The 2016 Big 12 Conference football season will represent the 21st season of Big 12 Conference football, taking place during the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season will begin with non-conference play on Friday, September 2, 2016, with Kansas State traveling to face Stanford. Big 12 Conference play will begin on Saturday, September 17, 2016, with Iowa State traveling to play TCU.
The 2016 season will be the fifth for the Big 12 since the 2010-13 Big 12 Conference realignment brought the Big 12 membership to its current form. The conference has ten members: Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech and West Virginia. The Big 12 is a Power Five conference under the College Football Playoff format, along with the ACC, the Big Ten, the Pac-12 and the SEC. As a 10-team league, the Big 12 will play a 9-game, round-robin conference schedule and each member will play 3 non-conference games-one of which must be against another Power Five conference foe. The conference championship will be awarded to the team with the highest conference winning percentage at the conclusion of league play. In the event of a tie atop the standings, the conference tiebreaker shall determine the champion.
The Big 12 Champion will earn a berth to the 2017 Sugar Bowl, to play the SEC Champion at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans,on January 2, 2017. If the Big 12 Champion or SEC Champion are selected for the College Football Playoff, then a replacement team from the league will be designated to represent its conference in the Sugar Bowl according to the league's rules.
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Preseason
Recruiting
- ESPN has not updated its class rankings since National Signing Day. In May-July, 2016, Baylor lost a significant number of signees as a result of the school's sexual assault scandal, which led to the firing of many university employees, including head coach Art Briles. Several of Baylor's top-ranked signees re-signed with other Big 12 schools, including Texas, TCU, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
Preseason poll
Preseason awards
2016 Preseason All-Big 12
- Offensive Player of the Year: Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma, QB
- Defensive Player of the Year: Malik Jefferson, Texas, LB
- Newcomer of the Year: Kenny Hill, TCU, QB
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Postseason
Big 12 teams that completed a 6-6 to 12-0 record were invited to participate in postseason bowl games. For 2016, the selection order was as follows:
- College Football Playoff (semifinals: Fiesta Bowl, Peach Bowl; championship: Tampa, Florida (Raymond James Stadium))^ - No Big 12 team selected
- Sugar Bowl - Oklahoma selected as Big 12 Champions
- New Year's Six at-large (Cotton Bowl)^ - No Big 12 team selected
- Alamo Bowl - Oklahoma State selected by virtue of 2nd-place finish in Big 12
- Russell Athletic Bowl - West Virginia selected by virtue of 3rd-place finish in Big 12
- Texas Bowl - Kansas State selected by virtue of 4th-place finish in Big 12
- Liberty Bowl - TCU selected by virtue of 5th-place finish in Big 12
- Cactus Bowl - Baylor selected by virtue of 6th-place finish in Big 12
- Armed Forces Bowl - Remaining Big 12 teams did not qualify
^Selection to the College Football Playoff Semifinals or a New Year's Six at-large bowl are discretionary and determined solely by the College Football Playoff Selection Committee.
Postseason awards
2016 Consensus All-Americans
2016 All-Big 12
- Offensive Player of the Year: Dede Westbrook, Oklahoma, WR
- Defensive Player of the Year: Jordan Willis, Kansas State, DE
- Offensive Newcomer of the Year: Justin Crawford, West Virginia, RB
- Defensive Newcomer of the Year: D.J. Reed, Kansas State, DB
- Special Teams Player of the Year: Michael Dickson, Texas, P
- Coach of the Year: Bob Stoops, Oklahoma
References
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