The 2018 Big 12 Conference football season represents the 23rd season of

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football, talking place during the

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. The season began with non-conference play on Thursday, August 30, 2018. Big 12 Conference play began on Saturday, September 22, 2018. The 2018 season will be the seventh for the Big 12 since the 2010–13 Big 12 Conference realignment brought the Big 12 membership to its current form. As a ten-team league, the Big 12 will play a nine-game round-robin conference schedule and each member will play three non-conference games-one of which must be against another Power Five conference foe. The regular season will be followed by a conference championship game played between the regular-season champion and regular-season runner-up. The 2018 Big 12 Championship Game was held on Saturday, December 1, 2018. Oklahoma defeated Texas 39–27 to win their 12th Big 12 Championship.

Background

Previous season

Preseason

Recruiting

Preseason poll

The 2018 Big12 Preseason media poll was announced on July 12, 2018, prior to the Big12 media days. The Big12 media days were held from July 16–17 in

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. Oklahoma was chosen to finish at the top of the standings for the third consecutive year in the 2018 Big 12 football preseason poll, voted on by media representatives. #

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(46) – 509 #

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(2) – 432 # TCU (1) – 390 #

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(1) – 370 # Oklahoma State – 300 # Kansas State (2) – 283 # Iowa State – 250 # Texas Tech – 149 # Baylor – 125 #

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– 52 *First place votes in ()

Preseason awards

2018 Preseason All-Big 12 *Offensive Player of the Year: Will Grier, West Virginia *Defensive Player of the Year:

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, TCU *Newcomer of the Year: Brendan Radley-Hiles, Oklahoma

Head coaches

Coaches

Schedule

Regular season

Week one

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Week two

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Week three

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Week four

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Week five

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Week six

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Week seven

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Week eight

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Week nine

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Week ten

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Week eleven

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Week twelve

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Week thirteen

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Week Fourteen

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Championship game

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Big 12 vs other conferences

Big 12 vs Power 5 matchups

This is a list of the non-conference games that Big-12 teams will play versus the power conference teams. They comprise teams from the ACC, Big 10, Pac-12 and SEC. In addition, although the NCAA does not consider BYU a "Power Five" school, the Big-12 does consider games against BYU as satisfying its "Power Five" scheduling requirement. All rankings are from the current AP Poll at the time of the game. (''Rankings from the AP Poll''):

Records against other conferences

2018 records against non-conference foes as of: 9/2/2018 Regular Season Post Season

Rankings

Postseason

Bowl games

Rankings are from AP Poll. All times Central Time Zone. ''* Rankings based on CFP rankings'' Selection of teams (7): Baylor, Iowa State,

, Oklahoma State, TCU,

Awards and honors

Player of the week honors

Postseason awards

2018 Consensus All-Americans The following Big 12 players were named to the 2017 College Football All-America Team by the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF),

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(AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), ''

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'' (SN), and American Football Coaches Association (AFCA): Ben Powers, OL, Oklahoma. Academic All-America Team Member of the Year ( CoSIDA)

2018 All-Big 12

*Offensive Player of the Year: Kyler Murray, QB,

*Defensive Player of the Year: David Long Jr., LB,

*Offensive Freshman of the Year: Pooka Williams Jr., RB,

*Defensive Freshman of the Year: Caden Sterns, DB,

*Offensive Lineman of the Year: Dalton Risner, Kansas State, Dru Samia, Oklahoma & Yodny Cajuste, West Virginia *Defensive Lineman of the Year:

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, Texas *Offensive Newcomer of the Year: Jalen Hurd, WR, Baylor *Defensive Newcomer of the Year: Greg Eisworth, DB, Iowa State *Special Teams Player of the Year: Austin Seibert, P/K, Oklahoma *Coach of the Year: Matt Campbell, Iowa State & Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma

All-Academic

First team Second team

National award winners

* Kyler Murray, QB, Oklahoma:

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Davey O'Brien Award The Davey O'Brien Award, officially the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award, named after Davey O'Brien, is presented annually to the collegiate American football player judged by the Davey O'Brien Foundation to be the best of all National C ...

, Manning Award, AP Player of the Year

Home game attendance

Bold – Exceed capacity
†Season High
‡ Record Stadium Attendance

References

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