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With Big 12's top-two format, do rivalry games need some shuffling?

For the second straight season, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will settle the Big 12 football championship in the final game of the regular season.

If the Big 12 had a conference title game, the Sooners and Cowboys would have then faced off in an immediate rematch.

Next year, the situation will not just be a hypothetical. The Big 12 championship game is returning after being on hiatus since 2010. The top two teams in the standings will meet at AT&T Stadium next season with a league championship and what the Big 12 hopes is more on the line.