For the second straight season, the Super Bowl will be headlined by a pair of Big 12 quarterbacks facing off for the Lombardi Trophy.
Last year it was Texas Tech’s Patrick Mahomes and Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts. This year Mahomes returns to face Iowa State’s Brock Purdy. These two never faced off on the collegiate gridiron, Mahomes was already in the NFL when Purdy took over the Cyclones’ job.
While the quarterbacks command all the headlines, the Big 12 as a whole has a plethora of talent representing them on the biggest stage. The departing Oklahoma Sooners lead the way with six players playing in the game, four on the Chiefs and two on the 49ers. The Texas Longhorns have one player on the 49ers roster. Surprisingly enough, it is the TCU Horned Frogs with the second-most players hailing from a Big 12 school with three players.
As a whole, we have 17 players by our count on Super Bowl rosters. With the additions of BYU and Cincinnati, we can add Fred Warner of San Francisco and Travis Kelce of Kansas City to the list of Big 12 players on display in Las Vegas.
Kansas City Roster:
- Travis Kelce, Cincinnati Bearcats
- Felix Anudike-Uzomah, Kansas State Wildcats
- Ekow Boye-Doe, Kansas State Wildcats
- Blake Bell, Oklahoma Sooners
- Creed Humphrey, Oklahoma Sooners
- Wanya Morris, Oklahoma Sooners
- James Winchester, Oklahoma Sooners
- Lucas Niang, TCU Horned Frogs
- Charles Omenihu, Texas Longhorns
- Patrick Mahomes, Texas Tech Red Raiders
San Francisco Roster:
- Fred Warner, BYU Cougars
- Brock Purdy, Iowa State Cyclones
- Trent Williams, Oklahoma Sooners
- Brayden Willis, Oklahoma Sooners
- Matt Pryor, TCU Horned Frogs
- Dee Winters, TCU Horned Frogs
- Colton McKivitz, West Virginia Mountaineers