2024 Big 12 Conference football season

The 2024 Big 12 Conference football season will be the 29th season of the Big 12 Conference football taking place during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season.

The 2024 season is the first season for the Big 12 to have 16 members, with the departure of Oklahoma and Texas, the return of Colorado after a 13-season absence, and the addition of Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah. The 2024 Big 12 Championship Game will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on December 7, 2024, between the two highest finishing teams in the conference.

Previous season
The Texas Longhorns defeated the Oklahoma State Cowboys 49–21 in the Big 12 championship.

Nine teams participated in bowl games, finishing with a record of 5–4. Texas Tech defeated California 34–14 in the Independence Bowl. UCF lost to Georgia Tech 30–17 in the Gasparilla Bowl. Kansas defeated UNLV 49–36 in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. West Virginia defeated North Carolina 30–10 in the Duke's Mayo Bowl. No. 20 Oklahoma State defeated Texas A&M 31–23 in the Texas Bowl. No. 25 Kansas State defeated No. 18 NC State 28–19 in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. No. 12 Oklahoma lost to No. 14 Arizona 38–24 in the Alamo Bowl. Iowa State lost to Memphis 36–26 in the Liberty Bowl. No. 3 Texas made the 2024 College Football Playoffs; they lost to No. 2 Washington 37–31 in the Sugar Bowl.

Big 12 media days
The 2024 Big 12 media days are currently be held at Allegiant Stadium on July 9-10 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The teams and representatives in respective order were as follows:

Tuesday July 9
 * Big 12 Commissioner – Brett Yormark
 * Arizona State – Kenny Dillingham (HC), Xavion Alford (DB), Leif Fautanu (OL), Cameron Skattebo (RB) & Clayton Smith (DL)
 * Cincinnati – Scott Satterfield (HC), Derrick Canteen (DB), Mason Fletcher (P), Corey Kiner (RB) & Luke Kandra (OL)
 * Iowa State – Matt Campbell (HC), Beau Freyler (DB), Jayden Higgins (WR), Jaylin Noel (WR) & J.R. Singleton (DL)
 * Kansas State – Chris Klieman (HC), Avery Johnson (QB), Hadley Panzer (OL), Austin Moore (LB), Brendan Mott (DE) & Marques Sigle (DB)
 * Oklahoma State – Mike Gundy (HC), Alan Bowman (QB), Ollie Gordon II (RB), Nick Martin (LB) & Collin Oliver (LB)
 * TCU – Sonny Dykes (HC), Jack Bech (WR), Caleb Fox (DL), Josh Hoover (QB), Mike Nichols (OL) & Namdi Obiazor (LB)
 * Texas Tech – Joey McGuire (HC), Tahj Brooks (RB), Behren Morton (QB), Bryce Ramirez (LB), Jacob Rodriguez (LB) & Caleb Rodgers (OL)
 * Utah – Kyle Whittingham (HC), Brant Kuithe (TE), Karene Reid (LB), Cameron Rising (QB) & Junior Fafuna (DT)

Wednesday July 10
 * Big 12 Commissioner – Brett Yormark
 * Arizona – Brent Brennan (HC), Noah Fifita (QB), Gunner Maldonado (DB), Jacob Manu (LB) & Tetairoa McMillan (WR)
 * Baylor – Dave Aranda (HC), Ketron Jackson (WR), Matt Jones (LB), Richard Reese (RB), Keaton Thomas (LB) & Carl Williams IV (DB)
 * BYU – Kalani Sitake (HC), Tyler Batty (DE), Connor Pay (OL), Jakob Robinson (DB), Darius Lassiter (WR) & Chase Roberts (WR)
 * UCF – Gus Malzahn (HC), KJ Jefferson (QB), RJ Harvey (RB), Kobe Hudson (WR), Lee Hunter (DT) & Deshawn Pace (LB)
 * Colorado – Deion Sanders (HC), Shedeur Sanders (QB), Shilo Sanders (DB), Travis Hunter (ATH) & Mark Vassett (P)
 * Houston – Willie Fritz (HC), Tank Jenkins (OL), Latrell McCutchin Sr. (DB), Jamal Morris (LB) & Donovan Smith (QB)
 * Kansas – Lance Leipold (HC), Jalon Daniels (QB), Mello Dotson (DB), Devin Neal (RB) & Jereme Robinson (DE)
 * West Virginia – Neal Brown (HC), Aubrey Burks (DB), Garrett Greene (QB), Sean Martin (DL) & Wyatt Milum (OL)

Preseason poll
The preseason poll was released on July 2, 2024.


 * First place votes in

All−American Teams
Sources:

Preseason All-Big 12 teams
2024 Preseason All-Big 12

Source:


 * Offensive Player of the Year: Ollie Gordon II, RB, Oklahoma State, Jr.
 * Defensive Player of the Year: Travis Hunter, DB, Colorado, Jr.
 * Newcomer of the Year: KJ Jefferson, QB, UCF, Sr.

Coaching changes
There were two coaching changes before the 2024 season. On December 3, 2023, Houston hired Tulane head coach Willie Fritz as the 16th head coach in Cougars history. Then, on January 14, 2024, Arizona head coach Jedd Fisch was announced as the new head coach at Washington, following Kalen DeBoer's departure to replace the retiring Nick Saban at Alabama. Two days later, Arizona announced Brent Brennan, previously head coach at San Jose State, as the 31st head coach in school history.

Coaches
Note: All stats current through the completion of the 2023 season

Schedule
All times Central time.

† denotes Homecoming game

Rankings reflect those of the AP poll for weeks 1 through 9. Rankings from Week 10 until the end of the Season reflect those of the College Football Playoff Rankings.

Week Two
Notes: ‡ game is being played as a non-conference game and will not count towards conference standings

Week Three
Notes: ‡ game is being played as a non-conference game and will not count towards conference standings

Bowl games
For the 2024 bowl cycle, The Big 12 has yet announce how bowl tie ins will work with conference expansion. The four former Pac-12 Conference teams: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado & Utah will have previous conference tie-ins to the Alamo Bowl, Independence Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, LA Bowl and Sun Bowl.

Rankings are from CFP rankings. All times Central Time Zone. Big-12 teams shown in bold.

Head to head matchups
Source: Updated with the results of .

Does not include Non-Conference matchups between Arizona vs. Kansas State and Baylor vs. Utah.

Big 12 vs Power 5 matchups
This is a list of the Power Five conferences teams (ACC, Big Ten, Notre Dame Pac-12 and SEC).

Big 12 vs Group of Five matchups
The following games include Big 12 teams competing against teams from The American, CUSA, MAC, Mountain West or Sun Belt.

Big 12 vs FCS matchups
The Football Championship Subdivision comprises 13 conferences and two independent programs.

Note:† Denotes Neutral Site Game

Big 12 vs other conferences
Regular Season

Post Season

Television Selections
The Big 12 Conference has television contracts with ESPN and FOX, which allow games to be broadcast across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, FOX, FS1 and FS2. Streaming broadcasts for games under Big 12 control are streamed on ESPN+. Games under the control of other conferences fall under the contracts of the opposing conference.

Big 12 individual awards
The following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the Big 12 Conference coaches at the end of the season.

All-Americans
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. The system consists of three points for a first-team honor, two points for second-team honor, and one point for third-team honor. Honorable mention and fourth team or lower recognitions are not accorded any points. College Football All-American consensus teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named first team consensus all-American. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine Consensus and Unanimous All-Americans. Any player named to the First Team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is deemed a Unanimous All-American.

List of All American Teams

 * 2024 AFCA All-America Team
 * 2024 Associated Press All-America Team
 * 2024 CBS Sports All-America Team
 * 2024 ESPN All-America Team
 * 2024 FWAA All-America Team
 * 2024 Fox Sports All-America Team
 * 2024 The Athletic All-America Team
 * Sporting News 2024 College Football All-America Team
 * Sports Illustrated 2024 All-America Team
 * USA Today 2024 All-America Team
 * Walter Camp Football Foundation 2024 All-America Team
 * 2024 PFF College All-America team
 * 2024 Athlon Sports College Football's Postseason All-America Team
 * 2024 Phil Steele’s Postseason All-America Team
 * 2024 CFN All-American College Football Team and Individual Honors

All-conference teams
The following players earned All-Big 12 honors. Any teams showing (_) following their name are indicating the number of All-Big 12 Conference Honors awarded to that university for 1st team and 2nd team respectively.

Source:

First Team

Second Team

Notes:
 * RS = Return Specialist
 * AP/ST = All-Purpose/Special Teams Player (not a kicker or returner)
 * † Two-time first team selection;
 * ‡ Three-time first team selection

Honorable mentions
 * Arizona:
 * Arizona State:
 * Baylor:
 * BYU:
 * Cincinnati:
 * Colorado:
 * Houston:
 * Iowa State:
 * Kansas:
 * Kansas State:
 * Oklahoma State:
 * TCU:
 * Texas Tech:
 * UCF:
 * Utah:
 * West Virginia:

Home game announced attendance
Bold – at or exceeded capacity † Season high ‡ Record stadium Attendance