The Big 12 will now be able to hold a football conference championship game with 10 members.
Are you a fan of a college football program that was hoping to earn an invite to the Big 12 to help them with their little conference championship problem? Well, there’s some bad news.
On Wednesday the Big 12 went before the NCAA to see if they would indeed be able to start holding a conference championship game in football, and well, the vote went through. They will in fact be able to pit the top two teams in the conference at the end of the season against one another to determine a champion.
DI Council approves proposal allowing FBS conferences without 12 members to hold conference championship football games.
— NCAA (@NCAA) January 13, 2016
Now as you can see with the announcement from the NCAA there, this applies to all conferences that only have 10 members. However, when we’re being honest with one another, in the grand scheme of things the Big 12 is the one under the microscope here. They were the ones that caused a stir in 2014 when they were shut out of the College Football Playoff discussion, with TCU and Baylor being left out of the fold.
So when this goes into action, as Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby stated, we’re going to be treated to rematches from the regular season when the top two teams are determined. As for how they’re determined, though, he’s still unsure of that.
How would the top two teams be determined? Bowlsby unsure. "It guarantees an automatic rematch from the regular season."
— Brian Davis (@BDavisUT) January 13, 2016
This was just the first step in the whole process, as the Big 12 now has to vote on whether or not they want to have the title game, which it’s a pretty safe bet they will approve that going forward.
So, sorry, Houston and BYU fans.