***2025 Week 1 (Aug 28-Sept. 1) CFB Games Thread***
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The Big 12 is on trial for sure. But you have games where the Big 12 Schools are going up against schools with well over twice the money/resources from tv revenue alone. So when the Big 12 loses a close game, they are scrutanized, but is a Big 10 school like Nebraska ever scrutanized for barely winning despite the huge built in advantages? No, that is never the narative. That is what I am hating about college football.
Nebraska will go 7-5 this year and get called 'back' at some point.
I would say to win more games in the playoffs we need more teams to make the playoffs. Winning out of conference games will help us do that. Does one game matter all that much like Cincy losing to Nebby.... not really. But if the Big XII goes winless in these upcoming games it just feeds the national perception that not only are we not as good as the B1G and SEC, but it will make a stronger case for ACC and group of 5 teams to get in ahead of a 2nd Big XII team. And I think we saw last year that national perception very much sways the committee. It was basically just the damn AP poll.
Beating some P4 teams in the non-con isn’t going to change the narrative for the Big 12. Heck, there are a lot of sports media that still say the Big 12 doesn’t play defense.
2011 ISU played @Uconn before the Big East exploded, otherwise 2002 v. Florida State. I was curious so I peeked at Iowa, looks like 2015 v. Pitt and 2011 v. Pitt*.
Lots of MAC and MWC teams over the years.
*(when they were a part of the Big East)
By SEC logic, that's a quality loss by Cincinnati.
By the Boise State logic, that should get them a bye in the playoffs as well.
It’s been awhile. Maybe it was the year that MAC school Western Michigan punked the hoks in IC and Iowa promptly pussied out of the return game.
Iowa State has been playing 10 P5 games every year for 30 years when the Big 12 was formed in 1996. Without looking, I am guessing that may be the longest streak of any team, definitely more or equal to any B1G or SEC team.
The real kicker is that in the next 5 years the Big 12 and ACC are gonna get road blocked from playing a B1G or SEC team.
A transition to that has begun, with Alabama dropping home/away w/ West Virginia (replaced with East Carolina).
SEC going to 9 games seems like a good thing, but a lot of programs are going to drop non-P2 non-conference games and add G5, so they get FCS + G5 and conference strength becomes more insular, less direct comparison competition w/ Big 12/ACC.
If Nebraska is the undefeated Big 10 champion and Cincinnatti doesn't lose another game...yes it should
I would guess that the BIG and SEC try to form some sort of scheduling alliance. The goal is to make FBS college football into two tiers: P2 (SEC/ESPN vs. BIG/Fox conference) and everybody else (G5+ACC+Big XII)
The SEC and B1G will play one game against each other and two buy games. CyHawk will be done.
There's a chance you're wrong, but I'll lean toward that projection coming to pass. When, I'm not sure, but probably sooner than we think/want.
Going another layer with the concept: I wonder if there would be full rotation of schedule between the leagues, or mainly "haves among the haves" being a smaller rotation, mid-range programs and low-level.
Random example, I can't imagine Rutgers playing Georgia often, or Vanderbilt vs. Ohio State.
