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Big 12 divisional analysis

By Brian Fremeau and Bill Connelly
Football Outsiders

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Last fall, the two best teams in the Big 12 clashed on a neutral field. Each team was ranked in the top-five, the capacity crowd was split 50-50, and conference supremacy awaited the victor. That's the idea, at least, for staging a conference championship game in December. In this case, however, the marquee Big 12 game was played between the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners in the middle of October -- and the winner didn't even get to participate in the conference championship. Instead, Ok ...

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