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Beginning July 1, 2025, the Big 12 Conference will be comprised of 12 universities – Baylor, BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, and West Virginia. The additions jump the Big 12 footprint from five states and 40.2 million people, to eight states with over 76.5 million total inhabitants.
Under the leadership of commissioner Bob Bowlsby, the Big 12 conference has seen 19 national championships and 144 NCAA individual event crowns. Twenty-one additional Conference squads finished as runner-up in NCAA competition. Ten teams have competed in College Football Playoff New Year’s Bowls in the six years of the structure with Oklahoma making the Conference’s first appearance in the CFP semifinals in 2015 and repeat showings in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The Big 12 is home of two of the last three Heisman Trophy winners with the selection of Oklahoma quarterbacks Baker Mayfield in 2017 and Kyler Murray in 2018. The Sooners’ Jalen Hurts finished as runner-up in 2019. The Big 12 was the only conference to place a team in the Final Four and CFP semifinals in both 2017-18 and 2018-19.