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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football.It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) [2] by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, [2] University of Nebraska, and Washington University in ...
List of Big Eight Conference champions. The Big Eight Conference sponsored championships in 21 sports (11 men's and 10 women's) at various times during its existence from 1907 to 1996. [1] The conference began sponsoring women's sports in the mid-1970s under the direction of Assistant Commissioner Steven J. Hatchell.
The Big Eight Conference is a defunct college athletic conference that was formerly affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I-A (now known as FBS). The Big Eight Conference was a successful football conference, with its member schools being recognized as consensus national champion on eleven occasions ...
Headquarters. N/A, N/A. Region. Missouri Ozarks. The Big Eight Conference is an athletic conference comprising medium-size high schools located in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. The conference members are based around the Joplin and Springfield areas and are located in the counties of Barry, Barton, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, and Vernon.
$ – Conference champion; The Big 8 Conference mandated Oklahoma forfeits in three conference games, giving Nebraska the title. Oklahoma reverted this record at a later date; hence, both Oklahoma [2] and Nebraska [3] claim this title.
Kansas City, MO (1977–96) The Big Eight Conference was an NCAA athletic conference that existed from 1907 to 1996, when it and the Southwest Conference disbanded to create the Big 12 Conference. The post-season conference tournament was instituted in 1977 and from that time the winner won the conference's automatic NCAA tournament bid.
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This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. Colorado Buffaloes (15 C, 7 P) Iowa State Cyclones (19 C, 7 P) Kansas Jayhawks (16 C, 5 P) Kansas State Wildcats (16 C, 7 P) Missouri Tigers (16 C, 2 P) Nebraska Cornhuskers (20 C, 8 P) Oklahoma Sooners (17 C, 5 P) Oklahoma State Cowboys and Cowgirls ...