Selection Process
The Big 12 Championship Game matched up the winner of the North and South divisions of the Big 12 Conference. The game was first played in 1996, when the conference was assembled to include all of the teams from the Big Eight Conference as well as four teams that had formerly been members of the Southwest Conference. The championship game was modeled on the SEC format, which was the first conference in college football to have a conference championship game. Today, five additional conferences also now hold conference championship games: the ACC, C-USA, the MAC, the Big Ten, and the Pac-12. While the Big 12 has drop their championship game at this time because only having 10 teams and a championship game requires at least 12.
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