New Big 12?

[lasomeday]

Utah is going to the Pac 10......12.

[bluedogok]

Where is this hard and fast rule that this conference cannot have a conference championship game?

Not sure if it is an NCAA rule or a BCS rule, but it only applies to football.

It is an NCAA rule, 12 teams minimum for a conference championship game. They could petition for a chance to have one if they so desired but no guarantees that they would allow it.

[Bostonfan]

Where is this hard and fast rule that this conference cannot have a conference championship game?

If you have 12+ teams you can have champ. game. If you have less than 12 you have to apply through the NCAA and they have to grant it. From what I understand, the Big 12 (or the future Big 10) wants no part of a champ. game.

Edit: Sorry Bluedog, didn't see your post till after I replied.

[earlywinegareth]

Football - no divisions, everyone will play each other, no CCG
Basketball - everyone will play home & home with a conference tourney at the end of the year

Now just need a new name.

[Oil Capital]

If you have 12+ teams you can have champ. game. If you have less than 12 you have to apply through the NCAA and they have to grant it. From what I understand, the Big 12 (or the future Big 10) wants no part of a champ. game.

Edit: Sorry Bluedog, didn't see your post till after I replied.

To be clear, the 12 team minimum only applies to football championships, correct?

[El Gato Pollo Loco!!!]

Well, that's a dumb rule.

OU and OSU might as well have just gone to the PAC without Texas.

[Wambo36]

To be clear, the 12 team minimum only applies to football championships, correct?

Yes, that's how I understand it.

[bluedogok]

To be clear, the 12 team minimum only applies to football championships, correct?

Yes, only in DI-A (or FBS as they call it now) because it was a new concept added at the time the Big 12 and previous large WAC was formed, before most of the original WAC members broke off to form the Mountain West.

Basketball has not had that type of restriction as long as I can remember.

[Roadhawg]

The part that disappoints me the most is that Mizzou was headed for the Moutain West Conference if the Big XII had fallen apart. That would have been poetic justice and would have been worth having OU play in the PAC 16.

I was hoping that's what was going to happen. Being a long time Husker we hate them too