Of the 15 previous title games, six of them were rematches:Ģ007: Missouri's only regular-season loss was 41-31 at Oklahoma in a mid-October game. That wasn't always the case, not when the league had 12 teams in divisions from 1996-2010. With the Big 12 now at 10 teams and playing a round-robin schedule, one thing the championship game will be every year is a rematch of the top two teams in the conference standings. 'The reality of it, and I get it, it's not going to be perfect every single year.' 'You can sit there in any year and draw the scenario where it makes sense and where it doesn't make sense,' Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said. The Big 12 decided to revive the title game in hopes of an additional game for the playoff selection committee to weigh for the final rankings, which this season come on Sunday. The Sooners might already be playoff-bound if they didn't have another game to play. 11 CFP) for the second time in four weeks to make it into the four-team College Football Playoff. 3 CFP ) trying to stay in contention for a national championship. When the Big 12's title game is revived Saturday after a six-season hiatus, it will be the No. (AP) - The last Big 12 championship game rematch 10 years ago cost the league a national title shot.īack then it was Oklahoma knocking off then-No.
