SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- The NCAA voted on a proposal that would please most Sooner and Cowboy fans alike.
The Big 12 will be allowed to hold a football championship game in the future if it wants to under a rule change approved at the NCAA's annual convention.
DI Council approves proposal allowing FBS conferences without 12 members to hold conference championship football games.
— NCAA (@NCAA) January 13, 2016
The change scraps the requirement that leagues have 12 members and play in two divisions in order to hold a title game. The new rule lets a smaller league play a title game pitting its top two teams, provided it plays a round-robin regular season schedule as the Big 12 does now.
The vote by the NCAA Division I Council passed 7-2 on Wednesday. The Atlantic Coast Conference and the American Athletic Conference voted against it and the Pac-12 didn't vote.
The 10-member Big 12 is the only major conference that doesn't play a football title game.
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