This year in BIG12 Football

• The Big 12 was home to the Heisman Trophy winner as Travis Hunter became the eighth player in Conference history to win college football’s most prestigious award.

• Big 12 champion Arizona State was the No. 4 seed in the College Football Playoff, earning a bye and a spot in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

• The Conference matched its record with nine teams selected for Bowl Season.

• Arizona State’s Peach Bowl match-up drew a TV audience of 17.3 million making it the second most-viewed bowl game outside of the semifinals and beyond.

• The All-Big 12 Valero Alamo Bowl saw BYU and Colorado play in the most-watched game in the bowl’s history with 8 million viewers.

• The Alamo Bowl and the Pop-Tarts Bowl (6.8 million viewers) gave the Big 12 the two most-watched bowl games outside of the CFP.

• The sold-out Alamo Bowl (64,261) and the Kinder’s Texas Bowl (59,940) gave the Big 12 the two most-attended bowl games outside of the CFP.

• The Big 12 was home to three consensus All-Americans in Colorado’s Travis Hunter, Arizona’s Tetairoa McMillan and West Virginia’s Wyatt Milum.

• Travis Hunter also won the Walter Camp Award (best player), Chuck Bednarik Award  (best defensive player), the Fred Biletnikoff Award (top wide receiver), Paul Hornung Award (most versatile) while also being named the AP’s National Player of the Year.

• FOX Big Noon Kickoff visited Big 12 campuses a Conference record five times in 2024.

• Arizona State, Baylor, BYU and Colorado gave the Big 12 four teams who posted single-year improvements of five or more wins this season.

• The Big 12 led the nation in fourth-quarter lead changes and go-ahead scores in the final minute of conference games.