One of the biggest misconceptions in the major college football world is that the Big XII is a weaker overall conference due to their lack of a championship game and that the lack of a championship game will hurt Big XII teams aspiring to make the College Football Playoff. In fact, without a championship game, how can the Big XII have a true champion? What if the title ends in a tie?
The stigma against a major conference without a championship game is outdated. After the SEC started playing a championship game back in 1992, other major conferences soon followed. The one notable exception was the Big Ten. The Big Ten had 11 teams and wasn’t changing that, so they could not have a championship game. Since the Big Ten did not play a full round-robin, not every team played everyone else. This could lead to awkward scenarios where there is a tie for the conference title and no real head-to-head way to break it. It could also lead to the even more awkward case of two teams in the conference finishing undefeated, as happened in 2002.
