Coaches Oppose Playoff

Big 12 football coaches voted 12-0 against a conference football playoff, putting themselves at odds with most of their bosses.

“Our hope is that our people will listen,” said coach Tom Osborne of national champion Nebraska.

Big 12 officials were mostly lukewarm to the idea of a divisional championship game until recent projects indicated each school could net more than $500,000 from the game.

“Initially, Texas A&M was opposed to a playoff,” athletic director Wally Groff said Sunday as Big 12 officials began five days of meetings on a variety of thorny transition issues. “But all the facts and figures we had were incomplete.”