Big 12 football will soon kick off its biggest shakeup year in 27 seasons of operation with the addition of four new teams and with the Texas and Oklahoma football programs on their way out after the 2023 season.
Since the 2011 season, when original Big 12 members Nebraska and Colorado left to join the Big Ten and Pac-12, respectively, the Big 12 has operated two short of its original 12-school structure. That number jumps to 14 in 2023 with Houston, Cincinnati, BYU and UCF joining as new members.
As a result, the Big 12 has abandoned in balanced conference schedule in which, for the past dozen years, every team played every other team in a complete round-robin format.