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Pac-12 does away with football championship game format

Starting this season, the Pac-12 football championship game will look a bit different: Rather than featuring the winners of the north and south divisions, it will instead feature the two teams with the top winning percentages, regardless of division affiliation, the conference announced on Wednesday.

The announcement came about five minutes (seemingly, anyway) after the NCAA paved the way for the change by removing the requirement* that conference championship games in football feature division winners.

Of course, the Big 12 has been using a waiver to conduct its championship game this way for years, after the defections of Texas A&M and Missouri left the conference with just 10 members — hence the asterisk above.