2012 Big 12 Football Schedule Officially Finalized

The Big 12 Conference has released their 2012 football schedule on Tuesday.

The release was pending the approval of the league's Directors of Athletics, but everything went through fine.

This is the first schedule to include Big 12 newcomers TCU and West Virginia, so the highly anticipated release has fans, players and coaches ready for action.

As in the past, the schedule is a 10-team, nine-game, round-robin style with dates and times subject to change to help with commitments to television partners. With TV selections coming by July 1, this will remain fluid until everything is finalized shortly after.

Week	Baylor	Iowa State	Kansas	Kansas State	Oklahoma
Sept. 15	bye	bye	TCU	bye	bye
Sept. 22	bye	bye	bye	at Oklahoma	Kansas State
Sept. 29	at West Virginia	Texas Tech	bye	bye	bye
Oct. 6	bye	at TCU	at Kansas State	Kansas	at Texas Tech
Oct.13	TCU	Kansas State	Oklahoma State	at Iowa State	vs. Texas *
Oct. 20	at Texas	at Oklahoma State	at Oklahoma	at West Virginia	Kansas
Oct. 27	at Iowa State	Baylor	Texas	Texas Tech	bye
Nov. 3	Kansas	Oklahoma	at Baylor	Oklahoma State	at Iowa State
Nov. 10	at Oklahoma	at Texas	at Texas Tech	at TCU	Baylor
Nov. 17	Kansas State	at Kansas	Iowa State	at Baylor	at West Virginia
Nov. 24	vs. Texas Tech ^	West Virginia	bye	bye	Oklahoma State
Dec. 1	Oklahoma State	bye	at West Virginia	Texas	at TCU
Week	Oklahoma State	TCU	Texas	Texas Tech	West Virginia
Sept. 15	bye	at Kansas	bye	bye	bye
Sept. 22	bye	bye	bye	bye	bye
Sept. 29	Texas	bye	at Oklahoma State	at Iowa State	Baylor
Oct. 6	bye	Iowa State	West Virginia	Oklahoma	at Texas
Oct. 13	at Kansas	at Baylor	vs. Oklahoma *	West Virginia	at Texas Tech
Oct. 20	Iowa State	Texas Tech	Baylor	at TCU	Kansas State
Oct. 27	TCU	at Oklahoma State	at Kansas	at Kansas State	bye
Nov. 3	at Kansas State	at West Virginia	at Texas Tech	Texas	TCU
Nov. 10	West Virginia	Kansas State	Iowa State	Kansas	at Oklahoma State
Nov. 17	Texas Tech	bye	bye	at Oklahoma State	Oklahoma
Nov. 24	at Oklahoma	at Texas	TCU	vs. Baylor ^	at Iowa State
Dec. 1	at Baylor	Oklahoma	at Kansas State	bye	Kansas

* Game played at Cotton Bowl Stadium; Dallas, Texas
^ Game Played at Cowboys Stadium; Arlington, Texas

What It Means

This is an exciting day for the Big 12 because this schedule looks as tough as almost anything the SEC—let alone any other conference—could come up with.

With the added talent from West Virginia and TCU making the road tougher for every program, the likelihood of a Big 12 team making the BCS National Title game this year has increased greatly.

This is also good for all of the college football fans and Big 12 fans that are missing college football. They can have a small taste of the fun in the dead of winter. That’s always a plus.

 What Happens Next

Everyone who loves college football will have their eyes all over this schedule, but the most important eyes will be the head coaches of the Big 12.

While the odds makers and Top-25 list builders get out there pencils and start roughing out preseason No. 1's, the coaches of the Big 12 realize the added talent in West Virginia and TCU just made their conference one of the toughest is the nation.

Add those teams to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas State and all the rest and you have a serious threat to the SEC supremacy over college football.

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