List of Big 12 Conference champions

Big 12 Conference
Titles per University
Current Members
Baylor	69
Iowa State	20
Kansas	35
Kansas State	16
Oklahoma	70
Oklahoma State	67
TCU	9
Texas	163
Texas Tech	21
West Virginia	9
Affiliate members*
Air Force	0
Alabama	0
Denver	0
Fresno State	0
North Dakota State	0
Northern Colorado	0
Northern Iowa	0
Old Dominion	0
South Dakota State	0
Tennessee	0
Utah Valley	0
Wyoming	0
Former Members
Colorado	31
Missouri	13
Nebraska	80
Texas A&M	61
Locations
*Affiliate members compete in the following sports: Women's gymnastics: Denver Women's rowing: Alabama, Old Dominion, Tennessee Wrestling: Air Force, Fresno State, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado, Northern Iowa, South Dakota State, Utah Valley, Wyoming

The Big 12 Conference sponsors championships in 23 sports, 10 men's and 13 women's.^[1] The first conference championship awarded was the 1996 softball postseason tournament championship, which was won by Oklahoma.

From 2011 through 2016, the football champion was decided by regular-season play. Previously 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 for the Big 12 title. Following changes in NCAA rules, the Big 12 will reinstate its football championship game in 2017, with the top two teams in the final conference standings advancing to the title game. Baseball, basketball, soccer, and tennis titles are awarded in both regular-season and tournament play. Cross country, golf, gymnastics, rowing, swimming and diving, track and field, and wrestling titles are awarded during an annual meet of participating teams. The volleyball and softball titles are awarded based on regular-season play. Softball previously held a post season tournament.

Membership

Team	Season	Regular Season[2]	Postseason[2]	Total[2]
Baylor Bears	1997–present	43	26	69
Colorado Buffaloes	1997–2011	5	26	31
Iowa State Cyclones	1997–present	4	16	20
Kansas Jayhawks	1997–present	20	15	35
Kansas State Wildcats	1997–present	10	6	16
Missouri Tigers	1997–2012	6	7	13
Nebraska Cornhuskers	1997–2011	33	47	80
Oklahoma Sooners	1997–present	33	37	70
Oklahoma State Cowboys and Cowgirls	1997–present	11	56	67
TCU Horned Frogs	2013–present	4	5	9
Texas Longhorns	1997–present	51	112	163
Texas A&M Aggies	1997–2012	20	41	61
Texas Tech Red Raiders	1997–present	11	10	21
West Virginia Mountaineers	2013–present	6	3	9

Sports

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.^[3]

Men's basketball

Women's basketball

Men's cross country

All Big 12 schools sponsor men's cross country except West Virginia.

Women's cross country

Women's equestrian

Football

Big 12 Championship Game (1996-2010)

Season	North Division Representative	South Division Representative	Big 12 Champion
1996	Nebraska	Texas	Texas
1997	Nebraska	Texas A&M	Nebraska
1998	Kansas State	Texas A&M	Texas A&M
1999	Nebraska	Texas	Nebraska
2000	Kansas State	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
2001	Colorado	Texas	Colorado
2002	Colorado	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
2003	Kansas State	Oklahoma	Kansas State
2004	Colorado	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
2005	Colorado	Texas	Texas
2006	Nebraska	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
2007	Missouri	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
2008	Missouri	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
2009	Nebraska	Texas	Texas
2010	Nebraska	Oklahoma	Oklahoma

Note: While the team playing in the championship game is popularly regarded as the divisional champion, the Big 12 did officially recognize co-champions in football, just like it does in other sports. As a result, the following teams are also recognized as champions by the Big 12:
North Co-Champions: Kansas State (1999), Nebraska (2000, 2001, 2008), Iowa State (2004), Kansas (2007), Missouri (2010)
South Co-Champions: Texas (2002, 2008), Texas Tech (2008), Oklahoma State (2010), Texas A&M (2010) ^[11]

2011 – present

When Nebraska and Colorado left the conference after the 2010 season, it left the conference with only 10 members. The conference did not replace the two teams and therefore eliminated the Big 12 Championship game. Under the new format, every team plays each other and the team with the best conference record wins the Big 12 title. In the event of a tie between two teams or more teams for the best conference record, then they were determined co-champions. Through the 2013 season, the winner of the head-to-head game earned the BCS berth in the Fiesta Bowl.^[12] This has since been changed and the league will recognize a tie-breaker starting in 2015.^[12] The change was made after the B12 was left out of the inaugural four-team College Football Invitational in 2014. The B12 presented TCU and Baylor as co-champs to the College Football Committee in 2014, despite Baylor having the head to head win over TCU. The move was seen as a play by the conference to get two teams invited into the new format, which backfired, leaving both teams out.^[13]

With the launch of the College Football Playoff (CFP) in 2014, which coincided with a reworking of bowl tie-ins, the Big 12 tie to the Fiesta Bowl ended.

• The Big 12's primary bowl partner is now the Sugar Bowl, In years when that game is not a CFP semifinal, the top teams from the Big 12 and SEC, as chosen by the CFP selection committee, will play one another. If either conference provides a team for the CFP semifinals, the top non-playoff team from that conference will go to the Sugar Bowl.
• When the Sugar Bowl is hosting a semifinal, the top Big 12 team not involved in the playoff will receive a berth in either the Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, or Peach Bowl.

Big 12 Champions (2011–present)

Season	Big 12 Champion
2011	Oklahoma State
2012	Kansas State* Oklahoma
2013	Baylor
2014	Baylor* TCU
2015	Oklahoma
2016	Oklahoma

Note: * Head to head winner, though this is irrelevant since Big 12 bylaws had no tie-breaker provisions at the time.

Men's golf

West Virginia added men's golf starting in the 2015–16 season.

Women's golf

Women's gymnastics

Denver became an affiliate in women's gymnastics effective with the 2015–16 season.

Rowing

In the 2014–15 school year, rowing was the only Big 12 sport with affiliate members. Prior to that school year, the Big 12 and Conference USA (C-USA) had a rowing alliance in which all Big 12 rowing schools would participate in the C-USA championship as well as the Big 12 championship. C-USA dropped rowing after the departure of most of its rowing members for other conferences. The Big 12 then took in the three remaining schools from the C-USA rowing league (Alabama, Old Dominion, and Tennessee) as single-sport affiliates.

Since 2015–16, the Big 12 also has affiliates in women's gymnastics and wrestling.

Women's soccer

Kansas State announced in 2015 that it would begin sponsoring women's soccer. The Wildcats played their first season in 2016 as an independent, and will begin playing a full Big 12 schedule in 2017.^[19]

Softball

Seven Big 12 schools currently sponsor softball; Kansas State, TCU, and West Virginia do not.

Reference:^[20]

Men's swimming and diving

Women's swimming & diving

Men's tennis

Women's tennis

Reference:^[23]

Men's track and field

Women's track & field

Women's Volleyball

Oklahoma State never sponsored a team in the Big 12.^[26] Nebraska left the conference in 2011.

Wrestling

Wrestling crowned regular-season champions in 2011–12 and 2012–13 only.

In 2015, the Big 12 absorbed the Western Wrestling Conference, with that league's six final members becoming Big 12 affiliates effective with the 2015–16 school year. Fresno State and Northern Iowa became affiliates in 2017–18.

See also

• List of Big Eight Conference champions – previous conference of 8 charter members of Big 12
• List of Southwest Conference champions – previous conference of 4 charter members of Big 12

Notes

Denotes shared title^†

References