Imagine the 48 years of the Big Seven and Big Eight conferences (1948-95) as 48 football championship units, divided in split-title years. Of those, only 6 and 1/6 units were not won by Nebraska or Oklahoma, broken down as follows from sports-reference.com:
- Colorado, 3 (1961, 1989, 1990) plus 1/2 (1991) plus 1/3 (1976)
- Missouri, 1 (1960) plus 1/2 (1969)
- Kansas, 1/2 (1968)
- Oklahoma State, 1/3 (1976)
- Iowa State and Kansas State, zero
It makes the Big Ten of the same time period look positively egalitarian. The three-way 1967 split of Indiana, Minnesota, and Purdue is still the most recent conference championship for the first two.
Of the four who did not win a full championship, Kansas won one (1930) and two halves (1946-47) in the Big Six while Kansas State won one (1934). Oklahoma State is credited with a title in 1926 as Oklahoma A&M in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association before the split. (Nebraska was 5-1 in conference, OA&M was 3-0-1.)
Iowa State’s only conference titles are 1911 and 1912 in the MVIAA, both shared with Nebraska. Iowa State has never, ever, ever won a conference football championship outright.