Conference Re-Alignment Thread Part Who Knows

[TracerBullet]

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If Memphis can keep their program on the track they were on this year, could be worthwhile. Problem is I can't see them doing that.

[Pokes]

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Some of the schools being listed here are just hilarious.


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[dickey1331]

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I stand by that SMU will be in the SEC West one day.

[DonkeyJote]

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They're also trying to get the waiver to get a conference title game without 12 teams.

[superjames1992]

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They're also trying to get the waiver to get a conference title game without 12 teams.

If they can get that done, that would be my preference.

[Redacted01]

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If they can get that done, that would be my preference.

Why? Let's say Baylor doesn't lose to WVU this year and are 12-0, 9-0 in conference (or maybe they go back to 8 conference games so the championship game looks like it is needed). They and TCU meet in the Big 12 title game and TCU wins. Both are now 12-1, 9-1 in conference, and split a game against each other. Is TCU champion just because you called it a "championship" game, because everything else points to the fact that they are tied? And maybe both still get left out because they beat up on eachother in championship week while Bama, Oregon, and OSU coasted, and of course, you wouldn't leave out that so-called powerhouse FSU.

If they go back to 8 games, then I think it's at least somewhat justified. If they keep playing 9 games and tack on a championship game, you're just asking for more trouble, especially since a situation like this could certainly happen again.

[TracerBullet]

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Why? Let's say Baylor doesn't lose to WVU this year and are 12-0, 9-0 in conference (or maybe they go back to 8 conference games so the championship game looks like it is needed). They and TCU meet in the Big 12 title game and TCU wins. Both are now 12-1, 9-1 in conference, and split a game against each other. Is TCU champion just because you called it a "championship" game, because everything else points to the fact that they are tied? And maybe both still get left out because they beat up on eachother in championship week while Bama, Oregon, and OSU coasted, and of course, you wouldn't leave out that so-called powerhouse FSU.

If they go back to 8 games, then I think it's at least somewhat justified. If they keep playing 9 games and tack on a championship game, you're just asking for more trouble, especially since a situation like this could certainly happen again.

You know that scenario is still possible in a 12/14-team league, right?

[superjames1992]

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Why? Let's say Baylor doesn't lose to WVU this year and are 12-0, 9-0 in conference (or maybe they go back to 8 conference games so the championship game looks like it is needed). They and TCU meet in the Big 12 title game and TCU wins. Both are now 12-1, 9-1 in conference, and split a game against each other. Is TCU champion just because you called it a "championship" game, because everything else points to the fact that they are tied? And maybe both still get left out because they beat up on eachother in championship week while Bama, Oregon, and OSU coasted, and of course, you wouldn't leave out that so-called powerhouse FSU.

If they go back to 8 games, then I think it's at least somewhat justified. If they keep playing 9 games and tack on a championship game, you're just asking for more trouble, especially since a situation like this could certainly happen again.

Well, I'd prefer to just stay at 10 and do the round robin, but the vindictive committee is apparently going to use the lack of a championship game to punish every Big 12 team not named Texas or Oklahoma.

[TracerBullet]

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Well, I'd prefer to just stay at 10 and do the round robin, but the vindictive committee is apparently going to use the lack of a championship game to punish every Big 12 team not named Texas or Oklahoma.

You would still have the round robin. The only difference would be two divisions of 5 teams just to get two teams in a championship.

I mean if Arizona beats USC (28-26 L) and UCLA (17-7 loss), we have that same exact scenario he described in his post in a 12-team conference.

[Pokes]

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Well, I'd prefer to just stay at 10 and do the round robin, but the vindictive committee is apparently going to use the lack of a championship game to punish every Big 12 team not named Texas or Oklahoma.

If the conference expanded it would essentially be only for the CFB playoff, and I think the fact we're being penalizing for not having 12+ teams/CCG is pure BS. I don't like this standard that's essentially being forced upon us, as it sets a very dangerous precedence. Staying at 10 teams is better for everyone in the conference right now.

Besides, if we were to expand who would we even bring in? I don't want a bunch of Texas leftovers in our conference.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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I don't see the Big 12 expanding, quite the opposite: I expect it to go the route of the old SouthWest Conference. If the SEC could steal Baylor, they'd never feel like they were being railroaded by the Commissioner. The SEC takes care of their own.

[LowerWolf]

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I'll be somewhat surprised if we don't have four 16-team super conferences in 10 years ... maybe even five.

[coyotedelmar]

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I always liked the 10 team, 9 conference game system. You didn't have the chance a team gets in/wins a playoff because their turn in the rotation meant a cupcake schedule *shrugs*



You don't have co-champions in that system though, that is just stupid. Baylor beat TCU, records equal Baylor won the title.



Get 12+ team ones can/do/should do a full slate of division games so the division winner is that, though don't most pick on conference record and not division record (brain fried right now)? Rather it be division and thus clearly sorted out. Yeah the other games become just filler but oh well.

[superjames1992]

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I've always been a fan of the round-robin. I liked it in the Big East. I like it in the Big 12. It's the best way to choose a champion.

[Pokes]

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BryanDFischer: RT @andrewperloff: Big 12 commish Bob Bowlsby says if he was a selection member he would have voted for TCU for 4th spot, not Baylor.

Just when I thought we couldn't get someone more incompetent than Beebe.