conference
Founding members from Southwest Conference
Subsequent members from Southwest Conference
Pac-12 Conference

Earlier membership timelines

Founding members of the Big 12 from the Big Eight:

• Colorado
• Iowa State
• Kansas
• Kansas State
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Oklahoma
• Oklahoma State

Founding members of the Big 12 from the Southwest Conference:

• Baylor
• Texas
• Texas A&M
• Texas Tech

Current members with the longest continuous association with the Big Eight Conference / Southwest Conference / Big 12 Conference.

Institution	Started Current Association In	Continuous Years	Note
Kansas	1907	118
Iowa State	1908	117
Kansas State	1913	112
Baylor	1915	110
Texas Tech	1956	69
Oklahoma State	1958	67	Previously: 10 years in the Southwest Conference (1914–1924); 3 years in the MVIAA (1924–1927)
TCU	2012	13	Previously: 73 years in the Southwest Conference (1923–1996)
West Virginia	2012	13
BYU	2023	2
UCF	2023	2
Cincinnati	2023	2
Houston	2023	2	Previously: 20 years in the Southwest Conference (1976–1996)
Arizona	2024	1
Arizona State	2024	1
Utah	2024	1
Colorado	2024	1	Previously: 49 years in the Big Eight Conference (1947–1996) and 15 years in the Big 12 Conference (1996–2011)

Sports

The Big 12 Conference sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 15 women's NCAA sanctioned sports.

Teams in Big 12 Conference competition

Sport	Men's	Women's
Baseball	14	–
Basketball	16	16
Beach volleyball	–	6
Cross country	13	16
Equestrian	–	4
Football	16	–
Golf	16	14
Gymnastics	–	7
Lacrosse	–	6
Rowing	–	6
Soccer	–	16
Softball	–	11
Swimming & Diving	7	10
Tennis	9	16
Track and Field (Indoor)	13	16
Track and Field (Outdoor)	13	16
Volleyball	–	15
Wrestling	14	–

Current champions

Source:

Season	Sport	Men's champion	Women's champion
Fall 2025	Cross Country	Oklahoma State	BYU
	Football		–
	Soccer	–	BYU
	Volleyball	–
Winter 2025–26	Basketball
	Equestrian	–
	Gymnastics	–
	Indoor Track & Field
	Swimming & Diving
	Wrestling		–
Spring 2026	Baseball		–
	Beach Volleyball	–
	Lacrosse	–
	Golf
	Outdoor Track & Field
	Rowing	–
	Softball	–
	Tennis

Men's sponsored sports by university

Below are the men's sports sponsored by each member institution.

The only men's sports with full participation by the entire conference are basketball, football, and golf. Swimming and diving has the lowest participation with only seven universities fielding a team.

The Big 12 fields 14 teams for wrestling. Before the conference's 2023 expansion, it had the most competing schools of any Big 12 sport, with 13 members at that time. The 2022–23 and 2024–25 wrestling lineups both included only 4 full conference members; all remaining wrestling schools were affiliate members (listed as a footnote at the bottom of the table).

University	Baseball	Basketball	Cross Country	Football	Golf	Swimming & Diving	Tennis	Track & Field Indoor	Track & Field Outdoor	Wrestling	Total Big 12 Sports
Arizona	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	9
Arizona State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Baylor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	8
BYU	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	9
Cincinnati	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	8
Colorado	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	6
Houston	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	7
Iowa State	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	7
Kansas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	7
Kansas State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	7
Oklahoma State	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
TCU	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	9
Texas Tech	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	8
UCF	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	5
Utah	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	6
West Virginia	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	6
Current totals	14	16	13	16	16	7	9	13	13	4+10Template:Efn

Men's (and Coed – see Rifle) varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 universities:

Schools Participating in Men's Non-Sponsored Sports

University	Ice Hockey	Lacrosse	RifleTemplate:Efn	Skiing	Soccer	Volleyball
Arizona State	NCHC	No	No	No	No	No
BYU	No	No	No	No	No	MPSF
Colorado	No	No	No	RMISA	No	No
TCU	No	No	PRC	No	No	No
UCF	No	No	No	No	SBC	No
Utah	No	ASUN	No	RMISA	No	No
West Virginia	No	No	GARC	No	SBC	No

Women's sponsored sports by university

Below are the women's sports sponsored by each member institution.

The only women's sports with full participation by the entire conference are basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, indoor track and outdoor track. Oklahoma State is the only member of the Big 12, or of any power conference, that does not sponsor volleyball. Only Utah and West Virginia do not sponsor golf.

Equestrian (3 full members, 1 affiliate) has the lowest participation, with 4 total members. Beach volleyball (3 full members, 3 affiliates), lacrosse (3 full members, 3 affiliates) and rowing (4 full members, 2 affiliates) follow with 6 total members. The affiliate members are listed as footnotes at the bottom of the table, beneath their respective sport.

Full Members

University	Basketball	Beach Volleyball	Cross Country	Equestrian	Golf	Gymnastics	Lacrosse	Rowing	Soccer	Softball	Swimming & Diving	Tennis	Track & Field Indoor	Track & Field Outdoor	Volleyball	Total Big 12 Sports
Arizona	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Arizona State	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	13
Baylor	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
BYU	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Cincinnati	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Colorado	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Houston	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Iowa State	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Kansas	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Kansas State	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
Oklahoma State	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	9
TCU	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	11
Texas Tech	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9
UCF	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Utah	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
West Virginia	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10
Current totals	16	3+3Template:Efn	16	3+1Template:Efn	14	6+1Template:Efn	3+3Template:Efn	4+2Template:Efn	16	11	10	16	16	16	15

Women's (and co-educational – see Rifle) varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 universities:

Schools Participating in Women's Non-Sponsored Sports

University	Acrobatics & tumblingTemplate:Efn	RifleTemplate:Efn	Skiing	TriathlonTemplate:Efn	Water Polo
Arizona	No	No	No	Yes	No
Arizona State	No	No	No	Yes	MPSF
Baylor	NCATA	No	No	No	No
Colorado	No	No	RMISA	No	No
TCU	No	PRC	No	Yes	No
Utah	No	No	RMISA	No	No
West Virginia	No	GARC	No	No	No

• In addition to the above, UCF lists its coeducational cheerleading and all-female dance teams as varsity teams on its official athletic website.

History

The Big 12 Conference was founded in February 1994. All eight members of the former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference (Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor and Texas Tech) to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996.

The Big 12 does not claim the Big Eight's history as its own, even though it was essentially the Big Eight plus four of the Texas universities.

The Big 12 began athletic play in fall 1996, with the Texas Tech vs. Kansas State football game being the first-ever sports event staged by the conference.

From its formation until 2011, its 12 members competed in two divisions in most sports. The two Oklahoma universities and the four Texas universities formed the South Division, while the other six universities of the former Big Eight formed the North Division.

Between 2011 and 2012 four charter members left the conference:

• Colorado
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• Texas A&M

In 2012, two universities joined the conference:

• TCU
• West Virginia

On July 26, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas notified the Big 12 Conference that the two universities did not wish to extend their grant of television rights beyond the 2024–25 athletic year. On July 27, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas sent a joint letter to the Southeastern Conference requesting an invitation for membership beginning July 1, 2025. On July 29, 2021, the 14 presidents and chancellors of SEC member universities voted unanimously to invite Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC. The following day, the Texas Board of Regents and Oklahoma Board of Regents each accepted the invitation to join the SEC from July 1, 2025.

On September 10, 2021, the Big 12 announced that invitations had been extended to and accepted by BYU (a football independent and member of the non-football West Coast Conference) and three members of the American Athletic Conference in Cincinnati, UCF, and Houston. These moves, combined with the impending departure of Oklahoma and Texas, would once again increase the Big 12's membership to twelve schools. All four schools began competing in Big 12 athletics beginning in summer of 2023. BYU had initially announced that it would join in 2023, and Houston indicated it could do so as well. On June 10, 2022, The American and its three departing members announced a buyout agreement that allowed those schools to join the Big 12 in 2023.

On February 9, 2023, Oklahoma and Texas announced they had reached a settlement with the conference that allowed them to join the SEC on July 1, 2024.

On July 27, 2023, Colorado, a former member of the Big 12, announced it would rejoin the conference from the Pac-12 beginning in the 2024–25 academic year. The following week, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah announced they would leave the Pac-12 for the Big 12, also effective for the 2024–25 academic year.

Academics

All Big 12 members are doctorate-granting universities. All members except TCU are classified by the American Council on Education (ACE) as "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research spending and doctorate production". TCU is in ACE's second-tier classification of "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research spending and doctorate production".

Institution	Academics		Admissions		Research			U.S. News & World Report rankings
	Graduation rate (6-yr – 2023)	Retention rate (Fall 2022)	Admit rate (Fall 2023)	Yield rate (Fall 2023)	AAU member	Earned doctorates (AY2023)	Expenditures (millions – FY2023)	National (2024)	Global (2024)
University of Arizona	66%	86%	86%	19%	Yes	445	$955.4	127 (tie)	115
Arizona State University	68%	85%	90%	23%	Yes	510	$903.8	117 (tie)	179 (tie)
Baylor University	80%	90%	51%	16%	No	102	$82.1	88 (tie)	425 (tie)
Brigham Young University	82%	90%	69%	80%	No	107	$137.7	110 (tie)	779 (tie)
University of Cincinnati	72%	86%	88%	24%	No	269	$698.6	158 (tie)	210 (tie)
University of Colorado Boulder	75%	88%	83%	16%	Yes	409	$651.9	97 (tie)	98 (tie)
University of Houston	65%	85%	70%	27%	No	316	$231.9	132 (tie)	421 (tie)
Iowa State University	75%	86%	89%	29%	No	401	$420.8	117 (tie)	344 (tie)
University of Kansas	69%	85%	88%	31%	Yes	317	$466.2	143 (tie)	332 (tie)
Kansas State University	70%	86%	79%	30%	No	195	$218.0	158 (tie)	616
Oklahoma State University	66%	83%	71%	34%	No	227	$226.5	198 (tie)	694 (tie)
Texas Christian University	86%	92%	43%	28%	No	37	$24.1	97 (tie)	Template:Nts (tie)
Texas Tech University	67%	86%	71%	30%	No	417	$240.1	198 (tie)	601 (tie)
University of Central Florida	75%	93%	40%	34%	No	304	$247.3	117 (tie)	432 (tie)
University of Utah	64%	85%	87%	28%	Yes	363	$723.7	151 (tie)	150 (tie)
West Virginia University	61%	79%	86%	26%	No	218	$247.2	222 (tie)	606 (tie)

Distinctive elements

Population base and markets

The largest media markets represented by the Big 12 are, ranked nationally:

• Dallas-Fort Worth (5th)
• Houston (6th)
• Phoenix (11th)
• Orlando (16th)
• Denver (17th)
• Salt Lake City (27th)
• San Antonio (31st)
• Kansas City (34th)
• Cincinnati (37th)
• Oklahoma City (47th)
• Tulsa (62nd)
• Tucson (65th)
• Des Moines (67th)
• Wichita (72nd)

Although West Virginia University is based out of Morgantown, West Virginia (officially part of the Pittsburgh (26th) media market), the TV market encompasses the majority of West Virginia's TV viewership and also reaches well into Western Pennsylvania.

Kansas State University is in Manhattan, Kansas, which is part of the Topeka, Kansas media market, but it is close to the Wichita market, which encompasses two-thirds of the state (stretching to the border with Colorado), including the cities of Dodge City, Garden City, Hutchinson and Salina.

While the University of Kansas is in Lawrence, Kansas, it is officially part of the Kansas City television market, increasing the base into western Missouri.

State	Population	Universities
Arizona	7,431,344	* University of Arizona * Arizona State University
Colorado	5,773,714	* University of Colorado Boulder
Florida	22,610,726	* University of Central Florida
Iowa	3,207,004	* Iowa State University
Kansas	2,940,546	* University of Kansas * Kansas State University
Ohio	11,785,935	* University of Cincinnati
Oklahoma	4,053,824	* Oklahoma State University
Texas	30,503,301	* Baylor University * University of Houston * Texas Christian University * Texas Tech University
Utah	3,417,734	* Brigham Young University * University of Utah
West Virginia	1,770,071	* West Virginia University
Total	93,494,199

Grant of Rights

Member universities granted their first and second tier sports media rights to the conference for the length of their current TV deals. The Grant of Rights (GOR) deal with the leagues' TV contracts ensures that "if a Big 12 school leaves for another league in the next 13 years, that school's media rights, including revenue, would remain with the Big 12 and not its new conference".

GOR is seen by league members as a "foundation of stability" and allowed the Big 12 to be "positioned with one of the best media rights arrangements in collegiate sports, providing the conference and its members unprecedented revenue growth, and sports programming over two networks." All members agreed to the GOR and later agreed to extend the initial 6-year deal to 13 years to correspond to the length of their TV contracts.

Prior to this agreement, the Big Ten and Pac-12 also had similar GOR agreements. The Big 12 subsequently assisted the ACC in drafting its GOR agreement. Three of the four major conferences now have such agreements, with the SEC the only exception.

Tier 3 events

Historically, the Big 12 allowed members to monetize TV rights for everything not broadcast on national or regional TV channels (tier 3 rights). Currently, the conference's tier 3 broadcast rights are bundled as part of the television deal extension starting in the 2025-26 school year, with all of the Big 12's tier 3 rights held by ESPN. As such, schools no longer need to find their own broadcast partners for these events; they are all handled by ESPN. These events are primarily broadcast on Big 12 Now/ESPN+, but are also broadcast on other ESPN channels as determined by ESPN.

Business partnerships and innovation

The Big 12 has a sponsorship rights partnership with Learfield IMG College. The Big 12 announced on September 9, 2022, that it appointed WME Sports and IMG Media, Endeavor companies, to facilitate its global content and commercial strategy. Commissioner Brett Yormark stated "We have aligned with a best-in-class team to build a best-in-class business strategy for the Conference". November 14, 2022 Big 12 formed a comprehensive business advisor board composed of over three dozen entrepreneurial icons and respective industry leaders. From the likes of Monte Lipman the Founder/CEO Republic Records, Steve Stoute Founder/CEO UnitedMasters & Translation, Mark Shapiro President of Endeavor, Gary Vaynerchuk’s VaynerMedia, singer Garth Brooks, NBA legend Jason Kidd, Keith Sheldon President of Entertainment for Hard Rock Cafe International, and Ross Levinsohn Chairman and CEO - The Arena Group & Sports Illustrated.

The Big 12 partnered with creative agency Translation to help build a more contemporary audience and brand. Soon after Big 12 Conference made a deal with A Bathing Ape (BAPE) for Championship games. The Conference and BAPE worked together to create limited-edition clothing and a camouflaged Big 12 logo throughout the stadium, arena, and uniforms.

The Big 12 has 11 official corporate partners: Allstate, Children’s Health, Dr Pepper, Gatorade, Grand Caliber, Old Trapper, On Location, Phillips 66, Sonic Hard Seltzer, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Tickets For Less. There are dozens of other companies engaged as sponsors of the conference.

Conference Pro Day

On March 15, 2023, before the NFL draft, the Big 12 announced the first of its kind across all college conferences, being a conference-wide Pro Day. Instead of schools hosting separate pro days for their football players, there will be only one conference-wide scouting event before the 2024 NFL draft. The event will be held at the Dallas Cowboys training complex, Ford Center at The Star. What essentially would be a conference version of the NFL Combine, the Pro Day would be televised on NFL Network.

Hoops in the Park

In March, the Big 12 Conference announced a partnership with the legendary Rucker Park for a community engagement event. In June the event was officially announced as "Big 12 Hoops in the Park", to host men's and women's summer exhibition games. Throughout the event, the Big 12 is also preparing a number of entertainment activities and community engagements. The activities include youth clinics, meet-and-greets, live music, and food.

Mexico

Early June 2023, the "Big 12 Mexico" initiative was announced, which includes men's and women's soccer, baseball, basketball, and football games and an international media rights strategy. In July 2024, the Big 12 announced that it would narrow it's focus in Mexico to looking at games for baseball and women's soccer.

Conference annual revenue distribution

Year	Total distributed	Annual increase	Average per universitya
1997	$53.6 million	–	$4.5 million
1998	$58 million	8.2%	$4.8 million
1999	$64 million	10.3%	$5.3 million
2000	$72 million	12.5%	$6.0 million
2001	$78 million	8.3%	$6.5 million
2002	$83.5 million	7.1%	$7.0 million
2003	$89 million	6.6%	$7.4 million
2004	$101 million	13.5%	$8.4 million
2005	$105.6 million	4.6%	$8.8 million
2006	$103.1 million	−2.4%	$8.6 million
2007	$106 million	2.8%	$8.8 million
2008	$113.5 million	7.1%	$9.5 million
2009	$130 million	14.5%	$10.8 million
2010	$139 million	6.9%	$11.6 million
2011	$145 million	4.3%	$12.1 million
2012	$187 million	29.0%	$18.7 million
2013	$198 million	5.9%	$19.8 million
2014	$212 million	7.1%	$21.2 million
2015	$252 million	18.9%	$25.2 million
2016	$304 million	20.6%	$30.4 million
2017	$348 million	14.5%	$34.8 million
2018	$364 million	4.9%	$36.5 million
2019	$388 million	6.3%	$38.8 million
2020	$377 million	-2.8%	$37.7 million
2021	$345 million	-8.5%	$34.5 million
2022	$426 million	23.5%	$42.6 million
2023	$470 million	10.3%	$39.8 million† $18.0 million‡
2024	$558 million	18.7%	$40.2 million† $19.0 million‡
a Twelve Big 12 members received disbursements each year from 1997 to 2011; ten each year afterwards. Individual universities' disbursement varied annually according to bylaw rules and entrance or withdrawal agreements. †legacy 10-member institutions and adds from Pac-12. ‡UCF, BYU, UC & UH.

Conference revenue comes from media rights contracts, bowl games, the NCAA, merchandise, licensing, and conference-hosted sporting events.

Most of the Big 12's revenue comes from its media rights contracts. In 2012, the Big 12 announced a media rights agreement with Fox and ESPN, replacing an ABC/ESPN deal, estimated to be worth $2.6 billion through the 2025 expiration. The two deals pushed the conference per-university payout to approximately $20 million per year, while separating third-tier media rights into separate deals for each university; such contracts secured an additional $6 million to $20 million per university annually. In 2022, the conference renewed its media rights with ESPN and Fox Sports for six seasons starting in 2025–26, with an estimated US$380 million average annual fee, equating to about $31.7 million per school. The contract included a pro-rata clause that increased the conference's fee proportionately if Power conference schools were added. Subsequently, with the additions of Arizona, Arizona St, Colorado, and Utah, the value of the contract is set to increase by about $125 million per year from $380 million to $505 million.

Significant additional revenue is generated from postseason play by Big 12 teams, including the college football playoff, football bowl games, and NCAA basketball tournament revenue. For the 2023-24 football season, the Big 12 received $79.4 million for participating in the college football playoff. Bowl game revenues vary yearly with team selections; the 2024 Alamo Bowl between BYU, representing the Big 12, and Colorado, who took a Pac-12's spot, paid the conference $9.8 million. Considered perhaps the best basketball conference in the country, the Big 12 performs well in the NCAA basketball tournament. Conference teams earned 15 units (worth $30 million) in the 2024 tournament, and 20 units (worth $40 million) in the 2025 tournament.

In the era of Name-Image-Likeness (NIL) payments to student-athletes and revenue sharing directly from school athletic department budgets, the Big 12 has also maximized creative sponsorships. In July 2025, the conference announced a sponsorship deal with PayPal worth about $100 million over 3 years, roughly $2 million per school per year. Under the agreement, PayPal and Venmo will be the official partner of the Big 12 Conference for payments to student athletes and will be promoted across Big 12 football, basketball, and Olympic sports championships for both men and women. Phillips 66 is the title sponsor for Big 12 championship events, and has been for most of the conference's existence, though the contract amount has not been publicly disclosed.

Once the Big 12's new media rights deal kicks in, conference annual distributions to each school are expected to be $50 million or more. All conference members will receive a full share of revenue from the conference's media rights contracts, though payments to individual schools could differ based on postseason play.

Athletic department revenue by school

Total revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights and licensing, student fees, school funds and all other sources including TV income, camp income, concessions, and novelties.

Total expenses includes coach and staff salaries, scholarships, buildings and grounds, maintenance, utilities and rental fees, recruiting, team travel, equipment and uniforms, conference dues, and insurance.

The following table shows institutional reporting to the United States Department of Education as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2023–24 academic year.

Institution	2023–24 Grand Total Revenues	2023–24 Grand Total Expenses
University of Kansas	$215,031,889	$156,040,840
Baylor University	$148,063,513	$148,063,513
University of Colorado Boulder	$146,567,503	$138,325,220
Texas Christian University	$141,889,741	$141,889,741
University of Arizona	$138,959,027	$138,959,027
Oklahoma State University	$131,559,155	$130,346,189
Brigham Young University	$129,891,998	$115,666,650
Arizona State University	$126,892,086	$126,892,086
Texas Tech University	$115,268,119	$114,344,886
University of Utah	$111,749,094	$111,749,094
Kansas State University	$106,312,406	$87,502,697
West Virginia University	$106,013,297	$106,013,297
Iowa State University	$100,543,747	$100,471,526
University of Houston	$98,914,486	$98,914,486
University of Central Florida	$93,417,587	$90,055,820
University of Cincinnati	$89,597,392	$89,597,392

The following table shows Big 12 Conference distributions during the fiscal year beginning 07-01-2022 ending 06-30-2023 (submission May 6, 2024) as reported by ProPublica using Schedule A of the Big 12 Conference tax filings

Institution	2022–23 Distribution
Texas Christian University	$48,258,005
University of Oklahoma Left Big 12 for SEC July 1, 2024	$45,195,567
Kansas State University	$45,038,935
University of Texas at Austin Left Big 12 for SEC July 1, 2024	$44,711,453
University of Kansas	$44,104,036
Oklahoma State University	$43,821,197
Texas Tech University	$43,663,496
Baylor University	$43,072,005
Iowa State University	$42,190,473
West Virginia University	$41,984,886
Average for 10 Schools	$44,204,005

Facilities

Template:CollegePrimaryHeader

style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Arizona	Casino Del Sol Stadium	Template:Nts	McKale Center	Template:Nts	Hi Corbett Field	Template:Nts	Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Template:CollegeSecondaryColorLink	Mountain America Stadium	Template:Nts	Desert Financial Arena	Template:Nts	Phoenix Municipal Stadium	Template:Nts	Alberta B. Farrington Softball Stadium	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Template:CollegeSecondaryColorLink	McLane Stadium	Template:Nts	Foster Pavilion	Template:Nts	Baylor Ballpark	Template:Nts	Getterman Stadium	Template:Nts
style="Template:NCAA color cell"| BYU	LaVell Edwards Stadium	Template:Nts	Marriott Center	Template:Nts	Larry H. Miller Field	Template:Nts	Gail Miller Field	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Cincinnati	Nippert Stadium	Template:Nts	Fifth Third Arena	Template:Nts	UC Baseball Stadium	Template:Nts	colspan=2 rowspan=2 Template:Hidden sort keyTemplate:N/A
style="Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle"| Template:CollegePrimaryColorLink	Folsom Field	Template:Nts	CU Events Center	Template:Nts	colspan=2 Template:Hidden sort keyTemplate:N/A
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Houston	TDECU StadiumTemplate:Efn	Template:Nts	Fertitta Center	Template:Nts	Darryl & Lori Schroeder Park	Template:Nts	Cougar Softball Stadium	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Template:CollegeSecondaryColorLink	Jack Trice Stadium	Template:Nts	Hilton Coliseum	Template:Nts	colspan=2 Template:Hidden sort keyTemplate:N/ATemplate:Efn	Cyclone Sports Complex	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Kansas	David Booth Kansas Memorial StadiumTemplate:Efn	Template:Nts	Allen Fieldhouse	Template:Nts	Hoglund Ballpark	Template:Nts	Arrocha Ballpark	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Template:CollegeSecondaryColorLink	Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium	Template:Nts	Bramlage Coliseum	Template:Nts	Tointon Family Stadium	Template:Nts	colspan=2 Template:Hidden sort keyTemplate:N/A
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Template:CollegeSecondaryColorLink	Boone Pickens Stadium	Template:Nts	Gallagher-Iba Arena	Template:Nts	O'Brate Stadium	Template:NtsTemplate:Efn	Cowgirl Stadium	Template:Nts
style="Template:NCAA color cell"| TCU	Amon G. Carter Stadium	Template:Nts	Schollmaier Arena	6,700	Lupton Stadium	Template:Nts	colspan=2 Template:Hidden sort keyTemplate:N/A
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Texas Tech	Jones AT&T Stadium	Template:Nts	United Supermarkets Arena	Template:Nts	Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park	Template:Nts	Rocky Johnson Field	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Template:CollegeSecondaryColorLink	Acrisure Bounce House	Template:Nts	Addition Financial Arena	Template:Nts	John Euliano Park	Template:Nts	UCF Softball Complex	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Utah	Rice-Eccles Stadium	Template:Nts	Jon M. Huntsman Center	Template:Nts	America First BallparkTemplate:Efn	Template:NtsTemplate:Efn	Dumke Family Softball Stadium	Template:Nts
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle"| Template:CollegeSecondaryColorLink	Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium	Template:Nts	WVU Coliseum	Template:Nts	Monongalia County Ballpark	Template:Nts	colspan=2 Template:Hidden sort keyTemplate:N/A

Key personnel

School	Athletic Director	Football Coach	Salary	Men's basketball coach	Salary	Women's basketball coach	Baseball coach	Softball coach
Arizona	Desiree Reed-Francois	Brent Brennan	$3,400,000	Tommy Lloyd	$5,250,000	Becky Burke	Chip Hale	Caitlin Lowe
Arizona State	Graham Rossini	Kenny Dillingham	$7,442,000	Bobby Hurley	$3,536,000	Molly Miller	Willie Bloomquist	Megan Bartlett
Baylor	Mack Rhoades	Dave Aranda	$4,702,570	Scott Drew	$5,410,061	Nicki Collen	Mitch Thompson	Glenn Moore
BYU	Brian Santiago	Kalani Sitake	NA†	Kevin Young	NA†	Lee Cummard	Trent Pratt	Gordon Eakin
Cincinnati	John Cunningham	Scott Satterfield	$3,700,000	Wes Miller	$2,600,000	Katrina Merriweather	Jordan Bischel	–
Colorado	Rick George	Deion Sanders	$8,975,000	Tad Boyle	$2,503,500	JR Payne	–	–
Houston	Eddie Nuñez	Willie Fritz	$4,500,000	Kelvin Sampson	$4,604,000	Matthew Mitchell	Todd Whitting	Kristin Vesely
Iowa State	Jamie Pollard	Matt Campbell	$5,000,000	T. J. Otzelberger	$3,500,000	Bill Fennelly	–	Jamie Pinkerton
Kansas	Travis Goff	Lance Leipold	$6,650,000	Bill Self	$8,803,800	Brandon Schneider	Dan Fitzgerald	Jennifer McFalls
Kansas State	Gene Taylor	Chris Klieman	$5,250,000	Jerome Tang	$3,700,000	Jeff Mittie	Pete Hughes	–
Oklahoma State	Chad Weiberg	Vacant	$TBD	Steve Lutz	$2,400,000	Jacie Hoyt	Josh Holliday	Kenny Gajewski
TCU	Mike Buddie	Sonny Dykes	$7,036,013	Jamie Dixon	NA†	Mark Campbell	Kirk Saarloos	–
Texas Tech	Kirby Hocutt	Joey McGuire	$4,554,960	Grant McCasland	$3,900,000	Krista Gerlich	Tim Tadlock	Craig Snider
UCF	Terry Mohajir	Scott Frost	$3,858,333	Johnny Dawkins	$2,000,000	Sytia Messer	Rich Wallace	Cindy Ball-Malone
Utah	Mark Harlan	Kyle Whittingham	$6,925,000	Alex Jensen	$3,600,000	Lynne Roberts	Gary Henderson	Amy Hogue
West Virginia	Wren Baker	Rich Rodriguez	$3,600,000	Ross Hodge	$2,800,000	Mark Kellogg	Randy Mazey	–

Notes

Sources:
†Private institution not required to release coaching salaries
•Salaries based on 2025–2026 academic year

Championships

National team titles by institution

The national championships listed below are as of the 2024−25 season. Football, Helms, pre-NCAA competition and overall equestrian titles are included in the total, but excluded from the column listing NCAA and AIAW titles.

Big 12 National Championships
University	Total Titles	Titles as a member of the Big 12	NCAA titles	Men's	Women's	Co-ed†	AIAW titlesTemplate:Double dagger	Notes
Oklahoma State	56	13	54	54	0	0	0	1 claimed football and equestrian title
Arizona State	43	0	25	12	13	0	18
Colorado	30	9	28	16	3	9	1	1 claimed football title
Utah	28	0	26	2	9	15	2
West Virginia	24	4	21	1	0	20	0	3 pre-NCAA rifle titles
Arizona	21	0	19	7	12	0	2
Iowa State	18	0	13	13	0	0	5
Houston	17	0	17	17	0	0	0
BYU	14	2	13	7	6	0	0	1 claimed football title
Kansas	14	3	12	11	1	0	0	2 Helms basketball titles
TCU	9	3	7	1	2	4	0	2 claimed football titles
Baylor	5	5	5	2	3	0	0
Texas Tech	3	2	3	2	1	0	0
Cincinnati	2	0	2	2	0	0	0
UCF	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1 claimed football title
Kansas State	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	280	38	240	146	48	46	29	–

† Co-ed sports include fencing (since 1990), rifle, and skiing (since 1983). Team fencing championships before 1990 and team skiing championships before 1983 were awarded as men's or women's championships and are counted here as such.
Template:Double dagger Includes titles won under the DGWS, predecessor of the AIAW.

Most recent NCAA championship

Legend for Most Recent National Title table by School

Indicator	Meaning
*	Most recent NCAA championship

University	Year	Sport
Arizona	2018	Women's Golf
Arizona State	2024	Men’s Swimming & Dive
Baylor	2021	Men's Basketball
BYU	2024	Men's cross country
Cincinnati	1962	Men's Basketball
Colorado	2024	Skiing
Houston	1985	Men's Golf
Iowa State	1994	Men's Cross Country
Kansas	2022	Men's Basketball
Kansas State	–	–
Oklahoma State	2025	Men's Golf
TCU	2025	Beach Volleyball
Texas Tech	2024	Men's Indoor Track & Field
UCF	–	–
Utah	2025	Skiing
West Virginia*	2025	Rifle

National championships

The following is a list of all NCAA, equestrian, and college football championships won by teams that were representing the Big 12 Conference in NCAA-recognized sports at the time of their championship. The most recent Big 12 team to win a national title is Oklahoma State men's golf in 2025. Only two years of the Big 12's existence has the conference not won at least one team National Title, 2007 and 2020. However, in 2020 multiple National Championships were not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

One former member of the conference did not win a National Championship while a member of the Big 12, Missouri. Original members Kansas State and Iowa State have not won a championship while representing the Big 12. The only national championships won by 2012 arrival West Virginia since joining the Big 12 have been in rifle, a sport that the conference has never sponsored. Of the 2023 arrivals, Houston, UCF, and Cincinnati have not won a championship in the Big 12, but BYU has won in women’s and men’s cross country.

Men's swimming has the most overall championships with 10, while men's golf has the most different schools win a championship with 4.

Source:

Fall Sports

Men's Sports

Cross Country (8)
Year	School
2001	Colorado
2004	Colorado
2006	Colorado
2009	Oklahoma State
2010	Oklahoma State
2012	Oklahoma State
2023	Oklahoma State
2024	BYU

Football
Year	School	Selector(s)
1997	Nebraska	USAT/ESPN
2000	Oklahoma	AP, FWAA, NFF, USAT/ESPN
2005	Texas	AP, FWAA, NFF, USAT

Women's Sports

Women's Cross Country (3)
Year	School
2000	Colorado
2004	Colorado
2024	BYU

Women's Volleyball (5)
2000	Nebraska
2005	Nebraska
2012	Texas
2022	Texas
2023	Texas

Winter Sports

Men's Sports

Men's Basketball (3)
Year	School
2008	Kansas
2021	Baylor
2022	Kansas

Men's Swimming (10)
Year	School
1996	Texas
2000	Texas
2001	Texas
2002	Texas
2010	Texas
2015	Texas
2016	Texas
2017	Texas
2018	Texas
2021	Texas

Men's Indoor Track (1)
Year	School
2024	Texas Tech

Wrestling (4)
Year	School
2003	Oklahoma State
2004	Oklahoma State
2005	Oklahoma State
2006	Oklahoma State

Women's Sports

Women's Basketball (4)
Year	School
2005	Baylor
2011	Texas A&M
2012	Baylor
2019	Baylor

Gymnastics (6)
Year	School
2014	Oklahoma
2016	Oklahoma
2017	Oklahoma
2019	Oklahoma
2022	Oklahoma
2023	Oklahoma

Women's Indoor Track & Field (3)
Year	School
1998	Texas
1999	Texas
2006	Texas

Spring Sports

Men's Sports

Baseball (2)
Year	School
2002	Texas
2005	Texas

Men's Golf (7)
Year	School
2000	Oklahoma State
2006	Oklahoma State
2009	Texas A&M
2012	Texas
2017	Oklahoma
2018	Oklahoma State
2022	Texas
2025	Oklahoma State

Men's Gymnastics (9)
Year	School
2002	Oklahoma
2003	Oklahoma
2005	Oklahoma
2006	Oklahoma
2008	Oklahoma
2015	Oklahoma
2016	Oklahoma
2017	Oklahoma
2018	Oklahoma

Men's Tennis (3)
Year	School
2004	Baylor
2019	Texas
2024	TCU

Outdoor Track & Field (4)
Year	School
2009	Texas A&M
2010	Texas A&M
2011	Texas A&M
2019	Texas Tech

Women's Sports

Beach Volleyball (1)
Year	School
2024	TCU

Women's Outdoor Track (8)
Year	School
1998	Texas
1999	Texas
2005	Texas
2009	Texas A&M
2010	Texas A&M
2011	Texas A&M
2013	Kansas
2023	Texas

Women's Rowing (3)
Year	School
2021	Texas
2022	Texas
2024	Texas

Softball (8)
Year	School
2000	Oklahoma
2013	Oklahoma
2016	Oklahoma
2017	Oklahoma
2021	Oklahoma
2022	Oklahoma
2023	Oklahoma
2024	Oklahoma

Women's Tennis (2)
Year	School
2021	Texas
2022	Texas

Women's Bowling (5)
Year	School
1999	Nebraska
2001	Nebraska
2004	Nebraska
2005	Nebraska
2009	Nebraska

Combined Sports

Equestrian (3)
Year	School
2002	Texas A&M (Overall)
2012	Texas A&M (Overall)
2022	Oklahoma State (Overall)

Rifle (7)
2013	West Virginia
2014	West Virginia
2015	West Virginia
2016	West Virginia
2017	West Virginia
2019	TCU
2024	TCU
2025	West Virginia

Other NCAA championships

The following are NCAA championships won by Big 12 members, but in sports not sponsored by the conference.

Combined Sports

Men's/Women's Skiing (6)
Year	School
1998	Colorado
1999	Colorado
2006	Colorado
2011	Colorado
2024	Colorado
2025	Utah

Conference champions

The Conference sponsors 23 sports, 10 men's and 13 women's.

In football, divisional titles were awarded based on regular-season conference results, with the teams with the best conference records from the North and South playing in the Big 12 Championship Game from 1996 to 2010. Baseball, basketball, softball, tennis and women's soccer titles are awarded in both regular-season and tournament play. Cross country, golf, gymnastics, swimming and diving, track and field, and wrestling titles are awarded during an annual meet of participating teams. The volleyball title is awarded based on regular-season play.

All-Time Big 12 Championships by University (through November 8, 2025)

University	Years	Regular Season	Postseason	Total
Arizona Wildcats	2024–present	0	3	3
Arizona State Sun Devils	2024–present	1	3	4
Baylor Bears	1996–present	48	41	89
BYU Cougars	2023–present	0	5	5
Cincinnati Bearcats	2023–present	0	0	0
Colorado Buffaloes	1996–2011, 2024–present	5	26	31
Houston Cougars	2023–present	2	1	3
Iowa State Cyclones	1996–present	4	27	31
Kansas Jayhawks	1996–present	25	20	45
Kansas State Wildcats	1996–present	11	7	18
Oklahoma State Cowboys	1996–present	16	88	104
TCU Horned Frogs	2012–present	16	10	26
Texas Tech Red Raiders	1996–present	16	23	39
UCF Knights	2023–present	1	1	2
Utah Utes	2024–present	1	1	2
West Virginia Mountaineers	2012–present	8	6	14

Football

The first football game in conference play was Texas Tech vs. Kansas State in 1996, won by Kansas State, 21–14.

From 1996 to 2010, Big 12 Conference teams played eight conference games a season. Each team faced all five opponents within its own division and three teams from the opposite division. Inter-divisional play was a "three-on, three-off" system, where teams would play three teams from the other division on a home-and-home basis for two seasons, and then play the other three foes from the opposite side for a two-year home-and-home.

This format came under considerable criticism, especially from Nebraska and Oklahoma, who were denied a yearly match between two of college football's most storied programs. The Nebraska–Oklahoma rivalry was one of the most intense in college football history. (Until 2006, the teams had never met in the Big 12 Championship.) Due to the departure of Nebraska and Colorado in 2011, the Big 12 eliminated the divisions (and championship game) and instituted a nine-game round-robin format. With the advent of the College Football Playoff committee looking at teams' strength of schedule for picking the four playoff teams, on December 8, 2015, the Big 12 announced an annual requirement for all Big 12 teams to schedule a non-conference game against a team from the four other Power Five conferences (plus Notre Dame). Per Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby: "Schedule strength is a key component in CFP Selection Committee deliberations. This move will strengthen the resumes for all Big 12 teams. Coupled with the nine-game full round robin Conference schedule our teams play, it will not only benefit the teams at the top of our standings each season, but will impact the overall strength of the Conference." The Big 12 has made it to the Playoffs 6 times from 2014 to 2023. Four Big 12 participants have made it to the playoff: Oklahoma in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019; Texas in 2023; TCU in 2022; and Arizona State in 2024.

Championship game

The Big 12 Championship Game was approved by all members except Nebraska. It was held each year, commencing with the first match in the 1996 season at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis. It pitted the division champions against each other after the regular season was completed.

Following the 2008 game, the event was moved to the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, being played there in 2009 and 2010. In 2010, the Sooners defeated the Cornhuskers 23–20.

After 2010, the game was moved to Arlington for 2011, 2012, and 2013. However, the decision became moot following the 2010 season because the league lacked sufficient members.

In April 2015, the ACC and the Big 12 developed new rules for the NCAA to deregulate conference championship games. The measure passed on January 14, 2016, allowing a conference with fewer than 12 teams to stage a championship game that does not count against the FBS limit of 12 regular-season games under either of the following circumstances:

• The game involves the top two teams following a full round-robin conference schedule.
• The game involves two divisional winners, each having played a full round-robin schedule in its division.

Under the first criterion, the Big 12 championship game resumed at the conclusion of the 2017 regular season, and is played during the first weekend of December, the time all other FBS conference championship games are played.

Bowl affiliations

The following were bowl games for the Big 12 for the 2022 season.Template:Update inline

Pick	Name	Location	Opposing conference
–	College Football Playoff	–	–
1	Sugar Bowl†	New Orleans, Louisiana	SEC
2	Alamo Bowl	San Antonio, Texas	Pac-12
3	Cheez-It Bowl	Orlando, Florida	ACC
4	Texas Bowl	Houston, Texas	SEC
5	Liberty Bowl	Memphis, Tennessee	SEC
6	Guaranteed Rate Bowl	Phoenix, Arizona	Big Ten
7‡	Armed Forces Bowl	Fort Worth, Texas	AAC/C-USA
7‡	First Responder Bowl	Dallas, Texas	AAC/ACC/C-USA
†The Big 12 champion will go to the Sugar Bowl unless selected for the College Football Playoff. In the event that the conference champion is selected for the playoff, the conference runner-up will go to the Sugar Bowl. In years in which the Sugar Bowl is a CFP semifinal, the Big 12 champion (runner-up if the champion is selected for the CFP) is slotted to the Cotton, Fiesta or Peach Bowls. ‡The seventh selection is a "flex pick."

Rivalries

The Big 12 is known for rivalries (primarily in football) that mostly predate the conference. The Kansas-Missouri rivalry was the longest running, the longest west of the Mississippi, and the second longest in college football, dating back to the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association before evolving into the Big Eight. It was played 119 times before Missouri left the Big 12. As of October 2012, the University of Kansas' athletic department had not accepted Missouri's invitations to play inter-conference rivalry games, putting the rivalry on hold. Sports clubs sponsored by the two universities continued to play each other. Kansas and Missouri renewed the rivalry in men's basketball starting in December 2021, and have announced that they will meet again in football in 2025.

The rivalry between TCU and Baylor, known as the Revivalry is also one of the longest running in college football, with the two universities having played each other — largely as Southwest Conference members — 120 times since 1899. Following the 2024 game, TCU leads the series 59–54–7.

After the conference's 2024 expansion, only four rivalries were "protected" (i.e., guaranteed of being played each season)—Arizona–Arizona State, Baylor–TCU, BYU–Utah, and Kansas–Kansas State. These are highlighted in bold in the table below.

Some of the football rivalries between Big 12 universities include:

Rivalry	Name	Trophy	Games played†	Began	Record
Arizona–Arizona State	Duel in the Desert	Territorial Cup	98	1899	Arizona 51–45–1
Baylor–Houston			30	1950	Baylor 15–14–1
Baylor–TCU	Bluebonnet Battle / Revivalry		120	1899	TCU 60–54–7
Baylor–Texas Tech			83	1929	Baylor 42–40–1
BYU–Utah	Holy War	Beehive Boot	103	1896	Utah 62–37–4
Cincinnati–UCF			11	2015	Cincinnati 6–5
Cincinnati–West Virginia			22	1921	West Virginia 18–3–1
Colorado–Kansas State			67	1912	Colorado 45–21–1
Colorado–Utah	Rumble in the Rockies		72	1903	Utah 36–33–3
Houston–Texas Tech			36	1951	Houston 18–17–1
Iowa State–Kansas State	Farmageddon		108	1917	Iowa State 55–50–4
Kansas–Kansas State	Sunflower Showdown	Governor's Cup	123	1902	Kansas 65–53–5
TCU–Texas Tech	West Texas Championship	The Saddle Trophy	67	1926	Texas Tech 33–31–3

Men's Basketball

As of the end of the 2023–2024 season, nine current Big 12 members are among the teams with the most wins and/or the highest win percentage in NCAA Division 1 men's basketball: Kansas (#2 in wins, #3 in percentage), Cincinnati (#12 wins, #19 percentage), Utah (#15 wins, #22 percentage), BYU (#17 wins, #31 percentage), Arizona (#19 wins, #10 percentage), West Virginia (#20 wins, #36 percentage), Houston (#37 percentage), Oklahoma State (#39 wins), and Kansas State (#42 wins). On the list of the most Final Four appearances, Kansas is #5 and Cincinnati, Houston, and Oklahoma State are all tied (with several other schools) at #11.

From 1996 to 2011, standings in conference play were not split among divisions, although the schedule was structured as if they were. Teams played a home-and-home against teams within their divisions and a single game against teams from the opposite division for a total of 16 conference games. After Nebraska and Colorado left, Big 12 play transitioned to an 18-game, double round robin schedule. When the conference temporarily expanded to 14 members for the 2023–24 season, the 18-game schedule remained, but the double round-robin was discontinued in favor of a new scheduling formula.

In 2024–25, the Big 12 played a 20-game schedule, but due to input from coaches the league will play an 18-game schedule in 2025-26.

Conference champions

Kansas has the most Big 12 titles, winning or sharing the regular-season title 20 times in the league's 25 seasons, including 13 straight from 2004–05 to 2016–17. The 2002 Jayhawks became the first, and so far only, team to complete an undefeated Big 12 regular season, going 16–0. Though rematches between Big 12 regular season co-champions have happened in that year's Big 12 tournament, none have met in the ensuing NCAA Tournament.

Season	Regular season champion	Tournament champion
1996–97	Kansas	Kansas
1997–98	Kansas (2)	Kansas (2)
1998–99	Texas	Kansas (3)
1999–00	Iowa State	Iowa State
2000–01	Iowa State (2)	Oklahoma
2001–02	Kansas (3)	Oklahoma (2)
2002–03	Kansas (4)	Oklahoma (3)
2003–04	Oklahoma State	Oklahoma State
2004–05	Oklahoma Kansas (5)	Oklahoma State (2)
2005–06	Texas (2) Kansas (6)	Kansas (4)
2006–07	Kansas (7)	Kansas (5)
2007–08	Texas (3) Kansas (8)	Kansas (6)
2008–09	Kansas (9)	Missouri
2009–10	Kansas (10)	Kansas (7)
2010–11	Kansas (11)	Kansas (8)
2011–12	Kansas (12)	Missouri (2)
2012–13	Kansas (13) Kansas State	Kansas (9)
2013–14	Kansas (14)	Iowa State (2)
2014–15	Kansas (15)	Iowa State (3)
2015–16	Kansas (16)	Kansas (10)
2016–17	Kansas (17)	Iowa State (4)
2017–18	Kansas [18]*	Kansas [11]*
2018–19	Kansas State (2) Texas Tech	Iowa State (5)
2019–20	Kansas (19 [18])	Canceled**
2020–21	Baylor	Texas
2021–22	Kansas (20 [19]) Baylor (2)	Kansas (12 [11])
2022–23	Kansas (21 [20])	Texas (2)
2023–24	Houston	Iowa State (6)
2024–25	Houston (2)	Houston

In 2004–05, Oklahoma won the Big 12 Tournament seeding tiebreaker over Kansas based on its 71–63 win over the Jayhawks in Norman, OK. The teams did not meet in Kansas City, MO.
In 2005–06, Texas won the Big 12 Tournament seeding tiebreaker over Kansas based on its 80–55 win over the Jayhawks in Austin, TX. Kansas beat Texas 80–68 in the Big 12 Tournament championship game in Dallas, TX.
In 2007–08, Texas won the Big 12 Tournament seeding tiebreaker over Kansas based on its 72–69 win over the Jayhawks in Austin, TX. Kansas beat Texas 84–74 in the Big 12 Tournament championship game in Kansas City, MO.
In 2012–13, Kansas won the Big 12 Tournament seeding tiebreaker over Kansas State based on winning 59–55 in Manhattan and 83–62 in Lawrence. Kansas beat Kansas State for a third time 70–54 in the championship game in Kansas City, MO.
*Due to the use of an ineligible player, Kansas was forced to vacate 15 victories from its 2017-18 season, including the Big 12 regular season and postseason championships the Jayhawks won that year. The bracketed numbers in subsequent are the official number of titles counting those that were vacated.
**The 2020 Big 12 Tournament was cancelled due to COVID-19.
In 2021–22, Kansas won the seeding tiebreaker over Baylor for the Big 12 Tournament, as Kansas had gone 1–1 against third place team Texas Tech, while Baylor had been swept by Texas Tech.

NCAA tournament performance

Totals through the end of the 2024–25 season.

University	Appearances	Final Fours	Championships
Arizona	39	4	1
Arizona State	17	0	0
Baylor	17	3	1
BYU	32	0	0
UCF	5	0	0
Cincinnati	33	6	2
Colorado	16	2	0
Houston	26	7	0
Iowa State	24	1	0
Kansas	52	15	4
Kansas State	32	4	0
Oklahoma State	29	6	2
TCU	11	0	0
Texas Tech	20	1	0
Utah	29	4	1
West Virginia	31	2	0

*Arizona has appeared in 39 tournaments; however, their 1999, 2008, 2017 and 2018 Tournament appearance was vacated by the NCAA, officially giving them 35 tournament appearances *Kansas has appeared in 52 tournaments and 16 final fours; however, their 2018 Tournament appearance was vacated by the NCAA, officially giving them 51 tournament appearances and 15 final fours

*Texas Tech has appeared in 21 tournaments; however, their 1996 Tournament appearance was vacated by the NCAA, officially giving them 20 tournament appearances.

All-time wins

Source:

Team	Big 12 Record	Big 12 Winning %	Overall record	Overall winning %	Big 12 regular season championships	Big 12 tournament championships
Arizona	14–6	Template:Winning percentage	1889–986–1	Template:Winning percentage	-	-
Arizona State	4–16	Template:Winning percentage	1468–1303	Template:Winning percentage	-	-
Baylor	232–258	Template:Winning percentage	1434–1387	Template:Winning percentage	2	-
BYU	24–14	Template:Winning percentage	1892–1145	Template:Winning percentage	-	-
UCF	14–24	Template:Winning percentage	874–688	Template:Winning percentage	-	-
Cincinnati	14–24	Template:Winning percentage	1911–1079	Template:Winning percentage	-	-
Houston	34–4	Template:Winning percentage	1435–882	Template:Winning percentage	2	1
Colorado	101–170	Template:Winning percentage	1427–1271	Template:Winning percentage	-	-
Iowa State	228–266	Template:Winning percentage	1460–1398	Template:Winning percentage	2	6
Kansas	391–103	Template:Winning percentage	2393–896	Template:Winning percentage	21	12
Kansas State	221–273	Template:Winning percentage	1740–1238	Template:Winning percentage	2	-
Oklahoma State	244–250	Template:Winning percentage	1748–1249	Template:Winning percentage	1	2
TCU	77–157	Template:Winning percentage	1319–1476	Template:Winning percentage	-	-
Texas Tech	211–282	Template:Winning percentage	1514–1180	Template:Winning percentage	1	-
Utah	8–12	Template:Winning percentage	1897–1081	Template:Winning percentage	-	-
West Virginia	111–124	Template:Winning percentage	1855–1175	Template:Winning percentage	-	-

Totals though the end of the 2024−25 regular season.

All-time series record

Totals from though the end of the 2024–25 season.
Includes any regular season match up regardless of conference affiliation or postseason meetings.

Source:

	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Arizona	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Arizona State	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Baylor	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. BYU	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. UCF	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Cincinnati	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Colorado	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Houston	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle;" width="75"|vs. Iowa State	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Kansas	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Kansas State	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Oklahoma State	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. TCU	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Texas Tech	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Utah	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. West Virginia	Total
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Arizona	—	163–87	5–7	21–20	1–0	5–0	27–16	6–8	5–4	5–9	6–9	4–0	2–2	26–29	41–32	4–3	321–226
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Arizona State	87–163	—	2–8	22–30	0–1	1–3	14–16	3–4	2–2	6–6	6–6	3–6	2–4	19–24	28–38	1–0	186–311
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Baylor	5–7	8–2	—	6–7	2–0	2–1	12–16	16–41	25–25	11–37	27–26	38–57	110–90	65–85	2–3	18–8	346–406
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|BYU	20–21	30–22	7–6	—	4–0	3–3	7–17	3–8	3–7	3–4	5–5	6–4	20–4	3–4	135–130	3–2	253–236
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| UCF	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–4	—	6–18	2–2	11–25	0–3	1–3	1–3	4–1	2–2	1–2	3–0	1–3	33–67
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| Cincinnati	0–5	3–1	1–2	3–3	18–6	—	8–1	33–17	4–5	5–5	8–3	3–5	7–1	2–1	4–2	12–13	127–92
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| Colorado	16–27	16–14	16–12	17–7	2–2	1–8	—	3–5	78–73	40–126	48–97	61–49	4–3	13–19	12–19	1–1	329–461
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| Houston	6–8	4–3	41–16	8–3	25–11	17–33	5–3	—	5–5	5–6	5–5	10–13	51–26	32–28	1–1	3–0	221–159
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle;" width="75"|Iowa State	4–5	2–2	25–25	7–3	3–0	5–4	73–78	5–5	—	69–191	95–147	68–72	18–15	24–22	2–2	10–15	410–586
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Kansas	9–5	6–6	37–11	4–3	3–1	5–5	126–40	6–5	191–69	—	206–97	126–60	27–4	43–9	2–1	27–8	818–324
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Kansas State	9–6	6–6	26–27	5–5	3–1	3–8	97–48	5–5	147–95	97–206	—	88–60	21–14	26–26	2–2	13–16	551–525
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Oklahoma State	0–4	6–3	57–38	4–6	1–4	5–3	49–61	13–10	72–68	60–126	60–88	—	29–15	50–28	5–2	13–13	425–471
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|TCU	2–2	4–2	90–110	4–20	2–2	1–7	3–4	26–51	15–18	4–27	14–21	15–29	—	57–88	16–7	8–19	260–406
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Texas Tech	29–26	24–19	85–65	4–3	2–1	1–2	19–13	28–32	22–24	9–43	26–26	28–50	88–57	—	3–5	11–18	379–384
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Utah	32–44	38–28	3–2	130–135	0–3	2–4	19–12	1–1	2–2	1–2	2–2	2–5	7–16	5–3	—	6–2	249–259
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|West Virginia	3–4	0–1	8–18	2–3	3–1	13–12	1–1	0–3	15–10	8–27	16–13	13–13	19–8	18–11	2–6	—	120–132

Big 12 series record

1997 - 2025 as Big 12 Members

Source:
Some of the values from the bottom of page 32 don't match with the detailed numbers given on pages 33–41 so that latter values were used: *

	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Arizona	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Arizona State	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Baylor	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. BYU	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. UCF	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Cincinnati	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Colorado	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Houston	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle;" width="75"|vs. Iowa State	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Kansas	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Kansas State	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Oklahoma State	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. TCU	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Texas Tech	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. Utah	style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|vs. West Virginia	Total
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Arizona	—	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	16–8
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Arizona State	0–2	—	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–0	4–17
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Baylor	0–2	1–0	—	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	0–3	24–20	10–34	28–17 *	27–31	21–6 *	29–28	2–0	14–9	160–155
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|BYU	1–1	2–0	2–1	—	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–3	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–0	23–14
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| UCF	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–3	—	1–3	1–1	0–3	0–3	1–3	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–2	14–25
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| Cincinnati	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	3–1	—	1–0	0–3	0–3	0–2	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–1	1–3	15–23
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| Colorado	0–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	—	0–2	0–3	0–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	5–19
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| Houston	0–2	1–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	—	2–1	3–1	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	32–4
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle;" width="75"|Iowa State	1–1	1–0	20–24	1–3	3–0	3–0	3–0	1–2	—	17–44	30–29	20–25	15–9	21–21	1–0	9–13 *	146–171
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Kansas	1–1	1–0	34–10	0–2	3–1	2–0	2–0	1–3	44–17	—	58–8	35–13	22–3 *	34–9	0–1	19–8 *	256–69
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Kansas State	1–0	2–1	17–28 *	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	29–30	8–58	—	19–27 *	17–9 *	18–24 *	0–1	11–14	127–198
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Oklahoma State	0–1	1–0	31–27	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	0–3	25–20	13–35	27–19 *	—	11–12	39–24	1–1	12–11	165–158
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|TCU	0–1	1–0	6–21 *	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	9–15	3–22	9–17 *	12–11	—	8–16	0–1	7–18	60–130
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|Texas Tech	1–2	2–0	28–29	2–0	1–2	2–1	1–0	1–2	21–21	9–34	24–18 *	24–39	16–8 *	—	1–0	10–15 *	142–171
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"| Utah	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	—	0–2	8–13
style="Template:CollegePrimaryStyle" width="75"|West Virginia	1–1	0–1	9–14	0–3	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–3	13–9 *	8–19 *	14–11	11–12	18–7	15–10 *	0–2	—	96–94

Baseball

All current Big 12 members sponsor baseball except Colorado, which never sponsored baseball during its first conference tenure and still does not sponsor the sport, and Iowa State, which dropped the sport after the 2001 season. All other former Big 12 members sponsored the sport throughout their tenures in the conference.

Baseball titles by university

Team	Season	Regular Season	Tournament	Total
Arizona	2025–present	0	1	1
Arizona State	2025–present	0	0	0
Baylor	1997–present	3	1	4
BYU	2024–present	0	0	0
Cincinnati	2024–present	0	0	0
Houston	2024–present	0	0	0
Iowa State	1997–2001	0	0	0
Kansas	1997–present	0	1	1
Kansas State	1997–present	1	0	1
Missouri	1997–2012	0	1	1
Nebraska	1997–2011	3	4	7
Oklahoma	1997–2024	1	3	4
Oklahoma State	1997–present	2	4	6
TCU	2013–present	3	4	7
Texas	1997–2024	10	5	15
Texas A&M	1997–2012	4	3	7
Texas Tech	1997–present	4	1	5
UCF	2024–present	0	0	0
Utah	2025–present	0	0	0
West Virginia	2013–present	2	0	2

Baseball titles by season

Season	Regular season	Tournament
1997	Texas Tech	Oklahoma
1998	Texas A&M	Texas Tech
1999	Texas A&M	Nebraska
2000	Baylor	Nebraska
2001	Nebraska	Nebraska
2002	Texas	Texas
2003	Nebraska	Texas
2004	Texas	Oklahoma State
2005	Baylor†	Nebraska
	Nebraska†
2006	Texas	Kansas
2007	Texas	Texas A&M
2008	Texas A&M	Texas
2009	Texas	Texas
2010	Texas	Texas A&M
2011	Texas†	Texas A&M
	Texas A&M†
2012	Baylor University	Missouri
2013	Kansas State	Oklahoma
2014	Oklahoma State	TCU
2015	TCU	Texas
2016	Texas Tech	TCU
2017	TCU†	Oklahoma State
	Texas Tech†
2018	Texas	Baylor
2019	Texas Tech	Oklahoma State
2020	none	none
2021	Texas†	TCU
	TCU†
2022	TCU	Oklahoma
2023	Texas†	TCU
	Oklahoma State†
	West Virginia†
2024	Oklahoma	Oklahoma State
2025	West Virginia	Arizona

NCAA tournament performance

Totals through the end of the 2025 season.

University	NCAA Appearances	CWS Appearances	CWS Championships	Championship Seasons
Arizona	44	19	4	1976, 1980, 1986, 2012
Arizona State	42	22	5	1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1981
Baylor	21	3	0	-
BYU	16	2	0	-
Cincinnati	8	0	0	-
Houston	22	2	0	-
Iowa State	3	2	0	-
Kansas	6	1	0	-
Kansas State	6	0	0	-
Oklahoma State	50	20	1	1959
TCU	20	6	0	-
Texas Tech	18	4	0	-
UCF	13	0	0	-
Utah	5	1	0	-
West Virginia	16	0	0	-

Broadcasting and media rights

The Big 12's media rights are controlled primarily by ESPN (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN+) and Fox Sports (Fox and FS1). Since 2012, ESPN has sublicensed college basketball games to CBS Sports. Beginning in 2025, ESPN will sublicense college football and basketball games to TNT Sports.

2012 media deal

On September 7, 2012, the Big 12 announced a 13-year agreement with ESPN and Fox valued at $2.6 billion in total. ESPN and Fox split college football rights, while the basketball inventory was held by ESPN with sublicensing options for CBS Sports and Fox Sports. The agreement also included a grant of rights for all current Big 12 teams over the period of the contract.

In addition to the national agreement, each Big 12 university maintained the right to sell its "third-tier" covering selected events per-season (including one football game, basketball games, and other events outside of those sports). The third-tier rights to the Texas Longhorns are held through a channel dedicated to the team — Longhorn Network — which is operated by ESPN. In 2019, ESPN announced that it would acquire the third-tier rights to all Big 12 teams through 2024–25 (excluding Oklahoma and Texas, which are still under long-term contracts with ESPN+ and Longhorn Network respectively), and place their content on its subscription streaming service ESPN+. ESPN also acquired exclusive rights to all future Big 12 football championship games, replacing the previous alternation between ESPN and Fox.

2025 extension deal

On October 30, 2022, the Big 12 announced that it had reached early broadcast deal to renew rights with ESPN network (includes ABC rights) and Fox. It is a six-year media rights agreement worth a total of $2.3 billion, but also reportedly includes an "escalator clause" that will raise the value of the contracts if only Power Five schools are added. By striking a deal prior to the exclusive negotiating window with ESPN and Fox, the Big 12 managed to achieve several of its primary objectives of stability and security, including the ability to consult its member schools to seek an extended grant of rights and potential future conference expansion. Fox's deal also places a slate of Big 12 college basketball games on Fox Sports for the first time.

• ESPN:
  • Football games will primarily air in a primetime window on ESPN
  • Rights to the football Big 12 Championship Game
  • Rights to the Big 12 basketball championship
  • Rights to a slate of college basketball games
  • Primary streaming partner under the branding Big 12 Now on ESPN+
• Fox Sports:
  • 26 football games per season:
  • Rights to a slate of college basketball games
• TNT Sports
  • College football, men's basketball, and women's basketball games that would normally be broadcast on ESPN's streaming service ESPN+ will be licensed to TNT Sports to be broadcast on TNT and/or TBS, as well as the Max streaming service.
• CBS
  • Sublicense rights to select college basketball games
• NFL Network:
  • Will air conference wide Pro Day on NFL Network

Big 12 Studios

In 2024, the Big 12 announced the creation of a Free ad-supported streaming television channel, Big 12 Studios, which will show content related to the games. The channel is operated in partnership with Raycom Sports.

External links

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