Big 12 title game staying at home of Cowboys through 2025
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Massive 12 championship sport will stay on the residence of the Dallas Cowboys by means of a minimum of 2025, the season after Texas and Oklahoma are set to go away for the Southeastern Convention.
The contract extension introduced Wednesday means the primary 9 video games for the reason that return of the Massive 12 title sport in 2017 shall be at 80,000-seat AT&T Stadium. The announcement got here throughout Commissioner Brett Yormark’s first official week on the job.
The Massive 12 didn’t have a championship sport from 2011-16 after realignment lowered the league to 10 groups. The convention introduced the title sport again regardless of its round-robin regular-season schedule, believing the additional sport would assist get the league champion into the School Soccer Playoff.
If Texas and Oklahoma don’t depart early for the SEC, the Massive 12 is about to incorporate 14 groups for 2 seasons in 2023-24 with the additions of Cincinnati, Houston, BYU and UCF.
The Massive 12 might increase once more earlier than then with uncertainty surrounding the Pac-12 following the defections of Southern California and UCLA to the Massive Ten. These colleges are set to make the change in 2024.
After the Massive 12 launched in 1996, the primary 13 championship video games rotated among the many residence stadiums of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, Houston Texans and St. Louis Rams together with the previous residence of the Cowboys within the Dallas suburb of Irving.
AT&T Stadium has been the one website for the title sport since 2009, an association much like the Massive 12 basketball event and its Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, residence. The boys’s and ladies’s tournaments have been in Kansas Metropolis since 2010 and can keep a minimum of by means of 2027.
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