Week 1
- The Big 12 Conference will have all 16 of its programs in action in Week One, which features five games against Power 4 opponents. Those matchups include Auburn at Baylor, Nebraska vs. Cincinnati in Kansas City, Georgia Tech at Colorado, TCU at North Carolina and Utah at UCLA.
- Week One will showcase Big 12 teams in action throughout the week with games on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday.
- Saturday’s meeting between Arizona and Hawai’i will be the Big 12’s first game of its TNT Sports partnership. The game broadcast, studio coverage and feature storytelling will be featured on TNT, TruTV and HBO Max as well as Bleacher Report.
- The Conference opened the season with No. 22/21 Iowa State’s 24-21 win over No. 17/20 K-State in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland. The thrilling Conference game marked just the second time two ranked FBS teams have played on opening day since 2000.
- Kansas also defeated Fresno State 31-7 in Week 0 in front of a sellout crowd in the first game in reimagined David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
- Big 12 QB Club: The Big 12 has nine teams that return quarterbacks who threw for 2,400 yards or more last season, nearly twice the total of any other Power 4 conference. The Conference also bolstered its QB class with talented newcomers.
- The QB trio of ISU’s Rocco Becht, KU’s Jalon Daniels and K-State’s Avery Johnson combined for seven scores through the air and no interceptions, with a nation-leading aggregate passer rating of 165.6 in Week 0.
- 2025 marks the 30th season of Big 12 Football, which held its inaugural season in 1996.
Week 0
- Week 0 will feature a trio of Big 12 teams with No. 22 Iowa State and No. 17 Kansas State facing off on ESPN in Ireland in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic’s first-ever ranked matchup. Kansas will also welcome Fresno State in the first game in re-imagined David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on FOX.
- No. 22 Iowa State’s and No. 17 Kansas State’s game in Ireland is just the second nationally-ranked matchup in FBS on opening day since 2000.
- Big 12 QB Club: The Big 12 has nine teams that return quarterbacks who threw for 2,400 yards or more last season, nearly twice the total of any other Power 4 conference. The Conference also bolstered its QB class with talented newcomers.
- The Big 12 had more signal callers than any other conference in America on the Davey O’Brien and Manning Award Preseason Watch Lists.
- 2025 marks the 30th season of Big 12 Football, which held its inaugural season in 1996.
- The Big 12 will create excitement again this season after the Conference led the nation in 2024 in fourth-quarter lead changes and go-ahead scores in the final minute of conference games.
- The Big 12 Conference will publicly provide player availability reports for all Conference games this season, beginning with the Week 0 game between No. 22 Iowa State and No. 17 Kansas State.
- Tickets are now on sale for the Big 12 Football Championship Game, exclusively on SeatGeek. The game will feature a halftime performance by country music star Jon Pardi on Saturday, December 6 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on ABC.
