In the 23 completed seasons since the conference was formed, here's who has won the Big 12:
Oklahoma: 11 outright, 1 shared
Texas: 3 outright
Nebraska: 2 outright
Kansas State: 1 outright, 1 shared
Baylor: 1 outright, 1 shared
Oklahoma State: 1 outright
Texas A&M: 1 outright
Colorado: 1 outright
TCU: 1 shared
For all the great things Bill Snyder did in 27 seasons at K-State, he only won two conference titles. Mike Gundy, for all the success he's had at Oklahoma State, has one Big 12 title. Art Briles won two titles running a dirty program at Baylor. Mack Brown won two Big 12 titles the years Texas played for the national championship. Other than that, it's been pretty much all Oklahoma since the turn of the century.
We all want a "special season" with double digit wins and our first real conference championship. Yeah, we technically earned shared titles in 1911 and 1912, but that was a different era and we only played two conference games each year.
What's going to be best for Iowa State is if our level of success over the last few years continues over the long haul. I'm not worried about a special season as long as we can keep Matt Campbell. Those seasons will come. We could still have one this year. Two years ago we went into the Oklahoma game with a walk-on at QB and little hope of winning. We just hoped we could keep it respectable and eek out six wins on the year. Now we're going into Norman with a chance to still win the conference, the third straight season we've still been a legit contender in the Big 12 race in November.
Oklahoma: 11 outright, 1 shared
Texas: 3 outright
Nebraska: 2 outright
Kansas State: 1 outright, 1 shared
Baylor: 1 outright, 1 shared
Oklahoma State: 1 outright
Texas A&M: 1 outright
Colorado: 1 outright
TCU: 1 shared
For all the great things Bill Snyder did in 27 seasons at K-State, he only won two conference titles. Mike Gundy, for all the success he's had at Oklahoma State, has one Big 12 title. Art Briles won two titles running a dirty program at Baylor. Mack Brown won two Big 12 titles the years Texas played for the national championship. Other than that, it's been pretty much all Oklahoma since the turn of the century.
We all want a "special season" with double digit wins and our first real conference championship. Yeah, we technically earned shared titles in 1911 and 1912, but that was a different era and we only played two conference games each year.
What's going to be best for Iowa State is if our level of success over the last few years continues over the long haul. I'm not worried about a special season as long as we can keep Matt Campbell. Those seasons will come. We could still have one this year. Two years ago we went into the Oklahoma game with a walk-on at QB and little hope of winning. We just hoped we could keep it respectable and eek out six wins on the year. Now we're going into Norman with a chance to still win the conference, the third straight season we've still been a legit contender in the Big 12 race in November.
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