Texas was victorious by a score of 13–12, winning their third Big 12 Conference championship.
[2] From 2009 through 2013, the Big 12 Championship Game was scheduled to be played at the venue now known as AT&T Stadium.
[3] During June 2010, however, Nebraska and Colorado announced that they would leave the Big 12 for other conferences in 2011.
Because then-current NCAA rules required that a conference have 12 members in order to stage a football championship game that was exempt from the organization's limits on regular-season games, it was announced on September 30, 2010, that the Big 12 would no longer have a conference championship game, starting with the 2011 football season.
at AT&T Stadium • Arlington, Texas Following a January 2016 NCAA rule change that allows FBS conferences to conduct football championship games regardless of their membership numbers, the Big 12 announced that the championship game would be reinstated in 2017.