The Big Eight Conference sponsored championships in 21 sports (11 men's and 10 women's) at various times during its existence from 1907 to 1996. The conference began sponsoring women's sports in the mid-1970s under the direction of Assistant Commissioner Steven J. Hatchell.
Due to its common history with the Missouri Valley Conference, Big Eight championships from 1907–1908 through 1927–1928 are also claimed by the MVC.
Following are the MVIAA/Big Eight regular-season conference champions from 1908 to 1996 (showing shared championships in italics):
All Big Eight men's basketball post-season tournaments were held at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. Through 1985, however, the quarterfinal rounds were played on the home courts of the top four seeds in the tournament.
From 1946 to 1978, the Big Eight hosted a mid-season tournament in which all of the league teams participated. During the early years, when the conference was composed of only 6 or 7 teams, additional schools outside the conference were invited to create an 8-team field. Among teams invited from outside the conference, only SMU in 1946 ever won the tournament.
The Big Eight sponsored a mid-season tournament from the 1975–1976 season through the 1981–1982 season, before switching to a post-season tournament in 1983.
Following are the MVIAA/Big Eight conference champions from 1911 to 1995:
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Following are the MVIAA/Big Eight football conference champions from 1907 to 1995 (shared championship years are shown in italics):
* Kansas would have won the 1960 title, but after found to be using an ineligible player they were forced to forfeit their victories over Missouri and Colorado, which meant that Missouri was awarded the 1960 Big Eight title.
** Oklahoma would have won the 1972 title, but after found to be using an ineligible player they were forced to forfeit their victories over Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma State, which meant that Nebraska was awarded the 1972 Big Eight title.
Following are the MVIAA/Big Eight conference champions from 1921 to 1996 (shared titles in italics):
This is a list of Men's Gymnastics championships. Men's gymnastics became an official league sport in 1964. The Big Eight Conference did not sanction a league championship after the 1994 season because Iowa State dropped men's gymnastics and as a result that left the league with only two schools sponsoring the sport.