Future Big 12 FB Opponents/Schedule Announced
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So, kinda like we **** on Iowa for having such a weak ass schedule every year?
ah, don't be like that. That means you get to build or maintain conference comradery with 6 other schools instead of 3, that's what.
I want whatever makes our schedule as easy as possible.
We get absolutely zero recognition from a typical top ten schedule that has been the norm so I want lots of 30-50 ranked schedules like big ten teams have gotten to feast on. Get wins.
You can easily make it that we play everyone in the conference every other year, and still maintain annual, historic rivalries.
KidSilverhair
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Anyway, here’s the bottom line: if you can’t have a round robin, any schedule you come up with will have problems.
Divisions? You get certain teams you play every year, and others you miss for a year or two. The problem is it’s impossible to balance divisions strength-wise; somebody is getting an easier schedule than somebody else (B1G West, anyone?).
Pods? Pods are nothing but smaller divisions, with the exact same issues.
Protected rivals? This can be a good way to keep longtime rivalries going without a break, but you either have only a few (like the B12 in this announcement) or you force rivalries that really aren’t rivalries. Those protected games also take away the opportunity for both teams to play a wider range of conference games.
The B12 plan to ensure everybody plays everybody else, home and away, over 4 seasons is probably about as good as you can ask for. Still, somebody’s getting an easier schedule than somebody else every year, but you can’t prevent that if you don’t have a round robin. And, as we are all discovering now, that plan also means contests that have been played for a very long time are not going to happen in some years.
Expand things to 24 or 30 teams, well … that’s gonna be some mind-blowingly unbalanced schedules, but there’s simply nothing that can be done about it.
Divisions? You get certain teams you play every year, and others you miss for a year or two. The problem is it’s impossible to balance divisions strength-wise; somebody is getting an easier schedule than somebody else (B1G West, anyone?).
Pods? Pods are nothing but smaller divisions, with the exact same issues.
Protected rivals? This can be a good way to keep longtime rivalries going without a break, but you either have only a few (like the B12 in this announcement) or you force rivalries that really aren’t rivalries. Those protected games also take away the opportunity for both teams to play a wider range of conference games.
The B12 plan to ensure everybody plays everybody else, home and away, over 4 seasons is probably about as good as you can ask for. Still, somebody’s getting an easier schedule than somebody else every year, but you can’t prevent that if you don’t have a round robin. And, as we are all discovering now, that plan also means contests that have been played for a very long time are not going to happen in some years.
Expand things to 24 or 30 teams, well … that’s gonna be some mind-blowingly unbalanced schedules, but there’s simply nothing that can be done about it.
We’ve had no problem beating Texas lately. Beating Texas is a lot more fun than beating Houston. Beating KSU or OSU is more fun than beating UCF. But I get it. Hopefully it finally leads us to a 10 win season.
Hate to break it to you but we are considered small games to pretty much everyone on our schedule.
Then why do some get a protected rival, while others dont?
18 teams vs 16 teams and the Big Ten is only guaranteeing you see every team home and away once every 5 years instead of 4. There's a lot more flexibility when you've got an extra 9 games to work with.
Well it didn't happen, now what? Lets just roll around in **** and be pissed about it, boohoo!
Yeah, but I don’t care what they think of us. Oh well, it is what it is. The Big 12 did the best they could with this situation.
Hopefully we will still play Iowa every year. That's ISU's biggest rivals. KU and KSU are bigger rivals than KSU and ISU.
I would have preferred pods as well (for the simplicity more than anything), but I'm sure there were a few schools that weren't happy with various pod proposals. The final product is good because we still play every team Home and Away at least 2 times in 4 years. And we play the teams that are relatively close geographically to Ames 3 times in 4 years.
Don't tell me TCU/Baylor (The Revivalry) counts but Farmageddon don't. Very similar.
It must be about KSU having KU more than ISU, and not being willing to give anyone 2.
2 years later no one remembers who you played to get the # of wins you got.
Because we don't have a ******* true rival in the Big 12. It's not that hard.
they weren't going to give ksu 2 protected rivalries and the kstate/ku rivalry is bigger than the one with iowa state.
but but but weve played them 100 years straight curt!!!!!!!!!