The knee jerk logic is that having a conference championship automatically increases odds of getting a playoff berth. Which is supported by 1 year of history thus far. But you also have to look at the downside of a championship game. Unless you can get a 1 loss team to represent both divisions in that game, you run a serious risk of playing your conference out of the playoffs. When you calculate that factor into the equation, who knows which situation is better in the long run? The Big 12 may stick to its guns and make it work, possibly even better than the pac 12, big ten, or acc is with their conference championship games, and OU might become the first example of that this year.