OT: Big XII Schedule Released
After West Virginia was cleared to join the Big XII, the Big XII announced their schedules today.
As no surprise, TCU and Texas will meet on Thanksgiving. Note TCU's first half of the conference schedule, then look at the second half.
Oklahoma still has two OOC games to schedule and Oklahoma State needs one more.
The entire conference slate can be seen here.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:01 PM ^
Did they re-align the divisions putting OU in the North?
February 14th, 2012 at 12:04 PM ^
no championship game
February 14th, 2012 at 12:04 PM ^
They still will only have 10 teams, so no divisions. A&M and Mizzou are going to the SEC.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:18 PM ^
No split, only 10 teams as of now, with the addition of TCU and WVU.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:17 PM ^
There are rumors about BYU and Louisville joining the conference in the future. My guess is, if that happens:
North
BYU, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State.
South
Baylor, Louisville, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech, West Virginia.
Unless they split into East and West
February 14th, 2012 at 12:03 PM ^
Makes it more clear just how assinine the reality of West Virginia being in that conference really is.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
February 14th, 2012 at 1:31 PM ^
Whenever I see the word Asinine, I think to myself her face was about a 4, but her..........nevermind.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
You might want to use your spell check when deploying a synonym for "extremely stupid." Just sayin'.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:26 PM ^
I'm looking forward to seeing how TCU does in the league. I think they could be legitimately great now that they'll be able to tap into Texas recruiting even better
February 14th, 2012 at 1:24 PM ^
I second that...if TCU can continue to win (albeit with a few loses in the short term) it will be interesting to see if they can grow into a conference power like Wisconsin who's capable (key word:capable) of running the table.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:41 PM ^
I really hate it when conferences have geographic outliers. I don't get why the SEC didn't invite WVU instead of Mizzou. Is it because of their academics? The SEC has Mississippi and Mississippi State, fergodsakes!
February 14th, 2012 at 1:27 PM ^
just from a purely common sense perspective, WVU to the SEC makes MUCH more sense. They seem a better fit culturally, also. As for Mizzou, shoulda just stuck with the Big XII - II. Were it not for Texas, that'd still be an intact conference.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:42 PM ^
It's all about money and markets. Mizzou has St. Louis and Kansas City. West Virginia has...what city is WVU in? What's WVU's capital? Are they even close to any big cities? DO THEY EVEN HAVE TELEVISION???
February 14th, 2012 at 1:54 PM ^
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- Ish
- No
February 14th, 2012 at 2:28 PM ^
Mountaineer fan's response:
1. Morgantown
2. Morgantown
3. Morgantown is a big city
4. Morgantown does.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:46 PM ^
Missouri is contiguous to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas while West Virginia is contiguous to only Kentucky. Geographically, Missouri probably made more sense to the SEC and I'm guessing the SEC decision makers didn't take the Big12's feelings into consideration when they poached Missouri.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:33 PM ^
Oklahoma has 1 open date. They play ND on Oct 27th.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:37 PM ^
They still need to schedule 2 more non-conference games.
UTEP and Rutgers have been floated out there as a possibility for one game.
OU's open weeks are 1, 2, 3, and 5. Two of those will be filled with OOC games, two will be bye weeks.
February 14th, 2012 at 2:44 PM ^
Has Oklahoma played a 1-AA team before? they seem like a team who tries not to schedule them. I'm guessing they'll have to bite the bullet and get a 1-AA team to fill that gap on such short notice.
February 14th, 2012 at 4:02 PM ^
WVU could easily lose four or five games in conference this season. Dropping FSU will end up looking like a pretty good decision for them if they barely scrape into a bowl with a 7-5 record.
February 14th, 2012 at 11:32 PM ^
Texas's conference schedule is brutal.