Big 12

Get to know the revamped Big 12: Four facts each for four new members

There's so much to learn about the four new Big 12 schools beyond the nuances of their football and men's basketball programs. While there will certainly be no shortage of commentary in the months and years to come about how BYU, Cincinnati, Central Florida and Houston match up against Kansas ...

Surveying the Big 12’s newest men’s basketball squads

It's easy to forget with the near-daily developments in the conference-realignment news cycle, but Kansas hasn't actually had a new league opponent for 11 years, since TCU and West Virginia first joined the Big 12 back in 2012. It will therefore be a significant adjustment for KU to have four ...

14-team Big 12 will yield one odd year of scheduling

The Big 12 Conference has for years neither been especially big nor contained 12 schools. From 2012 until now it survived with just 10, a number that made it one of the smallest leagues in the Football Bowl Subdivision. As a result of a move nearly two years in the making, however, it will ...

If Colorado returns to Big 12, it would bring plenty of history

In a world of increasingly outlandish conference realignment rumors — many of which, indeed, seem totally ridiculous until they come to fruition — the latest bit of gossip to take the nation by storm has a refreshing familiarity. The University of Colorado has been floated, discussed and ...

Big 12 reaches agreement with Oklahoma and Texas for early withdrawal

Barring any future nonconference scheduling arrangements, the Kansas football program has played its last home game against the Texas Longhorns. And on Oct. 28, during Week 8 of the 2023 season, the Jayhawks will play their final home football game against the Oklahoma Sooners, as well. ...

Kansas football ready to welcome Texas to town for home finale

It remains to be seen if this season’s Kansas-Texas football game will bring with it the same kind of excitement as last season’s 57-56 overtime win by KU in Austin, Texas. But for the Jayhawks, the 2021 game has proven to be the gift that keeps on giving. Not only did that win ...