For the first time since TCU joined the Big 12, the Horned Frogs will have a chance to secure a football title by winning a conference championship game in December.
The season-ending showdown at AT&T Stadium in Arlington will be a guaranteed rematch of a regular-season contest, a novel twist on a concept created years ago to match divisional winners from within the same league.
But in the division-free Big 12, the 2017 season will unfold with the chance that a team could win all nine of its conference games yet flub its title hopes with a loss in JerryWorld to the second-place finisher from the final league standings.