The first year of the College Football Playoff didn’t go so well for the Big 12. After entering the selection show as the only conference with two legitimate contenders for one of the four spots, co-champions TCU and Baylor were instead shipped off to the Peach Bowl and Cotton Bowl, respectively.
Big 12 could get rid of TWO TRUE CHAMPIONS thing
The conference’s ad campaign last season centered around “One True Champion,” an idea that most definitely backfired.
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The conference’s lack of a tiebreaker arose as a controversial subject after the initial bracket was released, with conference champions from the ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC making the field instead. That could all be changing, and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Thursday the conference is considering a switch to a head-to-head tiebreaker. If the rule had been in place for the 2014 season, Baylor would have been named the Big 12 champion (Bowlsby previously said he would have voted for TCU).
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 Nothing is official yet -- the conference is still working out details of the potential change.
Big 12 takes no action on determining one champion in football. Still working out three-way tie-breaker procedure.
— Chuck Carlton (@ChuckCarltonDMN) March 12, 2015 Earlier this offseason, TCU head coach Gary Patterson suggested a six-team playoff model that involved the other power conferences getting rid of their conference championship games. Baylor head coach Art Briles called leaving his team out “not the American way.”
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