And so, one more step on the road to marginalizing the regular season is taken.
A formal proposal for the deregulation of conference championship games, which would allow the Big 12 to have a championship game as early as 2016, was advanced to the NCAA Council this week and is expected to be approved in January, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told ESPN.com.
Before you chide me for having a case of the vapors about it, consider this: the Big 12, a ten-school conference which plays a round robin conference schedule – the best way to decide a conference champion, in my humble opinion – is going to tack on a conference championship game. Why?
One day, guys like Bowlsby are going to wake up and wonder where all the interest in the college football regular season went. And then they’ll go out and add another round to the national playoffs. More brackets!
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UPDATE: If you’re having trouble answering my question – and I’m not sure why you would – let Oklahoma President David Boren fill in the blanks for you.
“…When we look at football playoffs and our conference is bumping up against conferences with 12 or 14 members, I believe that we are psychologically disadvantaged because we are a smaller conference.” [Emphasis added.]
“Psychologically disadvantaged”. Jeebus, these guys are too much.