As soon as Wednesday’s NCAA announcement about divisions not being required in order to decide championship games qualifiers was announced, the Pac-12 was ready with a release of their own. Starting this season, the Pac-12 Conference will invite the two teams with the highest conference winning percentage to face off in the championship game.
The NCAA’s announcement stated that it will relax restrictions on college football’s conference championship games, allowing conferences to determine the teams that would participate in their respective title game. That decision paved the way for conferences to avoid having title-game matchups determined by division winners and could lead to eliminating divisions altogether.