Last week we told you about an idea that the Atlantic Coastal Conference was floating around in which they would scrap their conference divisions. Unfortunately, they were beaten to the punch on Tuesday morning as the Pac-12 announced that they would be scrapping their division system. This news comes on the heels of the NCAA announcing that conferences no longer had to use a division format to decide participants for a conference championship game for leagues of 12 teams or more.
The Pac12 has stated they will select the two teams to play in their conference title game based on their conference winning percentage starting this season. With that format in mind, how different would a Big Ten Championship Game have looked with a no-division format? Would Nebraska have played in more than one Big Ten title game? Let’s look at every match, starting with the first game in 2011 until last year. Then, we will take the two teams with the highest winning percentage in the Big Ten for that season and see if it would have created a different matchup for the Big Ten title. The head-to-head matchup will be the only tiebreaker used.
Scroll below and take a look at how different or not the conference championship game would have been in an entirely new format.