Now that the Big 12 has decided to stay at 10 schools, it’s time for the conference to figure out whether to split up into football divisions and determine who will play in the Big 12 championship game that returns next season.
“We weren’t able to move forward in a direction until we knew about the composition of the conference going forward,” Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said. “We are looking at several options.”
If the league opts to return to divisions, the big question then becomes how to split into groups of five.
As a 12-team league until 2010, the Big 12 had North and South divisions.