For the second straight season, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will settle the Big 12 football championship in the final game of the regular season.
If the Big 12 had a conference title game, the Sooners and Cowboys would have then faced off in an immediate rematch.
Next year, the situation will not just be a hypothetical. The Big 12 championship game is returning after being on hiatus since 2010. The top two teams in the standings will meet at AT&T Stadium next season with a league championship and what the Big 12 hopes is more on the line.