The Big 12 will continue to discuss big issues at its meetings this week.

Just don't expect any major decisions on expansion, a football title game and a conference TV network by the time the Big 12's presidents adjourn Friday in Las Colinas. Still, the tantalizing possibility of anything definitive has resulted in about 35 media credentials being issued, including to outlets from potential expansion outposts Memphis, Cincinnati, Orlando (Central Florida) and Salt Lake City (near BYU).

"I really don't expect we'll make any decisions at the spring meetings, but that's up to our presidents and chancellors," Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said during an interview last week. "My guess is they'll want to be thoughtful about it, and they will get a whole bunch of data on a whole bunch of different topics and then they'll want to go back to campus ... and formulate a position on the different positions."

Certainly the presidents will have plenty to ponder. Navigate Research will present its data Thursday on scheduling models and conference membership in relation to the College Football Playoff. At meetings in Phoenix last month, Big 12 coaches received a presentation showing that expansion and a conference title game enhanced chances for reaching the CFP.

Bowlsby called it "a very narrow slice" of what the presidents will get.

On Friday, New York-based TV consultants Bevilacqua Helfant Ventures will present findings on a possible conference network and on what the league could expect if it reopens TV negotiations with expansion. While Bowlsby is being tight-lipped about the findings, he acknowledged that a conference title game would probably generate $2 million to $3 million per school annually.

Expansion and the creation of a TV network have been linked since the debate began, with Oklahoma President David Boren telling reporters last month that "if you're not going to have a network, you don't need an expansion." And a TV network has been stymied by Texas' 20-year agreement with ESPN for the Longhorn Network.

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But Bowlsby deviated from the conventional wisdom, saying he could see expansion without a TV network.

"I think it's conceivable," Bowlsby said.

A source familiar with the conference discussions indicated that a vote on expansion is possible this year, although the Big 12 might not decide on specific schools. The source indicated that a majority of the Big 12 schools -- at least six and maybe as many as eight of 10 -- back expansion, depending on the candidates.

But part of the problem is the lack of a consensus on candidates, the source said. If the Big 12 looks east, there's Cincinnati and UConn, long mentioned as possibilities. If the Big 12 looks west for BYU, then Colorado State makes sense as well. Or the conference could take a deep dive into the Sunshine State with Central Florida and South Florida. Memphis, with the backing of FedEx, is a wild card.

The Big 12 will also have three interim presidents in attendance: Texas Tech's John Opperman, Kansas State's Gen. Richard Myers and Baylor's David Garland, who replaced Ken Starr during the sex assault scandal at the school. Starr had chaired the conference's composition committee, which had studied expansion.

Regardless, Bowlsby doesn't want the Big 12 to avoid hard decisions while approaching a soft target of July.

"I'm going to encourage the group not to go past the end of the summer," Bowlsby said, "because I think we need to make some decisions and get headed where we're going to go."

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