2010 Big 12 Championship Game

The 2010 Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship Game was played at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 4, 2010, at AT&T Stadium, then known as Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas to determine the 2010 football champion of the Big 12 Conference. At that time, it was the final championship game for the conference as two members of the Big 12 had announced their intentions to leave the conference. The South Division was represented by Oklahoma and the North Division was represented by Nebraska. Oklahoma defeated Nebraska 23-20 to win the final Big 12 Championship and claim their seventh Big 12 Title. It was Oklahoma's eighth appearance in the game.

For the Big 12 men's basketball championship, see 2010 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament.
2010 Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship Game
Conference Championship
Oklahoma Sooners Nebraska Cornhuskers
(10-2) (10-2)
23 20
Head coach: 
Bob Stoops		 Head coach: 
Bo Pelini
APCoachesBCS
1099
APCoachesBCS
131313
1234 Total
Oklahoma 01733 23
Nebraska 101000 20
DateDecember 4, 2010
Season2010
StadiumCowboys Stadium
LocationArlington, Texas
RefereeScott Novak
Attendance78,802
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC
AnnouncersBrent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit

2010 conference realignment impact
See also: 2010–13 Big 12 Conference realignment

From 2009 through 2013, the Big 12 Championship Game was scheduled to be played at the venue now known as AT&T Stadium.[1] 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.

Return of championship game in 2017

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.[2]

2010 Big 12 Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
Northern Division
No. 20 Nebraska xy  6 –2     10 –4  
No. 18 Missouri x  6 –2     10 –3  
Kansas State  3 –5     7 –6  
Iowa State  3 –5     5 –7  
Colorado  2 –6     5 –7  
Kansas  1 –7     3 –9  
Southern Division
No. 6 Oklahoma xy$  6 –2     12 –2  
No. 13 Oklahoma State x  6 –2     11 –2  
No. 19 Texas A&M x  6 –2     9 –4  
Baylor  4 –4     7 –6  
Texas Tech  3 –5     8 –5  
Texas  2 –6     5 –7  
Championship: Oklahoma 23, Nebraska 20
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • y – Championship game participant
Rankings from AP Poll

References
  1. "Big 12 Conference Concludes Spring Meetings; Future Championship Sites Approved For Football, Basketball". Big12sports.com: The Big 12 Conference Official Athletic Site. May 24, 2007. Retrieved June 21, 2010.
  2. "Big 12 To Conduct Football Championship; Revenue Figures Announced" (Press release). Big 12 Conference. June 3, 2016. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
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