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Big 12 approves title game in 2017; not pursuing conference network

One out of three is OK for baseball, and for the Big 12 it is a grand slam because something actually got done. The conference unanimously voted on bringing back a conference title game within the 10-team league for the 2017 season.

The title game will pay the league nearly $30 million for having a conference championship game.

The other news came on the conference television network side, and that seems to be shutdown, for now.

Boren: “the boat has sailed” with regards to creating a traditional conf network. So the vote this summer will strictly be an expansion one

— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) June 3, 2016

If the conference is not pursuing a television network similar to what the SEC, Pac-12 or Big Ten have then that really hurts Colorado State's chances to get into the Big 12, if they decided to expand.