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Ranking the Big 12 football championship games


Ranking the 14 Big 12 championship games:

1. 1998: Texas A&M 36, Kansas State 33, at St. Louis. Branndon Stewart threw two TD passes as the Aggies rallied from a 15-point deficit to win in overtime and keep Wildcats out of national title game.

2. 2009: Texas 13, Nebraska 12, at Arlington, Texas. First, the Huskers won. Then one second was put back on the clock, and Hunter Lawrence kicked a 46-yard field goal to put Texas in the national title game.

3. 1996: Texas 37, Nebraska 27, at St. Louis. Roll Left. On fourth-and-1 from its own 28-yard line, leading 30-27, Texas didn't punt. Quarterback James Brown threw to a wide open Derek Lewis for a 61-yard gain.

4. 2000: Oklahoma 27, Kansas State 24, at Kansas City. Josh Heupel's 17-yard TD pass to Andre Woolfolk broke a 17-17 tie in the fourth quarter, and the Sooners reached the national title game.

5. 2001: Colorado 39, Texas 37, at Irving, Texas. The Longhorns were headed to the national title game, but the Buffs jumped to a 36-17 lead, then held off a Major Applewhite-led rally.

6. 2003: Kansas State 35, Oklahoma 7, at Kansas City. Everyone expected a rout by the No. 1-ranked Sooners. Instead, it was a rout the other way, with Darren Sproles rushing for 235 yards.

7. 2007: Oklahoma 38, Missouri 17, at San Antonio. Sam Bradford threw two second-half TD passes as OU broke away from a halftime tie to rout top-ranked Mizzou.

8. 2006: Oklahoma 21, Nebraska 7, at Kansas City. Paul Thompson threw two TD passes to Malcolm Kelly as the Sooners won the only OU-NU title game since the â€˜80s.

9. 1999: Nebraska 22, Texas 6, at San Antonio. The Huskers held the 'Horns to just 173 total yards for Nebraska's only victory over UT in the Big 12 era.

10. 2002: Oklahoma 29, Colorado 7, at Houston. Quentin Griffin rushed for 188 yards as the Sooners won to reach the Rose Bowl.

11. 2008: Oklahoma 62, Missouri 21, at Kansas City. Juaquin Iglesias caught two TD passes from Sam Bradford in a 28-point second quarter as the Sooners reached the national title game.

12. 1997: Nebraska 54, Texas A&M 15, at San Antonio. Perhaps the Big 12's greatest team rolled to a 37-3 halftime lead, and Ahman Green rushed for 179 yards.

13. 2004: Oklahoma 42, Colorado 3, at Kansas City. Jason White threw for three TDs, Adrian Peterson ran for three more and OU held the Buffs to 46 total yards.

14. 2005: Texas 70, Colorado 3, at Houston. The Longhorns led 70-3 with 7:36 left in the third quarter.

Berry Tramel
