*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****
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This is from Wednesday, Nov 9
In 14-team SEC, 8 conference games may not be enough and 9 could complicate matters - The Washington Post
SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said the conference will play eight games in 2012 and a nine-game slate “hasn’t been discussed.â€
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Athletic directors would prefer to keep an eight-game schedule, according to a person familiar with early discussions among those in charge.
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While most coaches and administrators say they want to stay with an eight-game schedule, extra conference games could generate more revenue and be more attractive to television partners.
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If the rivalries are protected — and that appears to the priority — and the schedule stays in a similar format with just one rotating interdivisional opponent, it could mean Texas A&M would visit the other six SEC East stadiums once every 12 years.
Agree.
If ND becomes a B12 FB member with Louisville (Plan A), there will likely be 8 conference games to accommodate ND's nonconference scheduling requirements.
Look for a 9 game schedule if they expand to 12 schools w/o ND.
I still can't believe this thread is going... Haven't you guys beat the entire subject to death yet? Jesus
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If all the other major conferences go to nine games it's not as big of a deal for the Big 12 to do it. What you would see then, is 4-5 more MAC/CUSA/WAC/MWC/SunBelt teams in bowls every season than you do now.
Right now this season, the 9 game schedule is effectively saying "Please give us less bowl games even though we're the #1 conference by a mile in every computer ranking".
That's insane.
FWIW regarding Louisville, besides being a geographic fit, a recently expanded football stadium and a marquee basketball name, they have a larger athletic department budget than Missouri.
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An unintended consequence of all the big conferences going to nine games could be the loss of some non-BCS programs. That is around 70 less payout games available for MAC/CUSA/WAC/MWC/SunBelt teams that depend on the check from being sacrificial lambs a few times a season to fund their programs. With 9 confrence games most schools will have one FCS tune-up, one game against a BCS school from another conference, and just one paycheck game with a non-BCS school rather than the two they have now.
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Which is why at some point, with everyone going to 9 games, you might have to see the postseason eligibility criteria revised. 6-6 is a pretty arbitrary number that tells you nothing about how good a team is. 6-6 in the b12 or SEC is a much better team than 6-6 in the big 10, PAC, or other conferences.
Actually, I think you're going to see a lot fewer intra-BCS conference games as a result of this. A lot of schools are going to need the three sacrificial lambs to even have a shot at making a bowl game (or improving their stock) and thus can't risk the loss to a higher quality opponent. The Cy-Hawk Game could become a rarity in college football, if we don't see the termination of it altogether.
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Is everyone as excited as me about getting to 20,000? Is that why this thread is still around?
We can only hope. I'd favor selecting teams based on an expanded BCS ranking vs an arbitrary number of wins.
The computer 1/3 would make up for the radical differences in schedule strength. Missouri and A&M are teams that could hang with almost anybody on a given week, they just played a grind of a schedule. Missouri has played 7 teams in the Sagarin top 30.
I think if Iowa and ISU are both playing 9 conference games, and 6 wins is still the post season bar, both programs would favor some kind of 2, 3 or 4 year rotation, but not ending it altogether.
Is there any real reason the series couldn't become regularly scheduled, but not every year?
I would be in favor of a change to something like this. Maybe a 2 on, 2 off situation or an Ames, off, IC, off, rotation.
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