The Big 12 saw a team make the College Football Playoff in 2022 and 2023, with TCU and Texas accomplishing that feat in consecutive years. This season, Texas is gone along with Oklahoma, while some new teams have stepped in to take their place. Here, we take a look at the 2024 Big 12 championship betting odds and break down the field as this conference looks to produce another playoff participant.
Big 12 Football Championship Odds
| Team | Big 12 Championship Odds |
| Iowa State | +400 |
| Kansas State | +400 |
| Utah | +400 |
| Arizona | +550 |
| UCF | +1200 |
| Texas Tech | +1200 |
| West Virginia | +1400 |
| BYU | +1600 |
| Colorado | +1800 |
| TCU | +2500 |
| Oklahoma State | +4000 |
| Cincinnati | +6000 |
| Arizona State | +8000 |
| Kansas | +25000 |
| Baylor | +40000 |
| Houston | +50000 |
In the 2023 college football season, the Texas Longhorns blew out the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the Big 12 championship game to reach the College Football Playoff. There, the Longhorns lost to the Washington Huskies in the semifinals. But this year, Texas and Oklahoma are off to the SEC, leaving this conference without the two teams that have defined it for so many years on the football field.
As a result, the Big 12 is wide open. The Utah Utes were the favorites to win the conference early in the year, but injury problems surrounding quarterback Cam Rising have stunted their growth as a team. They are still among the favorites to win the conference, but schools like Iowa State and Kansas State have also worked their way into what has become a group of favorites in a highly-competitive conference.
Early this season in Big 12 play, we have already seen some significant results impact the chances of teams to win this league. The Oklahoma State Cowboys saw their odds to win the Big 12 negatively impacted by losing to Utah and Kansas State, while Utah and Kansas State have suffered losses of their own.
The other new faces in the Big 12 this year along with Utah are Arizona, Arizona State, and Colorado. A disproportionate amount of attention will be paid to Colorado thanks to their attention-seeking head coach Deion Sanders. But Arizona may be the best addition to this league from a football standpoint outside of Utah, thanks to the dynamic play of wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan.
Big 12 Championship Betting & Handicapping
This college football season, the key to handicapping the Big 12 is going to be projecting how teams match up against one another that have not seen each other much in the past. Conference play will feature a lot of games that would have been non-conference matchups just a season or two ago. Because of that, we don’t have a lot of reference points when it comes to determining how teams will fare against one another, but that will change in the near future.
It will also be very important for bettors not to get sucked into the Colorado hype vortex again this season. When the Buffaloes went 3-0 against lackluster non-conference opponents to start the season in 2023, sportsbooks were hanging updated season win totals of 6.5 games. That was, of course, ridiculous in hindsight and bettors should know better than to fall for any of that nonsense again even if Deion Sanders used to be really cool when they were growing up.
Big 12 Championship History
| Year | Big 12 Champion |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Texas |
| 2022 | Kansas State |
| 2021 | Baylor |
| 2020 | Oklahoma |
| 2019 | Oklahoma |
| 2018 | Oklahoma |
| 2017 | Oklahoma |
| 2010 | Oklahoma |
| 2009 | Texas |
| 2008 | Oklahoma |
| 2007 | Oklahoma |
| 2006 | Oklahoma |
| 2005 | Texas |
| 2004 | Oklahoma |
| 2003 | Kansas State |
| 2002 | Oklahoma |
Big 12 Championship Wins
| All Time Wins | Big 12 Team | Last Yr Won |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | Oklahoma | 2020 |
| 4 | Texas | 2023 |
| 3 | Baylor | 2021 |
| 3 | Kansas State | 2022 |
| 1 | TCU | 2014 |
| 1 | Oklahoma State | 2011 |
| 0 | West Virginia | — |
| 0 | Texas Tech | — |
| 0 | Kansas | — |
| 0 | Iowa State | — |
