The Big 12 Championship Is A Great Idea!
Posted on: June 7, 2016
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The Big 12 is receiving a lot of criticism and ridicule regarding it’s decision to add a championship game starting in 2017. I won’t go into details about the different knee-jerk reactions and their arguments, but I do want to explain the situation in very simple terms, as I understand them. I’m here to tell you, it’s a GREAT IDEA!
First off, the College Football Playoff revenues per conference are approximately $79,000,000, already a sh*t-ton of money! If a conference’s team(s) reach the Playoff semifinals, they’re awarded an extra $6,000,000 per team. Also, if teams reach the Cotton, Fiesta, or Peach Bowls, a conference is awarded $4,000,000 per team. So, what exists is a situation where the conferences are primarily enriched by the totality of the new Playoff structure and less so by earning spots in the Playoff semifinals or lesser bowls. That leaves the rest of a conference’s revenue subject to it’s own program and television rights deals.
What the Big 12 has decided by hosting a conference championship game, is to mitigate the risk of being left out, more so than improving their chances of being invited! That is ‘convexity’ with regard to failure and risk. The risk is failing to get invited, thus losing an amount approaching about $8 million (1 team), if you count the money paid to help the teams’ expenses. However, with the addition of a championship game gauranteeing an added $20 to $30 million, it becomes a ‘no-brainer’, no matter how silly the structuring of the league may seem going forward. That’s dollars and my 2 cents, folks, what think you!?
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I agree – More money and more football. Win-win from my perspective
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I see your point Gabriel,i just feel its just not in our best interest to stay.
It may not be, but in the short term, important to improve league viability, IMO. Besides, this may also help ‘grease’ expansion plans w/ big bad Texas.
Expand with who? We don’t get to pick your mind
Why do we want to expand instead of bolt?
Now you know thats not how we spell it over here!
When we leave (and we will) it will be without Fexas and on our way out the door we will tell them where they can shove big bad Fexas.
Only reason to stay in Big 12 is if we are able to add 2 power five teams that bring competition and tv viewers. If we were able to do that I would say stay but honestly I do not believe that will ever happen. In the end this conference is just slow playing what will happen – explosion.
I want OUt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup.
Me TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO – OUr school out, I mean.
If you’re out of your meeting, I guess that means no OP today 😉
Apparently my karma is gone.
Not on you bro – see my comment.
fake them out and say you’re going to a meeting.
Did you leave the keys in it?
Nicely played!
Dammittttttt,yep thats it.
Nope. It was traded in for a texsa propaganda piece on a CC game and MO MONEY, MO Money – the texsa fight song.
lol
SEE^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What Cush said.
Simple. Elegant. To the point. Unassailable.
Ditto.
Bailer might be our out,maybe!
I tell ya, we need to make sure they get the death penalty and this conference will implode.
Zactly!!!!!!Bob start writing something brilliant daily the to the bor!
Call George Soros to send his paid folks to camp at BU. The news folks would have trucks all over and keep BU in the news. The side benefit is that it would keep some of those folks busy goofing up BU instead of other parts of the country.
Excellent idea, just say Trump rally and it will happen!!!!
Terrible idea….rematch of a game already played is a no win.
All about money. No two ways about it. How do you get to the playoffs? Have a great schedule and beat everyone, duh.
Yep——-
Yep——-
All about money. No two ways about it. How do you get to the playoffs? Have a great schedule and beat everyone, duh.
I agree with the game and reasoning but only having 10 teams negates everything. It’s stupid with 10 teams and a round robin. Greed is getting the better of this conference andits killing it slowly.
No casual fan should have any interest in the money side of football. Thats what toned the conferences initially. So for an extra 4 to 8 million for Kansas i get give a care less.
I might need a translation.
Man that came out jacked.
Basically Money ruined a good thing with several good conferences in college football. I loved the traditions. the debates on whos conference was the best, the natural rivals were your conference mates state borders touched. The debates about 5 to 6 million more per school shouldnt real care to us we just want to see good football.
I understand the pressure to make money right now but this seems to be like putting a bandaid on a broken leg.
Everyone knows that rubbing dirt on it is always the remedy. 🙂
Right, but let’s make sure we have this right, the leg’s already broken and has been, correct? So, what else is their to do besides add revenue for current member institutions?
Shoot the horse and put it out of its misery. Playoff, fine. Payoff, fine. Still slumming in the “football neighborhood.”
Right, but let’s make sure we have this right, the leg’s already broken and has been, correct? So, what else is their to do besides add revenue for current member institutions?
I understand the pressure to make money right now but this seems to be like putting a bandaid on a broken leg.
What do I think? I think we need our OP!!!!!
What do I think? I think we need our OP!!!!!
The problem with this conference has nothing to do with the number of teams, whether we have a championship games or whether we have our own network. The problem is that we are married to a narcissist (UT) and we keep letting him abuse us for his own pleasure. That kind of relationship doesn’t end with the two still married, it ends when the abused gets out of the relationship. It’s time for us to get out.
???.., abusive, huh? Interesting, never knew Texas owning 3rd tier rights and a network would be perceived as violence of sorts.
Metaphor
Abuse takes many forms. The point is everything they do is purely out of self interest and not the interest of any of the other parties. TAMU and NU got out because they got tired of this conference being controlled by Texas.
For the record, I felt LHN was a long-term strategic error. Also, I’m in the camp that dissolution may be the best long-term option and that OU and UT should seek membership in the BIG. Just saying…
Yeah, my point was as much about abuse as it was the narcissistic nature of Texas and how the only way to deal with a narcissist is to get away from them.
I’m in the crowd of lifelong fans that doesn’t want any association with texsa anymore. I won’t spend any more money on the RRR, I don’t care if we never play them again.
I like playing them, but am tired of being played by them to their benefit and the rest of the conference’s detriment. They can take their network and ram it up Bevo’s a$$ while we go elsewhere (hopefully with a yearly OOC game so we can continue the rivalry).
I understand the game on a rivalry level, as I have stated before, to the best of my memory, my 1st OU game was somewhere in early 60’s at a OU/texsa game. I get it. I just don’t want it anymore.
Fair enough. I don’t see a big problem continuing the rivalry after we move to another conference. We played them every year for decades when we were in different conferences.
I would much rather go back and play NU again and drop UT.
I’d happily take both, but I guess if I would have to choose, I’d take the Nebraska rivalry back. Great tradition, better fans, and I respect them more. I do love having the opportunity to beat Texsa every year and I really like not liking them. Either way, I think we would be wise to separate ourselves from Texas in terms the conference we choose.
it’s always kinda been about recruiting DFW metroplex
The DFW exposure could be preserved by continuing to play them in a yearly OOC game. Back to the past.
Blasphemer!!!
with you 100% on this thought……
OK, I can’t go that far, but I’m totally for reverting back to the relationship of the Big 8. We play them once a year, IN FOOTBALL ONLY, and that’s that. That gives us a chance annually to beat on them to our satisfaction.
OU should get out and should have done so several years ago….OU doesn’t need Texas to accompany them into a different league–nor is OSU needed….
Its texsa Gab!
Ohlakoma…
I’ve always referred to them as “arrogant”, your term “narcissist” is much more accurate. You go Bob!
And you certainly do not “fix” a bad marriage by having more kids; i.e. add more teams.
WELL SAID. COULDN’T AGREE MORE………….
The problem with this conference has nothing to do with the number of teams, whether we have a championship games or whether we have our own network. The problem is that we are married to a narcissist (UT) and we keep letting him abuse us for his own pleasure. That kind of relationship doesn’t end with the two still married, it ends when the abused gets out of the relationship. It’s time for us to get out.
It’s good that institutions will be bringing in more revenue I guess, but from a fan’s perspective they’re already playing everyone. I’ve never been a fan of adding a CCG to a ten team round robin, but of course that’s exactly what the big 12 decides to do.
But, just wait till you get your Fan Payout Check in the mail!!
Dirty money!
Its stupid, what if team x is undefeated and in the top 4…and loses to team y and neither go???
C’est la vie
…or don’t lose.
But that is the situation all the other conferences face. That’s part of why they ding us for not having a championship game. It’s not fair.
Same argument the Big 12 had when the other conferences were not playing a championship game.
I didn’t say I agreed with it, but that is the logic being used.
The conference is still richer for it. What if there is not a CCG and no team gets invited? Oh yeah, that happened…
That was before the “one true champion” had a literal meaning…
What if we play in the CCG and Baker goes down. Season over. Great.
What if we play ULM and Baker goes down?
We prolly wouldn’t be in the CCG.
The way we run the ball? I like our chances with any competent QB, even if its a freshman like Kendall.
What if you played in the national championship game and your starting quarterback gets hurt during the first series? Wait…
They wouldn’t have even been there if Bradford didn’t get hurt… 😉
We in the Natty and getting paid a lot of money.
texsa still loses that game
I understand the finances. We all want more money and this would generate a lot for OU. However, it’s falling on deaf ears since most of OU’s fans want out. We could make that same if not more money in another conference. Thanks for your insight.
Agree.., why many Texas fans want out as well!
Is that for Texas independence or for a specific conference?
Are you inferring Texas fans are…..human!
Gabriel, I think the point is that most of us could care less about being in the Big 12 at this point (and hate Texas who has the leverage with their own sweetheart deal = LHN). Thanks for the post, at least we can kick this around some more.
Yeah, I was afraid we weren’t’ going to talk about expansion today.
Worse – making more money for texsa is today’s topic.
ONCE.
perhaps none of those teams deserved to get in? It changes nothing for the positive except money IMO and could be negative for the Big 12 if the higher rated team loses.
Stupid to have if you are already playing everyone. Thought the big 12 was the only conference with a true #1 champion, or so they claim
SO……if a 9-0 team loses to a 6-3 team in the championship, but overall the 9-0 is 12-1 and ranked in the top 5, the 6-3 team wins the B12 and the 12-1 team goes to the playoffs if voted in by the committee?
http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Zachary-Quinto-Confused-Look.gif
It’s pretty much the same as the BCS. You fix this by giving conferences automatic spots and let them decide who they want to send.
You’d need at least a 6 team playoff for that.
Eight teams, five P-5 conference champs, the best team from the G-5, and two wildcards with no more than two from any conference.
That would also work. I think we’ll see 6 before 8 though.
4 conferences, with each sending their champion. VERY SIMPLE BUT WILL TAKE YEARS TO GET THERE.
Do it now with an eight game playoff. All other divisions of football have more games than that in their playoffs.
4 super conferences. play within conference.. win your conference. go to a 8 team playoff. 4 champions, 4 best overall.. bye week. Like it lets do it
They would have to cut a regular season game. They already said they wont go to 16 game seasons(aka the same as NFL regular season).
Just like they always said they would never go above ten games when I was a kid, or eleven games in the ’80s, etc. They say a lot of things, and then do the opposite.
You ask kids to play as many games as the NFL does(the non playoff teams anyway), and the amateur argument gets really hard to fend off.
Plus with the whole concussion and health of football players really being in the spotlight right now.
Thats 2 really big issues that would be hard to overcome at the moment.
In 5 years, if 1 or both of those arguments dies down? maybe.
Yeah I dont see them expanding games, playing one playoff game is pretty tough on these kids as it is.
exactly. Though i wouldnt mind cutting a pointless OOC game to move to an 8 team playoff though.
4 superconferences. Play within conference.. win your conference. go to a 4 team champion playoff. Like it lets do it.
Your suggestion is valid, but, the argument will be a 12-0 Notre Dame team or even a 13-0 conference champion of a non member of the “4 conferences” that has a good win over an “in conference school” champion with a loss or two. It’s sounding more feasible to me, to use the Leach proposal of a 64 team playoff at the end of the season, like BB.
It’s simple. ND can join a conference or they are not eligible to be selected.
Like that’s going to happen.
its past time for Notre Damn to sh** or get off the pot. By that I mean if ND wants consideration for a possible playoff spot, let them join a conference and play a commensurate schedule that qualifies them to represent that conference——and not get a playoff spot as an INDEPENDENT play service academy teams and a partial conference schedule ( like the ACC situation ) ….its past time for ND’s favored status to end….
They’ll bring up the idea that in some years the second place team in a conference may be better than another conference champion. Then what?
Well, I get what you are saying. But remember one of the prime criteria stated by the committee is that you have to be a champion. If they are going to stick to this, losing the Big 12 title game would eliminate any hope of being in the final four. Except if you are clearly better and have one loss less than the 5th ranked team in the committee’s eyes.
Please tell me how the big 12 gets 30 million a year now. Think you get 28 million for a title game so that bring the total to 26.5 million or so to each team. Where is the extra 3.5 million coming from??
We are guaranteed to get at least 1 spot in a top 6 bowl(conference champion), which he said is worth 4 million per team.
They were already in one of the top 6 bowls against the $ec. Bowlsby bamboozled Boren
That would still explain where the extra money was coming from, would it not?
No, because they were already a part of the top 6 bowls so it was already built in the 23 million
Well we have had 2 teams reach top 6 bowls the last 2 years(TCU and baylor 2014, OU and OSU 2015), so that would be an extra 4 million per year, beyond the built in money.
Dosent mean we will earn that every year, but we have the 1st 2 years.
Anthony Hines is visiting OU tomorrow , I don’t if you guys know but Kyler Murray and Devin Duvernay are cousins and apparently Kyler has been recruiting him hard to OU . Also worth noting Duvernay other top school was OU before he committed to Bailer.
Is this today’s OP?
Haha no I just saw all this on Twitter.
We turn everything into an OP anyway haha.
You are a big part of that, you always bring great info here!
I thought we were going to hear something about Creed today, but Hines will do!
Was discussed in the Sooner News some as well.
Guys this is a texsa attempt to make us forget about our OP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Classic texsa.
Cockamamie Shenanigans.
Dastardly machinations.
This wouldn’t have happened if Norvell had recruited better receivers, wait no. I blame Heupel. No that’s old too. How about I blame Kish. No he’s kind of got it going. Bowlsby, I blame Bowlsby there that will work.
Bowlby is a never-fail reason for problems. I think his photo is on the poster for incompetence.
where else could such a ‘do nothing’ pantywaist like Bowlsby earn a 7 figure salary for being a ‘mouth piece’ for the league ‘daddies ? conversely, bowlsby must be a pretty sharp guy to have convinced the league daddies he is actually worth that 7 figure salary ( 2M/yr)…..
Boren did a horrible job recruiting. He needs to work on closing the deal.
DeLoss Dodds bit him and gave him some texsa vampire affliction that keeps him stuck in the 12-2.
This guy——–
Yeah, What happened to waiting until RRS Weekend to visit others sites? Was it not he who said so?
Yep!!!!!!!
I’m guessing turnabout is fair play?
Maybe once, but this is the once!
Click Bate. Thats all this post is.
So, the CCG was (presumably) approved not because it was needed; its just a money grab. That’s the spirit! Keep exploiting these student athletes for all they’re worth!!
Heck yes – the texsa way – MONEY to brag about when not winning enough games to brag.
“How the Big 12 should align its football divisions
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2016/06/07/how-big-12-should-align-football-divisions/85555974/
“Think about this: The Longhorns took in $45.4 million in the Big 12’s payout and LHN revenue before the school accepted a single ticket or donation.”
http://expresioneconomica.org/2016/06/camaraderie-leadership-strong-in-big-12-conference-ku-ad/
Buckaruby jackweeds
Here is how I think how the B-12 should split into divisions.
The Texas Division:
Texas
TCU
Baylor
Texas Tech
The Going to Other Conferences Division:
OU
KU (Basketball)
The On Their Own Division:
OSU
ISU
KSU
WVU
“Here are five suggestions”
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/for-petes-sake/article82019652.html
None of them have a Going to Other Conferences Division with OU in it, so no.
Now that was funny seriously, don’t know why but it was.
Just wondering, Gabriel, did you post this same thread over on the texsa TFB? I’m not going to check because the coloration offends my senses, but thought I’d ask.
I looked, and laughed at the difference in opinions.
Braver than I, KJ. I’m with Slim about cowpies and orange. I always thought that the change from black and white stripes for prison garb to orange was inspired by just how ugly texsa looks.
Yeah, I got to be desperate for foosball news to go over there. I did troll them once and to their credit they knew I was OU immediately. Good for me.
Well 47 doc and i hit them for a day or two,Gab asked we stop until rrr game week.We did as asked as we do have class,f@#$$$#@ texsa
Stay away, Metz. Nothing texsa comes along that won’t produce a gag reflex.
They hate old mikeyboom worser!!! LMAO!
GOOD for Mikey! I like him even better with this kind of un-texsa behavior. Let’em have it Mikey!
Got bleach for your eyeballs?
Tom Selleks Stache probably thought it was the best thing since sliced bread huh?
Haha not sure it was him, but someone commented “This is the best idea the B12 has had in a long time…” or something to that effect…lol
They probably got theirs first thing this morning. And it had so many comments he thought he would try his luck here.
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or so few!! LOL!
“The SEC should just dispense with the formalities, move forward with its master plan of world domination and go ahead and bankrupt the Big 12 and ACC by buying FSU, Clemson, Texas and Oklahoma”
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/football/article81997087.html
That would be a CRAZY Super conference.
However, Texsa would find a way to screw it up as well!!
And they’d be mad that they don’t get their stupid irrelevant network.
No,No, They would probably want to be a part of SEC Network and keep the LHN. Double the money right?
If the steers go to the SEC, we need to everything we can to go to the B1G. We do not need to switch conferences only to be stuck with texsa again. We could have a great built-in OOC rivalry game every year just like when we were in the Big 8.
CAV66 – Dead on perfect!
Agree except for the order. We go to $EC and let Fexas have the B1G. Nebraska would welcome them with open arms.
Not so sure about that. Wasn’t texsa the reason Nebraska got fed up with the conference and left? Am I missing some /s there?
Sorry should have added the /s. My bad.
No worries, I can be a little slow on occasion.
Yes, someone please refresh our memory. How did NU, Mizzou and TAMU get out with the GOR?
did not exist at that time. Just an exit penalty. 10M or so.
In retrospect, money well spent.
Thanks
NOT!
At some point, if texsa diddles around too much, the only conferences that will take them and their giant head will be the leftover 12-2 & ACC also rans or the PAC because their network makes less than the LHN in total.
Ha ha! You said diddle.
i LAUGHED!!!!!!!!!!
Well slim, if you’re texsa ” that’s what you do.”
I’m sure some fool, blinded by dollar signs, will take them in. I just don’t us want to be part of that foolish conference (fool me once…).
Cav, my point is the two largest players may actually “fill up” before the “stuck up girl” realizes she’s not that cute. With few options out west to get to the important number of 16 teams (4 leagues total), the PAC will get desperate and take texsa along with three of their bag-boys schools.
No argument, but I would have missed a prime opportunity to throw out a dig at texsa and the fact that they have a truly annoying tendency of blowing up college football conferences (among their many truly annoying tendencies).
Delaney has been running rings around the SEC lately. That MIGHT prompt them to make a preemptive move, but don’t discount the BI6 moving on 2 or more ACC teams, ND, and OU, KU or texsa. There is no reason to stop at 16 teams if you are a conference “mad scientist.”
18 team super-duper conference. I like it. Lets do it.
Great plan. Except the SEC is smart enough *not* to want whorn. And whorn will never give up The Precious (otherwise known as LWN) which the SEC would force them to do.
Make it OU and either KU or WV and I’m so there. FSU is out since UF is already in, and Clemson is out since USC is already in. They aren’t going to violate that one-state thing (other than the founding members already in).
CRACK is not your friend!
We are in this silly situation because the league failed to act a few years ago. The issue shouldn’t be about just what makes us the most money. Rather it should be what gives the fans the best experience. We traded long time relationships like Nebraska, Colorado and Mizzou for WVU and TCU. It’s all about what’s good for Texas. I could care less about Texas. I want games against teams I value, TCU isn’t among them. Adding Houston or Cincinnati or UCONN, does nothing for me.
After nearly 40 years in California, it’s clear that the ones in charge think small and safe. I think they should be bolder. Don’t talk about doing something, ACT.
After my generation passes, will there be enough folks who want to see games against weak, meaningless teams? I don’t think a fancy stadium will be enough. College football will have to adapt and the ones that move first will do the best. Golf clubs are already facing this challenge. Young folks don’t want to spend 4 to 5 hours on the course plus another hour or so travel and prep time. Among the proposals, make it a 6 hole game.
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That’s why we should be headed to the $EC. Man, I wouldn’t be able to wait to tee it up with the teams in the Southeast. B1G match ups don’t do anything for me.
Ok girls get that natty!Metz out,texsa SUCKS and BOOMER——–
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The MAN among boys JumpTruck! See ya, metz.
Later, can’t wait to talk about the OU Natty tomorrow. Smoke AU!!!
Have good one! Cheer for that amazing GASSO GANG!
I’ll be cheering for women’s softball tonight (there’s something I wouldn’t have expected to ever say when I was growing up). The heck with it…BOOMER & SOONER!!!! Get that national championship ladies!!!! Have a good evening Metz!
Have a great evening!
“We are in this silly situation because DAVID BOREN failed to act a few years ago”. Impeach BOREN, go to the BIG or SEC!!!! Hell yeah!!!!
I think the best way to structure this is to have the top ranked team in the league in the regular season host the championship game at their home field. That way you are rewarding that team for winning the regular season since they will likely be facing a team they already beat. Imagine another OU/Texas game in either Norman or Austin? Also gives teams like WVU a chance to host a game in their area of the country instead of having to come play a neutral site in Dallas etc. if they win the regular season. Otherwise we would end up with many years like last year where OU has to play OSU in consecutive weeks on a neutral field. The same team they just beat on the road by 33 points. If OU has to rematch they should at least get to host that game in Norman. Just my two cents…
rematch games are never good
Agreed. Personally not in favor of the championship game at all outside of the money for the league. But if its going to happen in a league with 10 teams I think this is the most fair way to do it.
so if there’s a tie in standings, game goes to the team that played on the road in rs
Tiebreaker should be head to head though, right?
if divison play happens
Try on that 3-way thing again with this scenario. Back to “mythical standings” and “if a team that beat a team is within 6 spaces” or if they have their own network or lovely orange uni’s, they get in.
Point differential? Just like soccer 🙂
OU/Tex in Norman would be the rowdiest thing ever.
I’d throw brie at them so they’d feel at home.
Make in Limburger.
Problem if WV, KSU, or OSU ever “win.” there won’t be much money from the small stadium.
OSU can sell out what they have. LOL
…to the visiting team right?
There were many years with 1000s of empty seats in kansas city. Whichever team wins the regular season will undoubtedly at least sell out their stadium.
Good Idea!
That’s trying to make sense of the senseless. I agree that, *if* you feel you have to have a CCG, then rewarding the top seed with a home game is the way to go. But, darn it, we can squeeze an extra dime out of a neutral field, and so by golly that’s what we’ll do! Ka-CHING!
It’s going to be weird to split the league up into 2 divisions for 2017. I’ve seen the below arrangement on a lot of sites. My first thought was if there’s ever a season that we don’t end up at the Big 12 Championship game then something is wrong ha.
OU
OSU
ISU
KU
KSU
Texas
TCU
TTU
Baylor
WVU
NO way (as in ZERO) that texsa allows that it has to travel to WVU regularly. Likely for texsa to push for OSU or OU in the south and WV in the north. Since there really are few good teams anymore, it is going to be difficult to set up a “fair” set of divisions.
You would think they would have UT and OU in separate divisions in order to make it to the championship together… that is if UT can make it. I wouldn’t mind having WVU in our division, just not sure who you would take away from ours.
ISU
From what I’ve seen, it’s still going to be a round robin. Texas, like everyone else, will go to Morgantown every other year. They just won’t ever face them in a championship game with these divisions.
big 8 division
SWC division
That groups together the remaining big 8 teams
That groups together the remaining big 8 teams
So, essentially OU vs. the Texas state champion every year for the Big XII championship. OK. I know I’m discounting the possibility of a Mountaineer uprising, but I don’t see that happening too often.
Are there even going to be divisions though? Doesn’t make sense to me.
OU
Oklahoma State
Texas
Kansas State
Kansas
Baylor
TCU
Texas Tech
West Virginia
Iowa State
Since nothing the 12-2 does now makes sense. (Wishful thinking on the last section)
NORTH
Oklahoma State
Kansas State
Kansas
Iowa State
SOUTH
Texsa
TCU
Texas Tech
West Virginia
BANNED AND DEAD
Baylor
GONE TO THE BIG LEAGUES
OU Sooners
No OP thanks gab for taking the place of our OP with more realignment.Ok,yes im home time to cook.Food check,beer check,played Frisbee with Boomer check.Talked with my other fam often today,check.Now lets win it girls,and I mean an kick a mudd hole in that ass and stomp it dry BOOMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOONER! Win it ALL and win it NOW SBallers!
No OP … No problem, even though Brandon PROMISED!!! So … I’m hearing the OU ladies can chew gum AND kick ass and they’re out of gum.
Hell yes!
Championship game with 10 teams is STUPID. End of discussion.
Can not add to that.
Yup.
Definitely don’t like this emoji choice
https://twitter.com/RDMW6/status/740301482843475968
its a bunny, whats not to like?
An ambulance taking a bunny to the er?
Haha I like the way you think. I mean if you squint really hard…
I did and that’s what I got, a bunny!
great
Sweet Jesus, are you for real?
That’s all I gotta go BOOMER!!!!!!!
SOONER!!! C u n the AM.
I learned last year, no way I can keep up on a game day post.I will leave the night crew with hope and cheer, see you guys in the am,and hopefully with a natty,peace my friends—-
Very difficult to keyboard w a drink in your hand. And hard to watch and type. Gonna watch and lurk while drinking.
https://twitter.com/OU_CoachGundy/status/740318847371071488
So we are getting a receiver. Hope its Lamb.
Interesting. Wonder if this has anything to do with Wilson’s June 11th tweet?
This MOST LIKELY had to do with Grant Calcaterra getting invited to the Opening, which is awesome news in and of itself!
https://twitter.com/BrandonTFB/status/740321444106670080
Devin Duvernay down to 3 schools
“I’ve just been talking to Texas, OU and TCU,” the No. 42-ranked player in the ESPN 300 said. “I’m pretty sure (the decision) will come from those three schools.” When I committed to Baylor, Oklahoma was my number two so I have always liked them,” Duvernay said “Kyler is talking to me about Oklahoma now too.”
Duvernay is gonna be a stud… he is big and fast! Would hate to see him go elsewhere, I was amazed by his ability when i saw him practice for the all american game
Remain unconvinced. As I said, the National CFB media does not respect the Big 12. First, they argue that the Big 12 doesn’t have a title game they don’t have to go through the rigors of a 13th game! Now, we get a Championship game and they are saying it was a dumb idea.
I’m late, anyone mention this reeks of texas?
Gabriel, the concept sounds good in theory but in practice I don’t niece it will mitigate risk, but increase it instead when a tram gets knocked off by a 2 loss team, leaving both out of a playoff.
Gabriel, the concept sounds good in theory but in practice I don’t niece it will mitigate risk, but increase it instead when a tram gets knocked off by a 2 loss team, leaving both out of a playoff.
ya its great idea….
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