Big 12 Football Conference Betting Online
Although they are on their way out the door to join the SEC, Texas and Oklahoma are the favorites to win the Big 12 Conference in 2023. The Longhorns and Sooners have been seen as the juggernauts in the conference for some time, but while Oklahoma has lived up to the billing that hasn’t been the case for Texas. This program hasn’t won the Big 12 in over a decade, and the Longhorns have only won more than nine games in a season once since 2009. That makes it tough to buy into Texas as close to an odds-on favorite to win the conference despite the talent on the roster.
Big 12 Conference Current Champion: Kansas State Wildcats
Big 12 Championship Game: W 31-28 (OT) vs. TCU
Sugar Bowl: L 20-45 vs. Alabama
College Football Betting Lines
Texas +115
Oklahoma +350
Kansas State +500
Texas Tech +1200
Baylor +2000
TCU +2000
UCF +4000
Iowa State +4000
Kansas +5000
Oklahoma State +5000
Cincinnati +7500
West Virginia +8000
BYU +10000
Houston +12500
This is a huge year for Quinn Ewers and Texas. Ewers will be asked to do more under center with Bijan Robinson now in the NFL, and the run game is unlikely to be as good as it was last year. Texas does have some quality receivers on the perimeter, so it will be up to Ewers or perhaps true freshman Arch Manning to make the most of the weapons in this passing attack.
Oklahoma is in a make-or-break season under Brent Venables. The Sooners were the cream of the Big 12 under Lincoln Riley, but the team struggled mightily in its first season under new head coach Brent Venables. They went 6-6 in the regular season, and the defense did not improve as expected.
Big 12 Football Conference Format
After six years without a conference championship game, the Big 12 brought back the Big 12 Championship Game before the 2017 season. It was thought that this would help the conference send at least one representative to the College Football Playoff after both Baylor and TCU were left out of the four-team playoff in 2014. It turns out TCU didn’t need that boost to help make the CFP for the first time in 2023, as the Horned Frogs put together a magical season before being blasted by Georgia in the Big 12 Championship Game.
The 2023 season will be a unique one as Oklahoma and Texas play one last campaign before leaving for the SEC. Meanwhile, UCF, Houston, Cincinnati, and BYU will join the conference, bringing the total number of teams in the Big 12 to 14 squads.
The Big 12 Conference was originally a merger of the old Big 8 and four teams from the dissolved Southwestern Conference that began play in the fall of 1996. Those 12 teams were the original members of the Big 12, but we saw Texas A&M and Missouri join the SEC, Nebraska join the Big Ten, and Colorado join the Pac 12. Now, Oklahoma and Texas are on their way out, but four more teams are joining this conference in 2023.
Since its foundation in 1996, the Big 12 has been top-heavy. Oklahoma has won at least a share of the conference championship 14 times at the end of the 2020 season. Texas was supposed to battle with Oklahoma for conference supremacy, but the Longhorns have won the Big 12 just three times to this point and haven’t been the best team in the conference in more than a decade.
Currently, four of the Big 12’s ten teams have yet to win a conference championship. Iowa State, Kansas, Texas Tech, and West Virginia don’t have a Big 12 title to their names although each school has come close at least once since joining the league.
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