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Big 12 may ask for rule change to allow it to play
Clearly, the Big 12 doesn't like to play leapfrog.The conference having seen its top two teams, TCU and Baylor pa sed over in last year's final College Football Playoff selection proce s, is considering asking for a rule change that would allow it to play a conference Daniel Castro Jersey championship game that could burnish its playoff contenders' credentials, .MORE: | | Under current rules, only conferences with 12 or more teams are allowed to play championship games, leaving the 10-team Big 12 to stand on its regular season when the selection committee makes its final choices."I think we are at a disadvantage not playing a championship game," Big 12 commi sioner Bob Bowlsby said Wednesday, according to Yahoo's Pat Forde. "The first Sam Hilliard Jersey step is to get that rule deregulated. If the rule changes, we'll take a good look at it and I surmise we'll probably move in that direction."It's not without irony thatthe Big 12apparently has joined last year'sselection committee in feelingOhio State's 59-0 victory over Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship, which lifted the Buckeyes to 12-1,was what enabled the eventual national champions to leapfrog TCU and Baylor, with identical 11-1 regular-season records,into the four-team playoff Jon Gray Jersey .However, Big Ten commi sioner Jim Delany warnsthat league championship games "cut both ways" sometimes costing a conference's best team with an upset lo s.He also said that one of the le sons learned from the Bowl Championship Series was that constant alterations eroded public confidence."We probably made some mistakes by tweaking, to be honest," Delany said, which could be interpreted as a warning to the Big 12.As it stands coming out of theCFP management committee'sthree-daymeetingin Dallas, changes to the one-year-old system will be few and minor."It worked," spokesman Bill Hancock said Wednesday. "There was a pretty strong sentiment, if I can quote an old Oklahoma phrase: Charlie Blackmon Jersey don't fix it if it ain't broke."So, Yahoo reports,the basic format remains the same four teams chosen and seeded by the selection committee playing two New Year's Evebowl games, this yearin the Orange Bowl in South Florida and the Cotton Bowl in North Texas, with the winners advancing to the national championship gamein January 2016 in Glendale, Ariz.The weekly proce s of selecting those teams will remain largely unchanged as well, with the first ranking released Tuesday, Nov. 3, andthe final playoff-determining rankings coming out Sunday, Dec. 6.One Carlos Gonzalez Jersey thing the selection committeeintends to change is to more thoroughly communicate the importance placed on winning a conference title, which again would leave a Big 12 sans championship game trying to lift a potential co-champion in the committee's eyes.
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