Sources: Big 12 mulls first Mexico championship game

Pete Thamel, ESPNJun 7, 2023, 10:49 PM ET WASHINGTON, D.C.– The Big 12 conference is checking out starting a championship game in Monterrey, Mexico, as a linchpin of the league’s push into the nation, sources informed ESPN on Wednesday. The game would start in the postseason following the 2026 season and has actually been targeted for Monterrey, the sources said.Along with the plans for the postseason championship game, the Huge 12 likewise prepares to hold other sports in Mexico as part of a higher method in the nation. The guys’s and ladies’s basketball groups from both Kansas and Houston have consented to play each other in a regular-season game in Mexico City in December 2024, sources told ESPN.According to the

sources, Huge 12 groups are also expected to play exhibition games against local groups in both women’s soccer and baseball. The bowl game is anticipated to be the first postseason one in Mexico between two American college football teams.Editor’s Picks Huge 12 commissioner Brett Yormark discussed the Mexico technique at Huge 12 conferences in West Virginia

recently. According to sources, he revealed to the league’s leadership that the Mexico initiative will assist provide the league a natural extension into a local footprint in Mexico and offer Huge 12 professional athletes the experience in completing in another country.The championship game in Monterrey would be the second postseason one presently held outside the United States, joining the Bahamas Bowl in Nassau.

Historically, there’s been others, consisting of the now-defunct International Bowl in Toronto that held its last game in 2010. The Bacardi Bowl was also played in Havana, Cuba, periodically over the previous century.The league is still checking out service partners and a league pairing for the bowl game.The Big 12’s Mexico effort continues a pattern of the league being proactive in Yormark’s first year as commissioner. He brokered a six-year tv extension with ESPN and Fox that’s provided the league stability and worked out the early exit of Oklahoma and Texas.