MAY 06, 2015 6:33p ET
MAY 06, 2015 6:33p ET
Now that the Big 12 has pumped the brakes on reinstating a championship game, there's another issue that requires adequate exploration: expansion.
The idea of bringing in another pair of teams is particularly appealing to conference bottom-dwellers Iowa State and Kansas, who have struggled with the Big 12's round-robin scheduling format.
"You'd have an unbalanced schedule," writes the Des Moines Register's Randy Peterson in a piece on the impact of a potential Big 12 expansion on Iowa State, "which is the only way Iowa State can even hope to be an annual bowl contender.