Is the Big 12 interested in living up to its name once again?

After all, the Power 5 conference has been operating with 10 teams since losing Texas A&M and Missouri, among others, back in 2012.

It is the only Power 5 conference without a conference championship game, and that has already proven to be an issue for the conference’s teams trying to qualify for the College Football Playoff, as evidenced by both TCU and Baylor missing out in favor of  Big Ten conference championship game winner Ohio State back in 2014.

According to USA Today, the conference recently asked Navigate Research to help quantify the advantages of adding two more teams.

The results indicated that a 12-team alignment and eight-game conference schedule would give the Big 12 a four-to-five percent better chance at making the College Football Playoff.

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said that will be a piece of information that goes under consideration when the league’s members meet and discuss the possibility of an expansion later in the spring.

“Once we get the diagnostics done and the data analysis done, we need to get down the path and make some decisions,” he said. “There’s no sense in dragging it out once we know all the pieces to the puzzle.”

He expects some sort of a decision to come in the summer, according to the report.

The Big 12 may or may not be looking to add more teams.

Either way, Memphis wants to make one thing clear– they’re interested.

According to a report from The Commercial Appeal, the Tigers sent a publication titled “Memphis Spirit of a City” to the president of the University of Texas back in December as he began to build his case for the Tigers.

The university made that available to the public via Twitter on Monday:

The Commercial Appeal cites BYU, Cincinnati, Central Florida, UConn and Houston as other schools that are believed to be interested in a move to the Big 12.

Stay tuned. It seems like there could be more to come out of this in the coming weeks.