It wouldn't have mattered. The big 10 made many bcs championship games with no championship! It's a excuse they have at their disposal. I assure you if it were ANY other team besides Michigan in the big ten TCU or BAylor would have been selected. All $$$$ Baylor would have most likely played kstate last night anyway.
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Indeed. It was silly to put TCU #3 last week and drop them after they win 55-3. It seemed like the system was designed to avoid what happened. Namely, get four teams in the public eye and let someone play their way out of the playoff. TCU didn't play their way out. Instead the committee essentially made this a one week competition for the spots. It mocks the fact that a team could play their way out with a 55-3 win!
Whatever you call it - wouldn't have mattered. Sounded like the committee said Baylor or TCU needed that 13th game for a 12-1 record. 11-1 isn't good enough.
Look @ it this way boys....we in the big 12 are the 5th best conference in the country...lol
FIRE Bowlsbuy and hire a commish with some balls.
FIRE Bowlsbuy and hire a commish with some balls.
So why should ISU get a full share then? We take a helluva more $$$ OUT of the Big 12 than we put IN...
Exactly. If we let them do that to add two more teams, then in ten years when negotiations on a new contract begin we will be then next team along with Kansas who will only get a partial share.
For the same reason why there is not yet a conference comprised of Bama, UT, OU, OSU, ND, FSU, USC, UCLA, LSU, etc. NU was getting paid less by the BIG than Purdue when it joined the conference.
One of the Big 12's disadvantages was unequal power between members. That can also be an advantage.
As far as who this is on, it is on the leaders of the Big 12 back in the mid-2000's who thought too highly of themselves (many of which would later leave) and doomed the conference in the popularity contest that is CFB.
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Baylor defeated a 1 conference loss K-State team last night. That was a conference championship game. Ohio State got in because of how bad they defeated Wisconsin. Wisconsin......a team who had lost to Northwestern and whose best win was over Nebraska.
The key thing is to drop down to 8 conference games and schedule 4 non-conference games. And then you bolster all the teams in your league with another win to inflate their records.
Ah, but you allay to facts. Those do not include the human element of money. Need to expand for level playing field. Need two teams outside our small population footprint.
The conspiracy theorist in me makes me think that the B1G Offices got in touch with Wisconsin and told them it would be worth their while to lay down in the championship game for just this reason. Ohio $tate is not THAT good and Wisconsin is not THAT bad. That was the only chance that the B1G was getting a team in these playoffs, and low and behold....
You could say it is on the Big 12 refs for screwing TCU in the first place against Baylor. At least that is one theory (I didn't see the game).
The Selection Committee chair & Arkansas AD Jeff Long just made a smart aleck comment on ESPN that "there was some joking by the committee to have Baylor and TCU play in a bowl so the Big 12 had a championship game."
Yay...great to think that our Conference was a joke to them the whole time.
Yay...great to think that our Conference was a joke to them the whole time.
Jeff Long is what is wrong with the playoff system: Corruption...Cronyism...Geographical Favortism.....Need I go on...
They were never going to leave the only undefeated Power 5 conference team out of the playoff, especially when that team happened to be the defending national champions with the reigning Heisman Trophy winner at quarterback. If you ever expected anything else, then this isn't so much a conspiracy problem as much as it's a you problem.
This is what I don't understand. Yeah, we play a round robin schedule, but it is not a true round robin schedule due to the fact that you don't have the opportunity to play a home and an away game against each team in the league. I think it is silly we can't just stay at 10 teams, and have the two best teams play each other in a conference championship game at a neutral site.
