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On Tuesday, the head football coaches at Big 12 schools took part in their spring teleconference. One of the hottest topics of the call was whether the Big 12 should have a championship game.
Right now, the NCAA regulates championship games, and only conferences with at least 12 teams and two divisions are allowed to have such a game. But in 2016, that regulation goes away, opening the door for the Big 12 to have a championship game.
While they realize that they can have a championship game, the question remains, do they want to have such a game? The coaches seemed somewhat divided as to how they would like to see the conference move forward.
This was a large discussion on Tuesday because of the fact that the Big 12 was the only Power Five conference that did not have a team in the first College Football Playoff last season. Both the Baylor Bears and the TCU Horned Frogs were on the cusp of getting in, but neither did.
If the Big 12 would have had a championship game last season, it could have been between Baylor and TCU, and that winner might have jumped into the playoff ahead of someone else. We will never know for sure, because there was no Big 12 Championship Game.
The coaches that came out against a conference title game on Tuesday said that it was tough enough to play each team in the conference once and they shouldn’t have to play someone twice. That, of course, is easily fixed by changing the conference policy to playing only eight conference games per year, either in divisions or by playing an unbalanced schedule.
There is also the money factor that the Big 12 should take into effect. Simply put, these championship games make money and that must be a consideration for the conference.
All in all, it seems like a good idea for the Big 12 to have a championship game. Whether they decide to do that or not remains to be seen.
Tim Letcher is a Featured Writer for www.RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @TimLetcher , on Facebook or add him to your network on Google.
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