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Playboy’s Women of the Big 12, 1996

When two old conferences joined forces to make a super sexy new one.

Classics • September 9, 2026
Photography DAVID CHAN AND DAVID MECEY

This story was first published in our October 1996 issue. It was a marriage made in football heaven, and perhaps the best all-American union since biscuits met gravy. This autumn, the NCAA’s bygone Big Eight conference—historically known as the juggernaut of college football—swung open its doors to four Texas schools from the former Southwest Conference, […]

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