Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas. The conference consists of ten full-member universities. It is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for all sports. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. Its ten members, in the states of Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia, include eight public and two private, Christian schools. Additionally, the Big 12 has 11 affiliate members—eight for the sport of wrestling, one of which is also a member in women's equestrianism; one for women's gymnastics; and two for women's rowing. The Big 12 Conference is a 501 nonprofit organization incorporated in Delaware.
The Big 12 Conference was founded on February 25, 1994. The eight members of the former Big Eight Conference joined with Southwest Conference schools Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech to form the new Big 12 Conference, which commenced competition on August 31, 1996.
The conference's current 10-campus makeup resulted from the 2010–13 Big 12 Conference realignment, in which Nebraska joined the Big Ten Conference, Colorado joined the Pac-12, and Missouri and Texas A&M joined the Southeastern Conference. TCU and West Virginia joined from the Mountain West and Big East Conferences respectively to offset two of the departing schools, bringing the conference to its current strength.
The Big 12 Conference, like others involved in the realignment, has kept its name primarily for marketing purposes; the conference has high name recognition and remains one of the Power Five conferences which are considered the primary contenders to produce a College Football Playoff champion team in any given year. Attempts to rename the Big 12 to reflect its current strength would lead to confusion with the current Big Ten Conference.
The Big 12 Conference commissioner is Bob Bowlsby.
Member schools
Current members
Affiliate members
- 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 school 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.
Former members
Former affiliate members
Membership timeline
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Sports
The Big 12 Conference sponsors championship competition in ten men's and thirteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports.| Sport | Men's | Women's |
| Baseball | 9 | – |
| Basketball | 10 | 10 |
| Cross Country | 9 | 10 |
| Equestrian | – | 4 |
| Football | 10 | – |
| Golf | 10 | 9 |
| Gymnastics | – | 4 |
| Rowing | – | 7 |
| Soccer | – | 10 |
| Softball | – | 7 |
| Swimming & Diving | 3 | 5 |
| Tennis | 6 | 10 |
| Track and Field | 9 | 10 |
| Track and Field | 9 | 10 |
| Volleyball | – | 9 |
| Wrestling | 12 | – |
Men's sponsored sports by school
Below are the men’s sports sponsored by each member institution. The only sports with full participation by the entire conference are basketball, football, and golf. Swimming and diving has the least amount of participation with only three schools fielding a team. The conference fields 12 teams for wrestling, the most of any sport, with only 4 teams being full-time members, as well as 8 affiliate members.Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 schools:
| School | Gymnastics | Rifle* | Soccer |
| Oklahoma | Mountain Pacific Sports Federation | No | No |
| TCU | No | Patriot Rifle Conference | No |
| West Virginia | No | Great America Rifle Conference | Mid-American Conference |
- Rifle is often categorized as a men's sport because the NCAA bylaws that establish scholarship limits for each sport list rifle as a men's sport. Nonetheless, it is an open coed sport in NCAA college athletics, with men's, women's, and coed teams in all NCAA divisions competing against each other. TCU and West Virginia both field coed teams. Through 2017, West Virginia with 19 national titles and TCU with two, together have won over half of the NCAA titles awarded since the inaugural NCAA championship in 1980. West Virginia also won four pre-NCAA national titles.
Women's sponsored sports by school
Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 schools:
| School | Acrobatics & Tumbling | Beach Volleyball | Rifle |
| Baylor | No | No | |
| TCU | No | Coastal Collegiate Sports Association | Patriot Rifle Conference |
| West Virginia | No | No | Great America Rifle Conference |
History
The Big 12 Conference was formed in February 1994 when four prominent colleges from Texas that were members of the Southwest Conference were invited to join the eight members of the Big Eight Conference to form a new 12 member conference. The Big 12 does not claim the Big Eight's history as its own, even though it was essentially the Big Eight plus the four Texas schools.The Big 12 began athletic play in the fall of 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 Oklahoma and Texas schools formed the South Division, while the other six teams of the former Big Eight formed the North Division.
Between 2011 and 2012 four charter members left the conference, while two schools joined in 2012.
Distinctive elements
Football championship game takes hiatus, returns in 2017
The Big 12 is unique among the current "Power Five" conferences in that it only has 10 members, despite the name, causing some confusion. From 1987 to 2015, 12 or more members were required for an "exempt" conference championship game—that is, one that did not count against NCAA limits for regular-season games —although the first such game was not established until the SEC did so in 1992.Former Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds and former football coach Mack Brown, along with Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops, preferred not to have a championship game. Critics argued it was a competitive advantage over other contract conferences. Conferences with a championship game have their division champions typically play one of their toughest games of the year in the last week of the regular season. Unlike the other "Power 5" conferences in which a team only plays a portion of the other teams in the conference each season, each Big 12 team plays the other nine teams during its conference schedule. This theoretically allows for the declaration of a de facto champion without the need for an additional rematch between the top two teams in the conference.
On June 3, 2016, the conference announced it would reinstate the football championship game in the 2017 season. This followed the passage of a new NCAA rule allowing all FBS conferences to hold "exempt" football championship games regardless of their membership numbers.
Population base
The Big 12 schools are located in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, West Virginia and Iowa. These states have a combined population of 37.8 million.As of 2013, out of the 115.6 million TV households nationwide there are 13,427,130 TV households in those states, although Morgantown, West Virginia where WVU is based is in the Pittsburgh television market, which increases the Big 12's television base well into Pennsylvania, and Lawrence, Kansas, where KU is based, is in the Kansas City television market, increasing the base into western Missouri. The Big 12's share of the nation's TVs is similar to that reached by the rest of the Power Five. The conference negotiated tier 1 and 2 TV contracts with total payouts similar to those of the other Power Five conferences.
Grant of Rights
Member schools granted their first and second tier sports media rights to the conference for the length of their current TV deals. The Grant of Rights 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. Four of the five major conferences now have such agreements, with the SEC the only exception.
Tier 3 events
The Big 12 is the only major conference that allows members to monetize TV rights for tier 3 events in football and men's basketball. This allows individual Big 12 member institutions to create tier 3 deals that include TV rights for one home football game and four home men's basketball games per season. Tier 3 rights exist for other sports as well, but these are not unique to the Big 12. The unique arrangement potentially allows Big 12 members to remain some of college sports' highest revenue earners. Other conferences' cable deals are subject to value reductions based on how people acquire cable programming; Big 12 schools' tier 3 deals are exempt. Texas alone will earn more than $150 million of that total from their Longhorn Network.Revenue
Conference revenue comes mostly from television contracts, bowl games, the NCAA, merchandise, licensing and conference-hosted sporting events. The Conference distributes revenue annually to member institutions. From 1996 to 2011, 57 percent of revenue was allotted equally; while 43 percent was based upon the number of football and men's basketball television appearances and other factors. In 2011, the distribution was 76 percent equal and 24 percent based on television appearances. Changing the arrangement requires a unanimous vote; as a Big 12 member, Nebraska and Texas A&M had withheld support for more equitable revenue distribution.With this model, larger schools can receive more revenue because they appear more often on television. In 2006, for example, Texas received $10.2 million, 44% more than Baylor University's $7.1 million.
Big 12 revenue was generally less than other BCS conferences; this was due in part to television contracts signed with Fox Sports Net and ABC/ESPN.
In 2011, the Big 12 announced a new 13-year media rights deal with Fox that would ensure that every Big 12 home football game is televised, as well as greatly increasing coverage of women's basketball, conference championships and other sports. The deal, valued at an estimated $1.1 billion, runs until 2025. In 2012, the conference announced a new ESPN/FOX agreement, replacing the current ABC/ESPN deal, to immediately increase national media broadcasts of football and increase conference revenue; the new deal was estimated to be worth $2.6 billion through the 2025 expiration. The two deals pushed the conference per-school payout to approximately $20 million per year, while separating third-tier media rights into separate deals for each school; such contracts secured an additional $6 million to $20 million per school annually. The per-school payout under the deal is expected to reach $44 million, according to Commissioner Bob Bowlsby.
Revenue ranking
Revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights/licensing, student fees, school funds and all other sources including TV income, camp income, food and novelties. Total expenses includes coaching/staff, scholarships, buildings/ground, maintenance, utilities and rental fees and all other costs including recruiting, team travel, equipment and uniforms, conference dues and insurance costs. Data is from United States Department of Education.| 2014–15 Conference Rank | Institution | 2014–15 Total Revenue from Athletics | 2014–15 Total Expenses on Athletics | 2014–15 Average Spending per student-athlete |
| 1 | University of Texas at Austin | $179,555,311 | $152,853,239 | $218,050 |
| 2 | University of Oklahoma | $135,660,070 | $124,732,244 | $170,866 |
| 3 | Baylor University | $106,078,643 | $106,078,643 | $153,737 |
| 4 | University of Kansas | $103,326,170 | $103,326,170 | $177,536 |
| 5 | West Virginia University | $87,265,473 | $87,265,473 | $147,159 |
| 6 | Oklahoma State University | $85,645,208 | $80,196,450 | $123,189 |
| 7 | Texas Christian University | $80,608,562 | $80,608,562 | $145,766 |
| 8 | Kansas State University | $76,245,188 | $66,449,920 | $110,016 |
| 9 | Texas Tech University | $69,858,256 | $64,245,380 | $123,207 |
| 10 | Iowa State University | $65,733,110 | $65,658,901 | $129,396 |
Facilities
Championships
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.Football :
1997 – Nebraska
2000 – Oklahoma
2005 – Texas
Equestrian :
2002 − Texas A&M
2012 – Baylor
2012 – Texas A&M
Baseball :
2002 – Texas
2005 – Texas
Men's Basketball :
2008 – Kansas
Women's Basketball :
2005 – Baylor
2011 – Texas A&M
2012 – Baylor
2019 – Baylor
Women's Bowling :
1999 – Nebraska
2001 – Nebraska
2004 – Nebraska
2005 – Nebraska
2009 – Nebraska
Men's Cross Country :
2001 – Colorado
2004 – Colorado
2006 – Colorado
2009 – Oklahoma State
2010 – Oklahoma State
2012 – Oklahoma State
Women's Cross Country :
2000 – Colorado
2004 – Colorado
Men's Golf :
2000 – Oklahoma State
2006 – Oklahoma State
2009 – Texas A&M
2012 – Texas
2017 – Oklahoma
2018 - Oklahoma State
Rifle :
2013 – West Virginia
2014 – West Virginia
2015 – West Virginia
2016 – West Virginia
2017 – West Virginia
2019 - TCU
Women's Gymnastics :
2014 – Oklahoma
2016 – Oklahoma
2017 – Oklahoma
2019 – Oklahoma
Men's Gymnastics :
2002 – Oklahoma
2003 – Oklahoma
2005 – Oklahoma
2006 – Oklahoma
2008 – Oklahoma
2015 – Oklahoma
2016 – Oklahoma
2017 – Oklahoma
2018 – Oklahoma
Women's Indoor Track :
1998 – Texas
1999 – Texas
2006 – Texas
Men's Outdoor Track :
2009 – Texas A&M
2010 – Texas A&M
2011 – Texas A&M
2019 – Texas Tech
Women's Outdoor Track :
1998 – Texas
1999 – Texas
2005 – Texas
2009 – Texas A&M
2010 – Texas A&M
2011 – Texas A&M
2013 – Kansas
Men's/Women's Skiing :
1998 – Colorado
1999 – Colorado
2006 – Colorado
2011 – Colorado
Softball :
2000 – Oklahoma
2013 – Oklahoma
2016 – Oklahoma
2017 – Oklahoma
Men's Swimming :
1996 – Texas
2000 – Texas
2001 – Texas
2002 – Texas
2010 – Texas
2015 – Texas
2016 – Texas
2017 – Texas
2018 – Texas
Men's Tennis :
2004 – Baylor
2019 – Texas
Women's Volleyball :
2000 – Nebraska
2006 – Nebraska
2012 – Texas
Wrestling :
2003 – Oklahoma State
2004 – Oklahoma State
2005 – Oklahoma State
2006 – Oklahoma State
National team titles by institution
The national championships listed below are as of March 2016. Football, Helms, pre-NCAA competition and overall equestrian titles are included in the total, but excluded from the column listing NCAA and AIAW titles.See also:
List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships,
List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships, and
NCAA Division I FBS Conferences
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.
Conference titles by school
All-Time Big 12 Championships By SchoolThrough June 12, 2019.
- Baylor – 80
- Iowa State – 25
- Kansas – 38
- Kansas State – 17
- Oklahoma – 83
- Oklahoma State – 75
- TCU – 10
- Texas – 180
- Texas Tech – 25
- West Virginia – 11
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. Due to the departure of Nebraska and Colorado in 2011, the Big 12 eliminated the divisions 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. 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."
Championship game
The Big 12 Championship Game 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.
Bowl affiliations
The following were bowl games for the Big 12 for the 2019 season.Rivalries
Rivalries 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. 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.The rivalry between TCU and Baylor, known as the Revivalry is also one of the longest running in college football, with the two schools having played each other — largely as Southwest Conference members — 114 times since 1899. As of the 2019 game, TCU leads the series 55–53–7.
The Oklahoma-Texas rivalry, the Red River Showdown is one year younger and has been played 108 times. This was a major rivalry decades before they were both in the conference, starting the year after the Revivalry in 1900. As of the 2019 game, Texas leads this rivalry 62–48–5.
Some of the longstanding football rivalries between Big 12 schools include:
| Rivalry | Name | Trophy | Games played† | Began |
| Baylor–TCU | The Revivalry | 115 | 1899 | |
| Baylor–Texas Tech | Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Shootout | 78 | 1929 | |
| Iowa State-Kansas State | Farmageddon | 103 | 1917 | |
| Kansas–Kansas State | Sunflower Showdown | Governor's Cup | 112 | 1902 |
| Oklahoma-Oklahoma State | Bedlam | Bedlam Bell | 114 | 1904 |
| Oklahoma–Texas | Red River Showdown | Golden Hat | 115 | 1900 |
| Oklahoma State–Texas Tech | 47 | 1935 | ||
| TCU–Texas Tech | The West Texas Championship | The Saddle Trophy | 62 | 1926 |
| Texas–Texas Tech | Chancellor's Spurs | 69 | 1928 |
Rivalries with former members
Men's basketball
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 "division"s 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.Conference champions
Big 12 basketball teams currently play a "home and away" double round robin 18-game schedule, expanded from 16 games after the 2011 realignment. All teams in the conference qualify for the Big 12 tournament. Because of this, the only time a team will not play is if they are ineligible for postseason play due to disciplinary action from the NCAA, which has yet to happen since the Big 12’s inception. From 1996–97 to 2010–11, teams played in-division members twice and non-division members only once. The conference tournament gave first round byes to the top four teams from 1997 until 2012, and the top six teams from 2013 to present.Kansas has the most Big 12 titles, winning or sharing the regular-season title 18 times in the league's 23 seasons, including 14 straight from 2004–05 to 2017–18. 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 | Kansas |
| 1998–99 | Texas | Kansas |
| 1999–00 | Iowa State | Iowa State |
| 2000–01 | Iowa State | Oklahoma |
| 2001–02 | Kansas | Oklahoma |
| 2002–03 | Kansas | Oklahoma |
| 2003–04 | Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State |
| 2004–05 | Oklahoma Kansas | Oklahoma State |
| 2005–06 | Texas Kansas | Kansas |
| 2006–07 | Kansas | Kansas |
| 2007–08 | Texas Kansas | Kansas |
| 2008–09 | Kansas | Missouri |
| 2009–10 | Kansas | Kansas |
| 2010–11 | Kansas | Kansas |
| 2011–12 | Kansas | Missouri |
| 2012–13 | Kansas Kansas State | Kansas |
| 2013–14 | Kansas | Iowa State |
| 2014–15 | Kansas | Iowa State |
| 2015–16 | Kansas | Kansas |
| 2016–17 | Kansas | Iowa State |
| 2017-18 | Kansas | Kansas |
| 2018-19 | Kansas State Texas Tech | Iowa State |
| 2019-20 | Kansas | Cancelled* |
NCAA tournament performance
Totals through the end of the 2019–20 season.| School | Appearances | Final Fours | Championships |
| Baylor | 12 | 2 | 0 |
| Iowa State | 20 | 1 | 0 |
| Kansas | 48 | 15 | 3 |
| Kansas State | 31 | 4 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 32 | 6 | 0 |
| Oklahoma State | 28 | 6 | 2 |
| TCU | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas | 34 | 3 | 0 |
| Texas Tech | 17* | 1 | 0 |
| West Virginia | 29 | 2 | 0 |
All-time records
Totals through the end of the 2018–19 season.| Team | Big 12 Record | Big 12 Winning % | Overall Record | Overall Winning % | Big 12 Regular Season Championships | Big 12 Tournament Championships |
| Baylor | 94–157 | .375 | 1287–1337 | .490 | - | - |
| Colorado | 95-145 | .396 | - | - | - | - |
| Iowa State | 181–184 | .496 | 1376-1323 | .510 | 2 | 5 |
| Kansas | 179–43 | .805 | 2186-836 | .723 | 18 | 11 |
| Kansas State | 90–131 | .407 | 1581-1123 | .585 | 2 | - |
| Missouri | 139-119 | .539 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Nebraska | 97-143 | .404 | - | - | - | - |
| Oklahoma | 151–100 | .602 | 1626-1035 | .613 | 1 | 3 |
| Oklahoma State | 130–121 | .518 | 1606-1130 | .587 | 1 | 2 |
| TCU | 8–64 | .111 | 1160–1366 | .459 | - | - |
| Texas | 157–94 | .626 | 1738-1035 | .627 | 3 | - |
| Texas A&M | 98-160 | .380 | - | - | - | - |
| Texas Tech | 84–167 | .335 | 1351-1080 | .556 | 1 | - |
| West Virginia | 39–33 | .542 | 1702-1059 | .616 | - | - |
Overall series records
Totals through the end of the 2015–16 season.Baseball
All current Big 12 members sponsor baseball except Iowa State, which dropped the sport after the 2001 season. All former Big 12 members sponsored the sport throughout their tenures in the conference except Colorado, which never sponsored baseball during its time in the Big 12.| Team | Season | Regular Season | Tournament | Total |
| Baylor | 1997–present | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 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–present | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Oklahoma State | 1997–present | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| TCU | 2013–present | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Texas | 1997–present | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Texas A&M | 1997–2012 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Texas Tech | 1997–present | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| West Virginia | 2013–present | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 2005 | 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 |
| 2011 | Texas A&M† | Texas A&M |
| 2012 | Baylor | Missouri |
| 2013 | Kansas State | Oklahoma |
| 2014 | Oklahoma State | TCU |
| 2015 | TCU | Texas |
| 2016 | Texas Tech | TCU |
| 2017 | TCU† | Oklahoma State |
| 2017 | Texas Tech† | Oklahoma State |
| 2018 | Texas | Baylor |
| 2019 | Texas Tech | Oklahoma State |
By school
- As of the completion of the 2018 tournament.
| School | Appearances | W-L | Pct | Tourney Titles | Title Years |
| Baylor | 21 | 35–37 | 1 | 2018 | |
| Iowa State | 1 | 1–2 | .333 | 0 | |
| Kansas | 9 | 10–17 | 1 | 2006 | |
| Kansas State | 10 | 14–18 | 0 | ||
| Missouri | 13 | 22–19 | .536 | 1 | 2012 |
| Nebraska | 10 | 28–10 | .737 | 4 | 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | 36–35 | 2 | 1997, 2013 | |
| Oklahoma State | 19 | 25–35 | 2 | 2004, 2017, 2019 | |
| TCU | 5 | 12–7 | 2 | 2014, 2016 | |
| Texas | 18 | 41–29 | 5 | 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015 | |
| Texas A&M | 13 | 24–18 | .571 | 3 | 2007, 2010, 2011 |
| Texas Tech | 17 | 18–34 | 1 | 1998 | |
| West Virginia | 5 | 8–8 | 0 |
Broadcasting
Football
Big 12 home football games are carried through Fox Sports or ESPN. Fox Sports may choose to place the game on the FOX broadcast network, on its cable networks FS1 or FS2, or a national or regional broadcast on Fox Sports’ regional networks. ESPN may choose to place the games on the ABC broadcast network, or on cable networks ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPNU. ESPN may also display the games through its online streaming services, ESPN3 or ESPN+. ESPN also retains the right to place games on the Longhorn Network. The Big 12 Championship game was first broadcast by FOX in 2017, and will be televised on ABC or ESPN in the coming years. Non-conference away games are subject to the home teams' broadcasting contracts, so games may appear on other networks.Men’s Basketball
The majority of Big 12 home men's basketball games are produced by ESPN. They may be carried on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPNEWS. They may also be streamed on Big 12 Now, the Big 12's digital network on ESPN+. The Big 12 features in ESPN's Big Monday telecast, which has an exclusive 8 PM CT window for the Big 12. Occasional high-profile Saturday games may be picked up for national broadcast by CBS. The Big 12 men's basketball tournament is produced by ESPN and is carried on ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU during the same week when those networks carry the SEC, ACC, and Pac-12 tournaments among others.Women’s Basketball
Some women's basketball games may be produced by Fox Sports and carried on FS1. They may also be streamed on Big 12 Now, the Big 12's digital network on ESPN+. The women's basketball tournament is produced by Fox Sports.Other sports
ESPN may occasionally pick up a volleyball, soccer, women's gymnastics, softball, or baseball contest for coverage on ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPNU. The championship tournaments for soccer, softball, and baseball are produced by Fox Sports.Local coverage
Athletic events not selected for national broadcast are often produced by the athletic department of the home team. This is particularly common for regular season volleyball, soccer, gymnastics, women's basketball, softball, baseball, tennis, and golf events. These locally produced telecasts are carried on a variety of outlets, including regional Fox Sports networks, the Longhorn Network, or online-only platforms.Apparel
| School | Provider |
| Baylor | Nike |
| Iowa State | Nike |
| Kansas | Adidas |
| Kansas State | Nike |
| Oklahoma | Nike Air Jordan |
| Oklahoma State | Nike |
| Texas | Nike |
| TCU | Nike |
| Texas Tech | Under Armour |
| West Virginia | Nike |