The Big 12 expands by 4 teams this season, adding Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah. 

But the West Virginia Mountaineers will travel the most of any college football team the 16-school conference in 2024. West Virginia is scheduled to travel 11137.58 linear miles, as measured from stadium to stadium by bookies.com via Google Earth. Newcomer Arizona State is second on the Big 12 Miles Traveled list. The Sun Devils are scheduled to travel 10025.68 miles.

Oklahoma State travels the fewest miles of any Big 12 football team this season. The Pokes travel 4380.14 miles in six road trips. 

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The longest Big 12 road trip this season occurs when Utah visits UCF, north of Orlando, on Black Friday. That linear round trip for the Utes is 3840.24 miles. The shortest linear road trip within the conference is BYU’s annual intra-state game against Utah. Rice-Eccles Stadium and LaVell Edwards Stadium are just 36.2 miles apart. Cincinnati plays at Miami of Ohio in a non-conference game on September 14. Their home stadiums are 29.22 miles from each other. 

The Big 12 joins the ACC, Big Ten, and SEC as one of college football’s new “Power Four” conferences following the demise of the Pac-12. With the absorption of 4 new football schools, the Big 12 also revised its conference schedule and how it is compiled. 

Team-By-Team Miles Traveled In Big 12

Here is the team-by-team breakdown of linear miles traveled by each football team in the Big 12, as measured by Google Earth from stadium-to-stadium compiled by bookies.com. Teams are listed by total miles traveled, along with the average mileage of each road trip, the total number of time zones crossed, and the longest and shortest road trips. 

Until the end of Daylight Savings Time on Nov. 3, 2024, the Big 12 will cover all four time zones in the Continental U.S. DST is not observed in much of Arizona. Technically, the state remains in the Mountain Time Zone. But until the end of DST, Tempe and Tucson are three hours behind their counterparts in the Eastern Time Zone. The time zones noted in our chart reflect the change at the time of the game. 

Team-By-Team Odds To Win Big 12

Here’s a breakdown of the odds each Big 12 team has to win the conference championship via BetMGM.

Big 12 Football Realignment Details 

Each Big 12 team will have either five or six road trips this season. Four Big 12 teams begin play on Aug. 29. TCU visits ACC newcomer Stanford on Aug. 30. 

There are no divisions within the conference. The top two teams with the best conference record will advance to the Big 12 Championship game on Dec. 7. Conference play begins in Week 3 when UCF visits TCU on September 14. Baylor and Utah, along with Arizona and Kansas State, play in non-conference games as part of their preexisting agreements.