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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsy is on record as saying his conference has no interest in expanding just so it can hold a conference championship game. (AP photo)

The NCAA will consider a proposal to allow conferences with fewer than 12 members to hold football championship games.

The proposal, introduced by the NCAA's Football Oversight Committee, will be voted on today by the Division I Council at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio. Any such legislation would most directly affect the Big 12, which has only 10 members and is the only Power 5 conference that does not hold a title game.

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby is on record as saying his conference has no interest in expanding to 12 teams just so it can hold a championship game. The lack of a title game seemed to hurt the Big 12 in 2014 -- when co-champions TCU and Baylor were left out of the playoff despite 11-1 records -- but not in 2015, when outright champion Oklahoma finished fourth in the final rankings and made the playoff.

The proposal is likely to meet with opposition, however. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Sunday his league wouldn't support the legislation as "originally introduced."

"From the SEC's perspective, what's currently been proposed is not an approach we are inclined to support," Sankey told reporters in Paradise Valley, Arizona, the site of the College Football Playoff Championship Game. "We are a conference with the greatest sample size of successful conference championship games and competition that supports that."

AL.com's John Talty contributed to this report.