Big 12 Conference

University of Texas at Austin playing football against Iowa State University

The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference that is part of the NCAA's Division I. It started when the Big 8 Conference joined together with four colleges from Texas that had been part of the Southwest Conference, and the first games in the Big 12 Conference were played in 1996.

This is a list of colleges and universities who play sports in the Big 12 Conference:

• Baylor University
• Iowa State University
• University of Kansas
• Kansas State University
• University of Missouri
• University of Oklahoma
• Oklahoma State University–Stillwater ("Oklahoma State")
• University of Texas at Austin ("Texas")
• Texas A&M University
• Texas Tech University

The conference membership will change in July 2012:

• Missouri and Texas A&M will join the Southeastern Conference.
• Texas Christian University ("TCU") will join the Big 12 from the Mountain West Conference.
• West Virginia University will join the Big 12 from the Big East Conference.

References

• "Big 12 Conference". big12sports.com. http://www.big12sports.com/. Retrieved 2008-06-28.