1996 Big 12 Championship Game

The 1996 Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship Game was held on December 7, 1996, at The Dome at America's Center, then known as Trans World Dome, in St. Louis, Missouri. The divisional winners from the Big 12 Conference squared off in the 1st edition of the game. The Texas Longhorns represented the South Division and the Nebraska Cornhuskers represented the North Division. Texas won the contest 37–27, keyed by a daring 4th down conversion from their own 28-yard line with slightly more than 2 minutes left in the 4th quarter when the score was 30–27 in their favor.

1996 Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship Game
Conference Championship
Nebraska Cornhuskers Texas Longhorns (10–1) (7–4) 27 37 Head coach:  Tom Osborne Head coach:  John Mackovic AP Coaches 3 3
1 2 3 4 Total Nebraska 7 10 7 3 27 Texas 7 13 3 14 37
Date	December 7, 1996
Season	1996
Stadium	Trans World Dome
Location	St. Louis, Missouri
MVP	DeAngelo Evans (RB Nebraska)
United States TV coverage
Network	ABC
Announcers	Brent Musburger and Dick Vermeil

1996 Big 12 Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Northern Division
No. 6 Nebraska x%		8	–	0					11	–	2
No. 8 Colorado		7	–	1					10	–	2
No. 17 Kansas State		6	–	2					9	–	3
Missouri		3	–	5					5	–	6
Kansas		2	–	6					4	–	7
Iowa State		1	–	7					2	–	9
Southern Division
No. 23 Texas x$		6	–	2					8	–	5
Texas Tech		5	–	3					7	–	5
Texas A&M		4	–	4					6	–	6
Oklahoma		3	–	5					3	–	8
Oklahoma State		2	–	6					5	–	6
Baylor		1	–	7					4	–	7
Championship: Texas 37, Nebraska 27
x – Division champion/co-champions $ – Bowl Alliance representative as champion % – Bowl Alliance at-large representative Rankings from AP Poll

Selection process

The Big 12 Championship Game matched up the winner of the North and South divisions of the Big 12 Conference. The game was first played in 1996,[1][2] when the conference was assembled to include all of the teams from the Big Eight Conference as well as four teams that had formerly been members of the Southwest Conference. The championship game was modeled on the SEC format, which was the first conference in college football to have a conference championship game.

Regular season

See also

• Nebraska–Texas football rivalry

References

1. Historical note
2. Historical note 2 Archived 2008-10-08 at the Wayback Machine