Of the first 10 Big 12 Conference championship football games, Oklahoma and Nebraska have played in a total of seven of them.
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So it's hard to believe this will be the first time since the conference was formed in 1996 that the two teams — who routinely played with Big 8 titles on the line during the 1970s and '80s — have met in the title game.
OU and Nebraska kick off at 7 p.m. Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.
The three seasons in which neither OU nor Nebraska played for the Big 12 championship were 1998 (Kansas State and Texas A&M), 2001 and 2005 (Colorado and Texas both times).
Saturday's game will be the fourth time in 83 meetings that the Sooners and Cornhuskers have played at a neutral site.
They played at Omaha, Neb., in 1919, at Oklahoma City in 1944, and they met in the 1978 Orange Bowl in Miami.
OU is 2-0-1 in those three games and leads the all-time series 42-37-3.
• Ticket info: OU season ticket holders have a two-hour window today to order Big 12 Championship tickets before the OU ticket office opens sales to the general public.
Season ticket holders can call the ticket office between 8-10 a.m. to place an order for tickets in the OU section of the stadium. If any tickets are left at that time, they will become available to the public.
Tickets cost $70 each and may be purchased by calling the OU ticket office at (405) 325-2424 or 800-456-4668. All orders will be shipped overnight via UPS.
Upper-level tickets also are still available at www.big12sports.com starting at $50.
• Meaningful games: OU coach Bob Stoops said Sunday he was excited to again be playing in a game with so much riding on the outcome.
After being in the hunt for Big 12 and national championships every season from 2000-2004, the Sooners weren't in any of those discussions during an 8-4 campaign a year ago.
It appeared they would be left out again this year, until Texas A&M upset Texas on Friday.
"It was exciting to me Friday when that happened to again be in a game that meant so much," Stoops said. "It's exciting to be in it, where you have so much at stake."
By Scott Wright
OU fans like Zach Riddle and his father Kevin Riddle will have to act fast if they want tickets to the Big 12 Championship game. BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN
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