7.2 National team titles by institution.4.1 Football championship game takes hiatus, returns in 2017.2.2 Women's sponsored sports by university.2.1 Men's sponsored sports by university.The conference has high name recognition and remains one of the Power Five conferences, the five highest-earning and most historically successful FBS football conferences Power Five conferences have provided nearly all participants in the College Football Playoff since its inception, are guaranteed at least one bid to a New Year's Six bowl game, and have been granted autonomy from certain NCAA rules. The Big 12 Conference, like others involved in the realignment, has kept its name primarily for marketing purposes. The Big 12 Conference then invited Brigham Young University, the University of Central Florida, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Houston all four schools will join in 2023. In 2021, Texas and Oklahoma announced plans to move to the SEC in 2025. Texas Christian University and West Virginia University joined from the Mountain West and Big East Conferences respectively to offset two of the departing universities, bringing the conference to its current strength. The conference's current ten campus makeup resulted from the 2010–2013 Big 12 Conference realignment, in which Nebraska joined the Big Ten Conference, Colorado joined the Pac-12, and Texas A&M and Missouri joined the Southeastern Conference. The eight members of the former Big Eight Conference joined with the Southwest Conference universities University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Baylor University and Texas Tech University to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996. The Big 12 Conference was founded in February 1994. Brett Yormark became the new commissioner on August 1, 2022. The Big 12 Conference is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Additionally, the Big 12 has 12 affiliate members - eight for the sport of wrestling, one for women's equestrianism, one for women's gymnastics and two for women's rowing. Its 10 members, in the states of Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia, include two private Christian universities and eight public universities. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. It is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports. It consists of ten full-member universities. The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas, USA.

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