How bad would it really be if we added Boise and BYU?
BIGXII North:
Iowa State
Kansas
Boise State
Kansas State
BYU
West Virginia
BIGXII South:
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas Tech
Baylor
TCU
We'd be in the championship game EVERY YEAR!! haha
Yeah let's not play Texas every year but make trips to Boise every other year. :toilet:
Everyone is going to want access to Texas. You can make that happen by creating scheduling "pods" with 2 Texas teams and one Oklahoma team.
Something like Oklahoma/TCU/Baylor and OSU/Texas/Tech. You can also stack the North to do something similar to decrease distance.
KSU/ISU/WVU and KU/Memphis/Cincy (since we won't go west).
Every year, you'd get a Texas team at home, and you'd get a Texas team away. We'd just use the old scheduling where you'd just rotate between the teams in the South and have a home/away with them every four years.
Your 2/1 away would always be balanced by a 3/2 divisional schedule at home. So, for every year you get three games at home in your division, you go 1 home/2 away in the South.
Honestly, it's not that bad.
I'd also, personally, like to see a scheduling arrangement where we supply BYU with six games every year to help boost the non-con. But that's just me.
I like it. I don't see how this hurts the conference?
Just no. Anyone seriously thinking that crap is a good idea needs memory pills. The only reason the BigXII still exists is that it turned out dividing our big ass pile of TV money by 10 instead of 12 resulted in a big enough number for UT and OU to stay. You can't just throw two rando puds into the mix and expect that math to work out the same. Any added teams have to raise the profile of the conference enough that a new TV contract would increase by an amount that the shares remain the same or increase.
In the unlikely event that the BigXII ever adds members it will be programs with huge brands that might want to wander over to a conference which unabashedly allows its big names to do whatever the hell they want. The NDs and FSUs of the world are welcome, puds can gtfo.
Besides, TCU and Baylor didn't get stiff armed because the BigXII has 10 members. They got mushed a little because the situation was a mess leaving no clear choice between the two of them and mainly because Ohio State is a deserving-ish team with a much bigger name. This talk about the lack of a championship game is just a narrative being fit to the situation. Programs like us, TCU, and Baylor have access to the playoffs but we don't have room for error like loosing to a dogshit WVU team or blowing a 21 point 4th quarter lead.
We should change the league rules to declare a clear champion, but there's no way in hell the powers that be are going to let their income be diluted by adding some directional schools in order to get to 12. Texas and OU both know that if it was one of them instead of TCU / Baylor they get the invite.
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