Cattle (S) & Hat (N), Brains (N) & Brawn (S), named divisions worked SO WELL for the B1G . . . .
2024 Big 12 Championship Game Projections
- Thread starter Dale
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Eastern Pod = Cinci, UH, UCF, WVU
Old Big Eight Pod = CO, ISU, KU, KSU
Texas Tea Pod = Baylor, OSU, TCU, TTU
Western Pod = AZ, ASU, BYU, UT
3 games against your own pod
2 each against 2/4 teams in the other pods = 2 * 3 = 6
= 9 games
The schedules are still going to be unbalanced but less so.
I actually like that. To me, it does balance somewhat over the long term (at least you can count on a home and home with teams from every other pod over a 4 year span.
I still love the 10 team league though, playing everyone. This year feels weird, with so many teams that we don't play not even seeming like they're in the conference from a fan's perspective.
These features would be additional bonuses.
As you said, one is guaranteed a road trip to every Big 12 school once in your four years.
It spreads out the travel better for the far eastern and far western schools. Putting Houston in the eastern pod works because it is one of the easier cities in the Big 12 to get to (up with Dallas).
I miss the eight- or ten-team league but this is the world we live in now.
If BYU wins and Colorado losses this week we are left out given all favorites win the final week except if WVU beats Texas Tech the final week (or OSU beats Tech this week.
Divisions aren't even balanced when you play different crossovers. There's no good way to create a completely fair championship game matchup with this many teams.
If what you're saying is correct, then another way to put it...
If ISU, Colorado, and BYU win this weekend, then our title game hopes lie squarely on BYU (and us obviously) but Colorado's final weekend is meaningless to us.
If we win vs. K-State...
BYU wins, we are out.
BYU loses, we are in.
Add some teams and get 4 pods of 5. Each year you combine pods to create 2 divisions. Division champs play in the CCG. Rotate the pod combinations every year.
You get to play each team every 3 years, can keep geographical rivalries within the pod, and you keep even schedules for determining the CCG contestants.
That would be crazy for KU. Beating 3 ranked teams in 3 weeks and still having a losing record.
Not fully control but it would be very very likely we are in. It would take a Colorado and ASU win + BYU loss to keep us out
Done:
Iowa St. over Kansas St.: 44.8% (0.0% to 44.8%)
Iowa St. over Utah: 40.3% (0.9% to 41.2%)
Kansas over Colorado: 15.3% (16.8% to 32.1%)
Houston over BYU: 8.9% (24.8% to 33.7%)
Arizona St over BYU: 8.7% (21.1% to 29.8%)
Oklahoma St. over Colorado: 8.2% (22.4% to 30.6%)
Arizona over Arizona St: 4.2% (23.8% to 28.0%)
Kansas St. over Cincinnati: 2.6% (23.5% to 26.1%)
Oklahoma St. over Texas Tech: 2.0% (24.5% to 26.5%)
West Virginia over Texas Tech: 2.0% (24.8% to 26.8%)
Couldn’t fit all the teams on one screenshot but there still is a possibility of an 8-way tie of 6-3 teams for first place and Baylor and would play in the championship game. Obviously lots of things would have to happen for this scenario to work.
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Exactly how I feel. At least with divisions, the CCG participants are decided based on football games, not the combined average opponent win percentage in conference during games with rain and an easterly wind
