New-look Big 12 releases complete 2024 football schedule
The full Big 12 Conference football schedule for the 2024 season is here. Notably, the conference is vastly different with expansion and the departure of Texas and Oklahoma.
With new teams in: Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State, this is not your father’s Big 12. But, it should make for an exciting fall this time around.
The full schedule can be seen below.
When talking about conference rankings, the SEC and Big Ten typically top the list. But Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark thinks he put the Big 12 right behind them, so he said back in September, amid expansion and the ever changing college landscape.
“We are cemented at No. 3 and moving up,” Yormark said while pointing toward the sky.
The Big 12’s new-look media deal is worth $2.28 billion with payouts of $31.7 million per school when it kicks in with the 2025 season. That would give the conference the third-highest payouts in the country behind the SEC’s contract that pays out $300 million per school beginning in 2024 and the Big Ten’s 7-year, $7 billion deal.
But beyond the media deals, the Big 12 will have 16 teams starting with the 2024 school year. Yormark inherited four additions in BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF, but landed his “dream scenario” by securing the “Four Corners” schools: Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah.
So this is what it is for 2024. As far as further expansion, Yormark didn’t commit to anything else, but left the door open back in October.
“There’s nothing imminent,” Yormark said. “But I do explore all options that come to me. And if it creates value for membership — both short and long-term — I’m gonna pursue it even further. But right now, we love the makeup and composition of this conference. Love the Four Corners that are joining us.
“They’ve already started to integrate the four schools. They’ve been attending meetings. We’re strategizing on what next year looks like. So there’s nothing imminent with respect to expansion.”