1 team in our preseason Big 12 poll taken by our group of experts within the CBS Sports family. We may as well adapt the above into our updated vernacular, because the Bill Self-led Kansas Jayhawks - once again - project as the clear No. Franklin was in this particular instance referring to only death and taxes as constants in the late 1700s, but you know what? It's 2023.

OH I'm actually getting word from my producer that is not the old Franklin quote. However, since the formation of the Big 12, the Sooners lead the series, 17-10.The idiom coined by Benjamin Franklin on the few certainties in life is admittedly an old one but it nonetheless bears repeating because it has stood the test of time: Nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and Kansas demanding the respect and adoration of all us spreadsheet super-nerds who pontificate and project college basketball.

The only Big 12 team with an all-time winning percentage above. Overall, the conference and its members have been dominated by the Sooners. The next closest is the Texas Longhorns with six. In the title game itself, OU has appeared in the game a record 12 times. Oklahoma didn’t win that first title game in ’96, but since the arrival of Bob Stoops in 1999, it has been almost all Sooners. No other conference opponent has sniffed the league title since Baylor and TCU shared it back in 2014. The Sooners have won the Big 12 championship six consecutive years entering the 2021 season.

Their first was captured in 2000, when OU claimed its most recent national championship. Since the birth of the Big 12 Conference in 1996, no team has won more conference championships in football than the Oklahoma Sooners.

Big 12 championship game day and time