what teams are in the big 12

The Big 12 Conference is a member of the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports, and its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) . The conference was founded in February 1994, and all eight members of the former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference (Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech) to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996. Major membership changes came during the 2010–2013 Big 12 Conference realignment and still more changes came or will come during the 2021–2024 NCAA conference realignment. As of September 2021, the Big 12 has ten full members, including Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia, and the University of Texas at Austin. BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF will join the conference in 2023, bringing the total number of teams to twelve.