Who is in the Big 12? How many schools are in the Big 12?

Conference realignment has changed the landscape of college sports yet again.

The 2024-25 season is the first without the Pac-12 as a Power Five conference. Most of its member institutions departed for the Big Ten and the Big 12. That leaves major college football with four “power conferences”: Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and ACC.

The Big 12 added four teams from the now-defunct Pac-12 — Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah — for this season. That comes after Texas and Oklahoma left the conference and Houston and UCF joined.

It isn’t the first time in the past quarter century that there has been a shuffling. Between 2010-13, the Big 12 lost four members and gained two others. Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri and Texas A&M left; TCU and West Virginia joined. Colorado has now rejoined.

The moves have many questioning which schools are actually part of the Big 12.

Who is in the Big 12?

Big 12 members for 2024-25, including when they began competing in the conference.

Arizona (2024)

Arizona State (2024)

Baylor (1996)

BYU (2023)

Cincinnati (2023)

Colorado (1996, 2024)

Houston (2023)

Iowa State (1996)

Kansas (1996)

Kansas State (1996)

Oklahoma State (1996)

TCU (2012)

Texas Tech (1996)

UCF (2023)

Utah (2024)

West Virginia (2012)

How many teams are in the Big 12?

There are currently 16 members of the Big 12 Conference.

The conference had 14 member institutions a year ago. That included Texas and Oklahoma, but those two departed for the SEC. The addition of the four former Pac-12 programs brings it to 16.

Who joined the Big 12 conference in 2024?

Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah officially joined the Big 12 Conference in August.

The four programs were members of the Pac-12 Conference, which collapsed when USC and UCLA departed for the Big Ten. Soon after, Washington and Oregon also joined the Big Ten, followed by Stanford and California to the…

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Author : AZCentral | The Arizona Republic

Publish date : 2024-09-06 20:20:30

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