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College Football - Big 12 Conference
History - Important facts - Teams - Winners
The Big 12 celebrates its 11th anniversary season of competition in 2006-07. While there have been many proud accomplishments in the first ten years of the conference, the league and its members are also excited and poised for a bright future.
Eight football squads have played in BCS bowls in the last six seasons. The Big 12 leads all conferences with four appearances in the National Championship game. The winner of the Big 12 college football championship game earns the league's berth into the prestigious Bowl Championship Series.
The Big 12 is under the direction of its third commissioner, Kevin L. Weiberg, who took over the reigns in December 1998. Under Weiberg's guidance, the league distributed over $105 million to its member institutions for the 2004-05 academic year, nearly doubling the first allocation of $54 million in the conference's inaugural 1996-97 campaign.
Weiberg has also helped lead the Big 12 into additional football bowl agreements and expanded television opportunities for all sports through contracts with ABC/ESPN, FSN, TBS and CSTV.
Like most college football teams in the Big 12 there are many rivalries among its member schools. Most of the rivalries have existed since before the Big Eight and Southwest Conferences merged. The Texas-Oklahoma rivalry is especially notable, as it was a major rivalry decades before the two schools were in the same conference. Some of the many football rivalries involving Big 12 schools include Nebraska vs. Oklahoma, Iowa State vs. Missouri, Missouri vs. Kansas, Kansas vs. Kansas State, Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State, Baylor vs. Texas A&M, Texas vs. Oklahoma.
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