DALLAS (AP) – The Big 12 Conference reaffirmed its decision to press on with college football and other fall sports Wednesday, joining the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences in taking the field amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The move came one day after the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced they would not be participating this fall. There is a chance the other two Power Five leagues will push their seasons to the spring, but that remains to be determined.
In the meantime, the Big 12 board of directors approved a plan to begin fall sports after Sept. 1 with football playing a schedule in which each team can play one non-conference game before league play begins Sept. 26. The schools will all play each other to give them 10 total games with the Big 12 title game scheduled for Dec. 12.
“The virus continues to evolve and medical professionals are learning more with each passing week,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in a statement. “We are comfortable in our institutions’ ability to provide a structured training environment, rigorous testing and surveillance, hospital quality sanitation and mitigation practices that optimize the health and safety of our student-athletes. We believe all of this combines to create an ideal learning and training situation.”
Big 12 Football Schedule for 2020 Season:
Saturday, 9/26/20:
Kansas at Baylor
Iowa State at TCU
Kansas State at Oklahoma
West Virginia at Oklahoma State
Texas at Texas Tech
Saturday, 10/3/20:
Baylor at West Virginia
Oklahoma at Iowa State
Texas Tech at Kansas State
TCU at Texas
Oklahoma State at Kansas
Saturday, 10/10/20:
Oklahoma vs. Texas (at Cotton Bowl – Dallas, TX)
Texas Tech at Iowa State
Kansas State at TCU
Saturday, 10/17/20:
Oklahoma State at Baylor
Kansas at West Virginia
Saturday, 10/24/20:
Baylor at Texas
Iowa State at Oklahoma State
Kansas at Kansas State
Oklahoma at TCU
West Virginia at Texas Tech
Saturday, 10/31/20:
TCU at Baylor
Iowa State at Kansas
Kansas State at West Virginia
Oklahoma at Texas Tech
Texas at Oklahoma State
Saturday, 11/7/20:
Baylor at Iowa State
Kansas at Oklahoma
Oklahoma State at Kansas State
Texas Tech at TCU
West Virginia at Texas
Saturday, 11/14/20:
Baylor at Texas Tech
TCU at West Virginia
Saturday, 11/21/20:
Kansas State at Iowa State
Texas at Kansas
Oklahoma State at Oklahoma
Saturday, 11/28/20:
Kansas State at Baylor
Iowa State at Texas
TCU at Kansas
Texas Tech at Oklahoma State
Oklahoma at West Virginia
Saturday, 12/5/20:
Baylor at Oklahoma
West Virginia at Iowa State
Texas at Kansas State
Oklahoma State at TCU
Kansas at Texas Tech
DR PEPPER BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (12/12 or 12/19)
