No. I meant that every B12 team gets their own pod except for KU and KSU, who would share one pod.
If B12 goes to a three-pod system ...
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Obviously should be...
OLD BIG EIGHT
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ISU
KU
KSU
OSU
TEXAS
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Baylor
Houston
TCU
Tech
NEW FRIENDS
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BYU
Cinci
UCF
WVU
Always play the other three in your pod = 3
Play 3/4 on rotation from the other two = 6
(This would guarantee at least one road game per year in Texas for everybody.)
= 9 conference games
Big 12 championship game are the top two in the conference.
OLD BIG EIGHT
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ISU
KU
KSU
OSU
TEXAS
---
Baylor
Houston
TCU
Tech
NEW FRIENDS
---
BYU
Cinci
UCF
WVU
Always play the other three in your pod = 3
Play 3/4 on rotation from the other two = 6
(This would guarantee at least one road game per year in Texas for everybody.)
= 9 conference games
Big 12 championship game are the top two in the conference.
I was joking. Your statement seemed like it was mocking the pod system which I found funny…..everyone has their own pod. I find the whole realignment era nauseating and detrimental to college sports. The original Big 12 was a great conference for the long haul but ego and greed ****** it up. Now we’re all jaded.
Not exactly. OSU has been pretty adament they want to have A LOT of Texas exposure for recruiting. I REALLY don't like grouping all the Texas schools together. Putting BYU with Eastern time zone schools make 0.0 sense...
ISU, KSU, KU
OSU, Tech, UH
Cincy, WV, UCF
BYU, TCU, BU
10000% better
I prefer we all stop using the word POD when describing the future of the Big 12.
Pac-12 scraps divisions after NCAA paves way
After the NCAA Division I Council tossed out requirements that dictate how football conferences can determine a champion, the Pac-12 announced Wednesday that it was scrapping its divisional format for the coming season.
www.espn.com
How about this:
No out of conference games. Everyone plays everyone = 11 regular season games
Then top 4 go to a conference tournament to decide ultimate conference champ.
8 teams end up with 11 games, 2 play 12, and 2 play 13. Then bowls of course.
I would just love to see the Big 12 say "F--- everyone else. We are only going to play each other. Bedlam be damned, Cy-Hawk be damned. WVU and KU have already sacrificed their rivalry games. All we need is each other."
No out of conference games. Everyone plays everyone = 11 regular season games
Then top 4 go to a conference tournament to decide ultimate conference champ.
8 teams end up with 11 games, 2 play 12, and 2 play 13. Then bowls of course.
I would just love to see the Big 12 say "F--- everyone else. We are only going to play each other. Bedlam be damned, Cy-Hawk be damned. WVU and KU have already sacrificed their rivalry games. All we need is each other."
I put together a potential protected rivalry arrangement for a 5-team format. This would be best in an 8 game conference schedule where the other 6 teams are rotated (play everyone else 2 times in 4 years). I have ISU keeping rivalries against the old Big 8 teams, along with the Riot Bros, and Cinci.
Some of these can definitely be shifted around. I had an especially hard time with BYU, WVU, and UCF.
Some of these can definitely be shifted around. I had an especially hard time with BYU, WVU, and UCF.
No real key.
The top part is the "protected rivalry" pairings,
In my scenario our "protected rivalries" are K-State, Kansas and Okie State. (Midwest schools)
Okie State has us, K-State and Houston. (Ag-based and a mini-red river shootout)
BYU has TCU, Baylor and Texas Tech (West and religion)
And so on. These can be changed but the key is each team gets three and they are not in pods.
The bottom part is our conference schedule.
In year one we play everyone except UCF and Houston.
The next year we play everyone except Texas Tech and TCU.
Eight conference games work best for the rotation (assuming we have 12 teams) and opens the door for another non-conference game.
That is why I stopped at three protected rivalries. For some schools it was easy. For others, I felt like I was forcing rivalries.
By stopping at three and having each team play the remaining schools six times every eight years, it kept mini-rivalries available. Keeping at three protected rivalries also enables back-to-back years for the non-rivalry games to help with some revenge narratives.
