Arizona/ASU, Utah/BYU, Kansas/K-State, TCU/Baylor are the only protected games for this round.
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There are some that seem to be protected, KSU and KU play every year, and a few others.
ISU just got screwed.
There are so many better options than this. This sucks.
i regret it b/c now i get to read about all the bitchn!
Yep, but it’s weird some are excited about home games with Houston and UCF and not playing KSU or OSU. Also weird to pretend like we don’t get up for Texas or OU when they were on the schedule. Smaller games sucks.
True, but instead of playing 3 teams every year we do get to play 6 teams 3 out of 4 years.
all the games are "smaller" games without OU/TX.
Here's my thinking - would you rather have 1 protected rival you get every year, or a bunch that you play 3/4? We get KSU, KU, OSU 75% of the years. There isn't a year in there where we play none of them. We also have the Riot Bowl 75% of the time. And, we only get the Arizona and Texas schools 2 out of 4 years. I would like to have seen Farmageddon protected, but if you protect every rivalry you'd end up with extremely unbalanced schedules (like the Big Ten, especially Iowa going forward with 3 protected rivals). The Big 12 decided to favor schedule balance across all 16 schools more than protecting historical rivalries, but then offered a little concession with weighting schedules a little bit in that direction. I'm fine with it. After all the years with the round-robin (my favorite type of schedule), this variety will be fun as a contrast.
Another thing that makes it not a rivalry game is that I like Kansas State. They're our twin program if there was one. I HATE Iowa, **** them. They're a rival.
Why can’t you?
Even if it is somehow unworkable (it isn’t), there are still plenty of other teams we could learn to hate.
Just sucks that we don’t get a conference rival to build a tradition around.
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We literally don’t play them for one year and people are seriously losing their minds?
Iowa has 3 rivals, when others in the B1G only have 1.
there are a few in this sched that have 1 rival while others have none..
So what is the difference if some have 2 while others have 1.
Going to Boulder in '25! Will start trying to prep the wife now lol.
I get excited for winning. This gives us a better opportunity.
the funny thing is Utah doesn’t want to play byu. They hate byu so bad they convinced themselves MWC>big 12
Over the past decade Baylor/TCU would have superior SOS from this. It’s the only one where both teams are typically ranked in their average year.
I don't think our opinions are that different. You said it's close to a rivalry, I say it's a rivalry but not our chief rival. Like I said, I don't think it's a big deal it's going away. I’m not mad about it or anything. Just a little dissapointed we won't be playing them every year and the continuous playing streak is going to end.
Would I prefer we play KSU every year? Yes. Am I super bothered by it? Not really. Just a reality in terms of growing the conference.