One year from today, it’s Big 12 championship week. The conference brings back its title game to AT&T Stadium in 2017 in the hopes that oh-so-valuable 13th data point will impact its College Football Playoff odds.
Before the conference announced in late October that it will go with a No. 1 vs. No. 2 format in the championship game, Big 12 coaches got on a conference call together and talked out their options. They voted 7-3 to take a different approach, bringing back Big 12 divisions.
The league’s athletic directors took their input and still determined the No.