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Big 12 targets summer to decide on expansion

Big 12 presidents agree that they need to decide, maybe as soon as this summer, on expansion, a football championship game and implementation of a conference TV network, University of Oklahoma president David Boren told The Oklahoman on Tuesday.

“We're in a fact-finding mode, we're in a data-gathering mode,” Boren said. “In other words, what will it mean to the stability of the conference? What will it mean financially to the conference?

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“We've sort of said to ourselves, come this summer, we're going to have to finally make a decision about what we do.