The 2018 Big 12 Championship Game is a college football game that will be played on Saturday, December 1, 2018, at AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. The 17th Big 12 Championship Game, it will determine the 2018 champion of the Big 12 Conference. The game will feature the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns This will be the tenth and sixth appearance respectively for Oklahoma and Texas in the conference championship game. Texas defeated Oklahoma 48–45 in their regular season meeting in the annual Red River Showdown. The game will also be the first time since 1903 that the two teams will play twice in the same season and the first time since 1929 that the game between the two is not played in the Cotton Bowl. The game will be televised nationally by ABC.
This will be the second time since 2010 that the conference champion will be determined in a championship game. Formerly the Big 12 Championship Game was played between the champions of the North Division and the South Division. Without a current Big 12 division structure, the game is played between the two teams with the best conference records.[2]
Previous season
The 2017 Big 12 Championship Game was the first since the conference's realignment. Televised nationally by Fox, the game featured the Oklahoma Sooners and the TCU Horned Frogs.[3] This was Oklahoma's ninth appearance and was TCU's first appearance. In the regular season, Oklahoma defeated TCU 38–20. In a rematch between the two teams, Oklahoma won the Big 12 Championship over TCU 41-17 for its 47th conference title.
