2010 Big 12 Championship Game

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2010 Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship Game
15th Big 12 Conference Championship
1234Total
Oklahoma0173323
Nebraska10100020
DateDecember 4, 2010
Season 2010
Stadium Cowboys Stadium
Location Arlington, Texas
Referee Scott Novak
Attendance78,802
United States TV coverage
Network ABC
Announcers Brent Musburger and Kirk Herbstreit
Big 12 Championship Game
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2010 Big 12 Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
North Division
No. 20 Nebraska xy  6 2   10 4  
No. 18 Missouri x  6 2   10 3  
Kansas State  3 5   7 6  
Iowa State  3 5   5 7  
Colorado  2 6   5 7  
Kansas  1 7   3 9  
South Division
No. 6 Oklahoma xy$  6 2   12 2  
No. 13 Oklahoma State x  6 2   11 2  
No. 19 Texas A&M x  6 2   9 4  
Baylor  4 4   7 6  
Texas Tech  3 5   8 5  
Texas  2 6   5 7  
Championship: Oklahoma 23, Nebraska 20
  • $ BCS representative as conference champion
  • x Division champion/co-champions
  • y Championship game participant
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2010 Big 12 Championship Game was a college football game played on Saturday, December 4, 2010, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. This was the 15th Big 12 Championship Game and determined the 2010 champion of the Big 12 Conference. [1] The game featured the Nebraska Cornhuskers, champions of the North division, and the Oklahoma Sooners, champions of the South division. Sponsored by soft drink brand Dr Pepper, the game is officially known as the Dr Pepper Big 12 Championship Game.

Contents

Previous season

The 2009 Big 12 Championship Game featured Nebraska, champions of the North division against Texas, champions of the South division. The game was the third championship tilt between the Cornhuskers and Longhorns. Unranked Texas upset No. 3 Nebraska 37–27 in the inaugural Big 12 title game in St. Louis, while No. 2 Nebraska beat No. 12 Texas 22–6 in 1999 in San Antonio. Texas was victorious by a score of 13–12, winning their third Big 12 Conference championship. [2]

2010 conference realignment impact

From 2009 through 2013, the Big 12 Championship Game was scheduled to be played at the venue now known as AT&T Stadium. [3] During June 2010, however, Nebraska and Colorado announced that they would leave the Big 12 for other conferences in 2011. Because then-current NCAA rules required that a conference have 12 members in order to stage a football championship game that was exempt from the organization's limits on regular-season games, it was announced on September 30, 2010, that the Big 12 would no longer have a conference championship game, starting with the 2011 football season.

Teams

Nebraska

Oklahoma

Game summary

2010 Big 12 Championship Game
Period1234Total
No. 9 Oklahoma0173323
No. 13 Nebraska10100020

at AT&T StadiumArlington, Texas

Game information
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter

Statistics

StatisticsOKLANEB
First downs1913
Plays–yards
Rushes–yards
Passing yards
Passing: comp–att–int
Time of possession17:2019:39
TeamCategoryPlayerStatistics
OklahomaPassing Landry Jones
Rushing DeMarco Murray
Receiving Kenny Stills
NebraskaPassing Taylor Martinez
Rushing Roy Helu
Receiving Mike McNeill

Return of championship game in 2017

Following a January 2016 NCAA rule change that allows FBS conferences to conduct football championship games regardless of their membership numbers, the Big 12 announced that the championship game would be reinstated in 2017. [4]

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