The Big 12’s maxim of “One True Champion” will actually be true in the 2015 football season.
Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Thursday that the conference's athletic directors are in favor of getting rid of the co-champion policy and instead using head-to-head as the tiebreaker to indeed declare one true champion.
Bob Bowlsby says Big 12 athletic directors are in favor of ending the conference's co-champion policy. Head to head result will break tie.
— Kellis Robinett (@KellisRobinett) March 12, 2015 The Big 12’s “One True Champion” credo came under fire during the football season as Baylor and TCU jockeyed for position in the College Football Playoff. They both had one loss, but Baylor beat the Horned Frogs in their matchup. The conference declared the two teams co-champions and the Big 12 ultimately became the only Power Five conference to miss out on the inaugural College Football Playoff despite it being the only conference with two teams in the top six of the rankings.
Of course, there’s no guarantee that the Big 12 declaring Baylor the regular season champion over TCU would have changed the way the College Playoff Committee voted. Baylor finished fifth and TCU finished sixth in the final rankings.
However, declaring one champion will make it easier for the conference to petition for one team if playoff scenarios are close in future years.
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