PHOENIX -- The Big 12 has been talking for some time. Finally, action appears to be on the horizon.
This week in Phoenix, the conference's athletic directors and football coaches gathered to receive a power point presentation from Navigate Research, a firm which crunched the numbers on which format would give the Big 12 the best path to reach the College Football Playoff.
"We wanted to show the football coaches what we thought was germane to [them] -- how you get to the playoff," said commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who also noted that Navigate's algorithm "has successfully predicted all eight teams in the last two playoffs.