Now We Now Who Will Be in the Big 12 Starting in 2024 and Beyond

STILLWATER – It is not easy, trying to come up with a football schedule for a conference. There are considerations like geography, rivalries, making television partners happy with the best inventory. The Big 12 now knows that starting in the fall of 2024 that long-time members Oklahoma and Texas will be gone to the SEC. That will leave the “legacy eight” of Oklahoma State, West Virginia, Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, TCU, and Texas Tech with the new members of BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati, and Houston. 

The SEC with its’ 16 members is set to have three permanent opponents for each school and the other conference competition will rotate, likely on a two-year cycle. 

I’m proposing something different for the 12-member Big 12. I like familiarity, so with nine conference games assign each school a permanent seven opponents (rotating home and home) and then that would leave four schools for them to rotate every two years. They would play two of those home and home and then get the other two home and home. 

This allows each school to play a number of schools that fit either by geography or by previous history including some existing rivalries. It allows some potential new rivalries to get built up. 

Here is what we would do. Below each school are the assigned permanent opponents and on the last line are their rotating opponents abbreviations.