I know Colorado is the sexy team right now, but I don't think Prime is long for there when an SEC job offers him. I think TCU and Baylor are the Big 12's best chance at being the consitent top of the league teams due to being in the heart of Texas.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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I don't know. It's so hard to win in that conference. It's possible that Prime can recruit just as good as the top SEC teams and then just dominate the Big 12 and make the playoffs every year. Seems like a pretty good fit for him.
The B12 has taken a perception hit since 2010. Nothing new.
I agree with that. Tech and UCF also have the best recruiting classes coming in and it’s not even really close.
He’ll package himself with his kids. They won’t sign a contract unless you put Deion in as head coach. And someone will bite, cause that’s where we’re at now.
His act won't work there and I think he's smart enough to know that.
If there is any kind of committee, this won't happen. The rankings will just get manipulated to include the teams they want to include.
You all need to pump the brakes on the Prime thing. The media has been hyping him like crazy, but he hasn't proven squat yet at the P5 level. They eeked by a TCU team. The media pumped it because TCU was national runner up, but they are way down from last year. He beat a Nebraska team that has a blue blood name, but we all know they haven't been good for years. Then he needed a miracle to beat a CSU team that isn't expected to do much.
Oregon was the first real competition they faced and they were run off the field. USC will probably handle them easily this weekend too.
There would be no hype about what CU has done so far if they had hired anyone else. And as soon as it becomes clear that Prime isn't the next Saban the media circus will move on and CU fans will go back to whatever better things they usually do on Saturdays.
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It doesn't have to be the same team every year (which will be nice). There will almost always be a Big Xii team that is 11-1 or 10-2 at the worst that makes the CFP. It just takes one UP team in a given year. This is not something about which I am worried.
Agreed. Parity won’t be a problem as long the Big 12 representative(s) have strong showings in the CFP.
The SEC has had a lot of parity the last 20 years and it has helped the league greatly
Apparently Prime's kid that was doing the trash talk in that video was urinating blood a few hours after the game and had to go to the hospital.
Karma. And I guess the guy who wanted to report the crime of murder is one of their S&C coaches.
But in a 12 team playoff, if the Big12 only gets 1 team in the CFP it's failure. The Big12 will be no better than the AAC or MWC.
The benefit of being a perennially good program is you start the year ranked in top 10. And even with a couple losses it's hard to fall. Conversely, a team ranked outside top 25 at beginning of season will struggle to be a top 10 team after going 10-2.
OU & Texas are given the benefit of the doubt in early season polls. The Big12 needs a couple new schools to develop programs that consistently get the benefit of the doubt. It will help in a 12 team playoff structure.
That’s not exactly true as the AAC and MWC would only get one spot between them where a Big12 team is always going to be represented.
Doesn't matter if it's the AAC or MWC. If the Big12 is consistently a 1 bid league, the Big12 will fall further behind Big10 and SEC.
If the Big12 wants to solidify its status as the third best Conference- it needs to be a 2 CFP bid league.
I’m interested to see the criteria for at large bids. I assume strength of schedule will be touted of the mighty SEC and B10 as to why they should get 3-4 at larges each. But if the B10 only plays conference games and a FCS/MAC game for non conference what is the criteria to justify them as a superior conference? Do you default to recruiting rankings or bowl wins from prior seasons? Or conference record against MAC teams in the non-con?
Same way it’s always been, it’s based on the teams you beat and how they are ranked. It’s why perception matters almost as much as the on field product does because those pre season rankings have way more impact then they should.
Yeah but do you see that happening? This is a down year but the future Big12 has only utah and Kansas ranked. That’s not ideal for perception.
The huge problem though is the recruiting for the Big12. There is only one team ranked in the top 25 and that’s Tech at 23. Utah is all the way down there at 73. Season is still young but in order to get two teams in and to make a good showing those recruiting numbers for the conference have to go up.
