Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby will step away from his role with the league later in 2022, the conference announced in a release Tuesday. Bowlsby, who has led the league since 2012, will transition into a new interim role with the conference once a new commissioner is appointed.

The Big 12 wants to have a new commissioner in place in 90 days, Texas Tech president and board chair Lawrence Schovanec told The Athletic.

"After more than 40 years of serving in leadership roles in intercollegiate athletics, including the last 10 with the Big 12, and given the major issues that college sports in general and the Big 12 specifically will address in the next several years, I have reached a natural transition point in my tenure as Commissioner, as well as in my career," Bowlsby said in the release.