Big 12 Miles Traveled Teams Ranked: Conference Goes European In 2026
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The Big 12 goes European in 2026. TCU faces North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland, on August 29 to begin Week 0 and the 2026 season. The Union Jack Classic, meanwhile, sees Arizona State play “host” Kansas on Sept. 19 at London’s Wembley Stadium. Those international games put ASU, TCU and KU atop our Big 12 Miles Traveled college football breakdown.
Arizona State leads the conference with 18,411 miles in round-trip travel. After the Sun Devils visit the UK, ASU takes a round-trip to Orlando to play UCF on Nov. 14. Overall, the 16 Big 12 teams travel 156,753 miles in 2026.
Kansas State carries the lightest travel load with just 5,510 miles.
Arizona – at 9761.3 miles – falls closest to the Big 12 average of 9,797 miles.
All 16 teams play nine conference games. Big 12 teams also play 13 non-conference games versus Power Four opponents and Notre Dame.
Big 12 Miles Traveled – All 16 Teams Ranked
Here the team-by-team breakdown of the miles traveled by each of the 16 Big 12 teams this season. The Big 12 Football Championship takes plays Friday, Dec. 4 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. That begins a new Friday-Saturday rotation to “enhance national exposure.”
Our computations are determined from stadium-to-stadium for each game. We measure our distance based on the coordinates of each stadium's site, as noted on Google Earth. We then use Vincenty's inverse formula, which considers the orbital shape of the Earth being flattened at its poles, to determine the one-way and round-trip distances. The calculations are performed by Claude AI.
Big 12 Schedule Includes Trad Matchups, Friday Games
The Big 12 continues to have multiple non-conference Power Four opponents on campuses this season
Those games are:
Sept. 5 - Boston College at Cincinnati
Sept. 11 - Missouri at Kansas
Sept. 12 – Oregon at Oklahoma State
Sept. 12 - Arkansas at Utah
Oct. 17 - Notre Dame at BYU
Conference play begins in Week 2. The Big 12 maintains multiple in-conference rivalries this year. Kansas and K-State meet for the 124th time at the Sunflower Showdown on Oct. 17. TCU plays at Baylor the same day.
BYU and Utah resume hostilities in their "Holy War" on Nov. 7 in Salt Lake City. Finally, Arizona and Arizona State play for the Territorial Cup – a trophy older than the state of Arizona, on Nov. 28 in Tucson.
Here’s a look at the non-Saturday games in the conference
Friday, Sept. 11 – Missouri at Kansas
Friday, Sept. 18 – Houston at Texas Tech
Friday, Oct. 9 – Iowa State at BYU
Friday, Oct. 30 – Baylor at UCF
Friday, Nov. 6 – TCU at Arizona
Friday, Nov. 13 – Houston at Colorado
Friday, Nov. 20 – Iowa State at UCF
Thursday, Nov. 26 – TCU at Texas Tech
Friday, Nov. 27 – West Virginia at Utah
Big 12 Travel Miles: Breaking Down Odds To Win Conference
Here are the odds to win the Big 12 from both DraftKings and Kalshi. Texas Tech returns as the favorite to repeat as Big 12 Conference Game champion this season. The chart lists each team's coach with his overall record.
Two Big 12 coaches - Morgan Scalley at Utah and Collin Klein of K-State - coach their first regular-season college games this season. Scalley coached the Utes in their Las Vegas Bowl 44-22 win over Nebraska.
The Red Raiders have wrestled with Brendan Sorsby’s status following his transfer from Cincinnati to Lubbock this past offseason. The QB Sorsby took an “immediate indefinite leave of absence” last month before entering a treatment program for a gambling addiction. Sorsby this week sought an injunction against the NCAA that would ensure his eligibility this season.
Before news of Sorsby’s gambling addiction and leave of absence, ESPN had the Red Raiders ranked No. 8 overall in its early preseason rankings.
Sorsby’s status hasn’t prevented oddsmakers from keeping the Red Raiders their top 10 picks to win the national title, or as the favorite to win the Big 12. DraftKings has Tech at +2000 to win the national championship. Traders on Kalshi have Tech with just a 3% chance to win the natty.
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