CBS Sports.com: Big 12 talking to NCAA about conference title game (Raider Buzz blog)

Submitted by Raider Buzz on January 7, 2013 - 6:44pm

The Big 12 plans to ask the NCAA to revisit a rule preventing a 10-team league from playing a conference championship game, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby tells CBSSports.com.

The league has had preliminary talks with the NCAA and "I expect that we will make that request" formally, Bowlsby said.

The 10-team Big 12 plays a round-robin schedule, and though the league doesn't currently have plans to add a title game, it's making this request based on principle and future flexibility.

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Principle?

Submitted by moffitt on January 7, 2013 - 7:46pm.

If the Big 12 wants to focus on a principle, focus on the fact that many minor conferences make more television money than the Big 12. Oh, and how about the principle that when you turn on your television, you can watch every major conference play football except the Big 12?