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The 32 Best Prospects In The 2015 NFL Draft There's nothing that says the committee has to treat TCU like an actual conference champion just because the Big 12 decided the boost their resume at the 11th hour. On some level it's semantics, and it's up to the committee to sort it out. Sure, this is some craven manipulation of the rules from the Big 12, but its within their rights. another team for the final playoff spot, they'll still have that conference championship distinction, regardless of whether TCU has it too.īaylor, by the way, has hired a PR firm to lobby for a spot in the playoff. TCU for the final playoff spot, that head-to-head win will be monumental. If they beat Kansas State this weekend, they'll win the conference championship and have a head-to-head win over TCU. This move probably won't affect Baylor that much. To avoid this sort of situation, the Big 12 just went ahead and declared TCU a conference champion too. For example if the committee was picking between a one-loss Ohio State team that won the Big 10 and a one-loss TCU team that didn't win the Big 12, the conference championship metric would be a natural tiebreaker. If the Big 12 followed the normal tiebreaker rules and declared Baylor the sole champion, it would hurt TCU. Their only loss is to Baylor and they have wins over Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Kansas State. TCU is the highest ranked Big 12 team right now. The Big 12 uses a round robin with, apparently, no tiebreakers. The SEC, ACC, Big 10, and Pac 12 all use conference championship games. The loophole here is that conferences get to decide how they award their championships. By the committee's own guidelines, a team that has a conference championship on its resume has an advantage over a team that doesn't. It's listed as a metric to use when deciding between "teams that look similar" in the committee's official protocol. They're doing it because everyone thinks conference championships will matter enormously to the playoff committee. In order to boost the chances that it gets a team (any team) in the playoff, both Baylor and TCU will be declared Big 12 champions if they win this weekend, the Big 12 commissioner announced on Monday. And since Baylor beat TCU, Baylor would win the Big 12. Under normal circumstances, the tiebreaker would be head-to-head record. If TCU and Baylor both win their final regular season games this weekend, they'll finish with identical 8-1 conference records. Since the Big 12 plays a round-robin conference schedule where everybody plays everybody, the team with the best conference record at the end of the year wins the conference and there is no championship game. The other five teams on that list are all playing conference championship games this weekend. Going into the final week of the season, TCU and Baylor are two of the seven teams that still have a realistic chance to make the playoff. The Big 12 is pulling out all the stops to get a team into the college football playoff. AAC power Cincinnati became the first Group of Five team to make the CFP after the 2021 season.AP Baylor could be a Big-12 co-champion if it beats KSU. The Mountain West release states that part of the reason for the elimination of divisions is to put the league in the best position possible to earn one of the four College Football Playoff berths. Specific tiebreaker rules will be announced at a later date. The conference will send its top two teams based on conference records to the conference championship at the end of the season. "A single-division approach provides maximum flexibility to adapt the Conference schedule as the landscape continues to evolve, while also allowing member institutions to play each other more frequently."

"Our membership has been working on concepts since last summer, as part of our strategic planning for the future of the Mountain West," said commissioner Craig Thompson. The Mountain West has taken advantage of the change in a hurry with the conference announcing Friday that it will eliminate its divisions in football beginning in the 2023 season. The NCAA Division I Council announced earlier this week that it's recommended relaxed restrictions on football conference championship games that, in previous years, mandated that any conference with 12 or more teams must be separated into divisions or play a round-robin schedule.