2017 Big 12 Championship Game

For the Big 12 men's basketball championship, see 2017 Big 12 men's basketball tournament.

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.^[2] 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.^[3] The game featured the top-seeded, Oklahoma Sooners and the second-seeded, TCU Horned Frogs.

2017 Big 12 Championship Game
16th Big 12 Championship Game
TCU Horned Frogs Oklahoma Sooners (10–2) (11–1) 17 41 Head coach:  Gary Patterson Head coach:  Lincoln Riley AP Coaches CFP 10 12 11 AP Coaches CFP 2 2 3
1 2 3 4 Total TCU 0 17 0 0 17 Oklahoma 17 7 17 0 41
Date	December 2, 2017
Season	2017
Stadium	AT&T Stadium
Location	Arlington, Texas
Favorite	Oklahoma by 7.5[1]
National anthem	The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band
Referee	Mike Defee
Attendance	64,104
United States TV coverage
Network	FOX/ESPN Radio
Announcers	Joe Davis, Brady Quinn, Bruce Feldman and Petros Papadakis (FOX) Marc Kestecher, Barrett Jones and Ian Fitzsimmons (ESPN Radio)
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2017 Big 12 Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 3 Oklahoma y$^		8	–	1					12	–	2
No. 9 TCU y		7	–	2					11	–	3
No. 14 Oklahoma State		6	–	3					10	–	3
Texas		5	–	4					7	–	6
West Virginia		5	–	4					7	–	6
Kansas State		5	–	4					8	–	5
Iowa State		5	–	4					8	–	5
Texas Tech		3	–	6					6	–	7
Baylor		1	–	8					1	–	11
Kansas		0	–	9					1	–	11
Championship: Oklahoma 41, TCU 17
^ – College Football Playoff participant $ – Conference champion y – Championship game participant Rankings from AP Poll

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.^[4]

Teams

TCU

Main article: 2017 TCU Horned Frogs football team

Oklahoma

Main article: 2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team

Game summary

2017 Big 12 Championship Game

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
No. 11 TCU	0	17	0	0	17
No. 3 Oklahoma	17	7	17	0	41

at AT&T Stadium • Arlington, Texas

• Date: December 2, 2017
• Game time: 11:00 a.m. CST
• Game weather: None (retractable roof closed)
• TV: Fox
• ESPN game summary

Game information
First quarter Second quarter Third quarter Fourth quarter

Statistics

Statistics	TCU	OKLA
First downs	20	22
Plays–yards	61-234	66-461
Rushes–yards	24-83	43-218
Passing yards	234	243
Passing: comp–att–int	27-37-1	15-23-0
Time of possession	24:41	35:19

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
TCU	Passing	Kenny Hill	27-37, 234 yds, 2 TD
	Rushing	Kenny Hill	13 car, 51 yds, 0 TD
	Receiving	John Diarse	5 rec, 1 TD
OKLA	Passing	Baker Mayfield	15-23, 243 yds, 4 TD
	Rushing	Rodney Anderson	24 car, 93 yds, 0 TD
	Receiving	Marquise Brown	7 rec, 58 yds, 2 TD