2017 Big 12 Conference football standings
vteConf.Overall
TeamWLWL
No. 3 Oklahoma y$^81122
No. 9 TCU y72113
No. 14 Oklahoma State63103
Texas5476
West Virginia5476
Kansas State5485
Iowa State5485
Texas Tech3667
Baylor18111
Kansas09111
Championship: Oklahoma 41, TCU 17
^ – College Football Playoff participant$ – Conference championy – Championship game participantRankings from AP Poll

The 2017 Big 12 Championship Game was a college football game played on Saturday, December 2, 2017, at AT&T Stadium, in Arlington. This was the 16th Big 12 Championship Game and determined the 2017 champion of the Big 12 Conference. This was the first year of the current division-less format of the game; instead of representatives from two divisions, the two teams with the best conference records earned a spot in the game. The game featured the top-seeded, Oklahoma Sooners and the second-seeded, TCU Horned Frogs.

Background

In the 2010 Big 12 Championship Game, the South Division was represented by Oklahoma and the North Division was represented by Nebraska. Oklahoma defeated Nebraska, 23–20, to claim their seventh Big 12 title.

The 2010–2013 realignment of the conference left the Big 12 with ten members, and NCAA regulations at the time required a conference to have at least 12 members in order to hold an "exempt" championship game that did not count against the limit of 12 regular-season contests for FBS teams. The Big 12 thus used its regular season in-conference results to determine the conference champion.

Following a January 2016 NCAA rule change that allows FBS conferences to conduct exempt football championship games regardless of their membership numbers, the Big 12 announced that the championship game would be reinstated in 2017.

Teams

TCU

Oklahoma

Game summary

Quarter1234Total
No. 11 TCU0170017
No. 3 Oklahoma17717041

at AT&T StadiumArlington, Texas

Game information
First quarter Second quarter Third quarter Fourth quarter

Statistics

StatisticsTCUOKLA
First downs2022
Plays–yards61-23466-461
Rushes–yards24-8343-218
Passing yards234243
Passing: comp–att–int27-37-115-23-0
Time of possession24:4135:19
TeamCategoryPlayerStatistics
TCUPassingKenny Hill27-37, 234 yds, 2 TD
RushingKenny Hill13 car, 51 yds, 0 TD
ReceivingJohn Diarse5 rec, 1 TD
OKLAPassingBaker Mayfield15-23, 243 yds, 4 TD
RushingRodney Anderson24 car, 93 yds, 0 TD
ReceivingMarquise Brown7 rec, 58 yds, 2 TD

External links

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