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Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark walks onto the stage to speak at the Big 12 NCAA college football media days in Frisco, Texas, Tuesday, July 8, 2025.

The Big 12 Conference announced on Wednesday afternoon that its schools will soon be required to publish information about player availability.

Big 12 teams will provide availability reports, to be published on the conference’s website, ahead of league games for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball, beginning during the 2025-26 season.

For football, schools will be required to put out reports each day beginning three days before a given game, as well as a final report 90 minutes prior to kickoff. Teams will indicate whether players are available, probable, questionable, doubtful or out for a given game.

Men’s and women’s basketball teams will publish a report the night before a game that describes players as available, a game-time decision or out.

The move brings the Big 12 in line with three additional power conferences. The Big Ten implemented availability reports in 2023, the SEC did so last season and the ACC announced it planned to do so in July.

The commissioners of those leagues have essentially positioned the reporting as an anti-gambling measure that can deter third-party individuals from attempting to gain inside information about players’ statuses. The result, in any case, is a greater level of transparency about injuries and the like than was available before for many teams.

Last November, Kansas football coach Lance Leipold spoke about the prospect of future Big 12 availability reports during one of his weekly press conferences, stating he was in support of their implementation as long as they were “apples to apples,” or consistent between schools.

“If it’s for wagering purposes or what is it for, I’m not really sure what’s the need — I’m not really sure,” Leipold said. “But I guess it may prevent everybody from standing at midfield checking off who’s at the game and who’s not for everybody.”