NCAA Vote allows Big 12 to stage championship game
http://www.thescore.com/news/935546
I'll hold my personal opinions on this matter here.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:33 PM ^
Cool. It should add another entertaining football game to the docket.
January 13th, 2016 at 6:57 PM ^
which already took place the season and further dilutes the importance of the on campus games
January 13th, 2016 at 8:38 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 10:16 PM ^
Yes, I think this could help us more often than hurt us in regards to finding a spot in a 4 team playoff.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:36 PM ^
massaging the rules for it's own convenience like letting Clemson practice as much as Bama was able to, whatever.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:42 PM ^
Yep. Those universities need to be shut down. All of them.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:38 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 5:38 PM ^
I'm putting the over/under on how many times this game is actually held at 3.5. Any takers?
January 13th, 2016 at 5:41 PM ^
I'll take it.
January 13th, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^
...don't you have to take either the under OR the over to take it?
January 13th, 2016 at 9:32 PM ^
You're more lkely to win if you decide later.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:39 PM ^
Boooooo. Not fair. We had to expand to get a championship game. So should they. If this happens, I hope it works out so that the wrong team wins it, causing the Big 12 to miss out on the playoff.
January 13th, 2016 at 7:46 PM ^
But if we didn't add 2 teams and got a championship game with ten teams The Game would at its best would have been a dress rehearsal. The Ten Year War would have had 16 Bo vs Woody games (not that I wouldn't have enjoyed that).
January 13th, 2016 at 5:41 PM ^
Man up and add two teams
January 13th, 2016 at 5:44 PM ^
There are a few options out there too like Houston, BYU or even San Diego St. and Boise St.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:48 PM ^
This is great for Big 12 fans and athletes that get to compete in the game. It's also great for athletes that don't have to travel to Utah or Idaho or wherever to play in non-revenue conference games just so football can hold a championship.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:56 PM ^
It's just that we along with other conferences had to expand to keep up with the Joneses and now they lax on the rule.
BYU is not far from Colorado which used to be in the Big 12. Also, we live in San Diego so we got that going for us!
January 13th, 2016 at 7:47 PM ^
Nice proper use of the indirect object pronoun whom!
/anti-grammar nazi (grammar mother theresa?)
January 13th, 2016 at 11:22 PM ^
I really try to use proper punctuation and grammar, sometimes I fail miserably!
January 15th, 2016 at 10:48 PM ^
Nice use of the comma splice to illustrate your weaknesses....
January 13th, 2016 at 6:11 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 6:40 PM ^
That's who. Never forget!
January 13th, 2016 at 6:56 PM ^
it's going to be a complete embarrassing failure most years. Half empty stadium at best
No one wants any team from that conference except for texas/OU, and that conference couldn't find any team willing to join that's worth a damn. That's why they're heading this route
January 13th, 2016 at 7:51 PM ^
If it is always a rematch, they could host it at the home stadium of either the team that is higher in the conference standings or the team that won the first match. Either way the stadium should be full.
/didn't read article,,,the plan may be to play it at a neutral site in JerryWorld Texas.
January 13th, 2016 at 6:02 PM ^
BYU is a non-starter for any P5 conference. No one wants that restriction of never being able to play any sporting event against BYU on Sunday.
January 13th, 2016 at 10:43 PM ^
Houston and Colorado. Get the PacXX to take BYU and then they get a more natural in-conference rival for Utah.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:45 PM ^
How hard is it to add a Cinci, Boise State, Houston, BYU(Get the mormon issue)
January 13th, 2016 at 6:09 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 6:22 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 6:27 PM ^
Acceptable collateral damage.
January 14th, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
I really enjoy having Nebraska. Rutgers sucks, but the Huskers were a great add
January 14th, 2016 at 12:15 PM ^
I enjoy having Nebraska as well. My wife graduated from Nebraska, so occasionally getting to watch Michigan pummel them is tremendous (I still hear about who was the "real" NC winner in '97...ugh).
January 13th, 2016 at 5:45 PM ^
A conference should be able to hold a championship game whether it has 8 teams or 16 teams. Some other conferences added teams to get a championship game when the obvious solution would have been to lobby the NCAA or propose to the change the rule. 10 years ago the PAC10, Big10, ACC, and Big East all could have gotten together and pushed to get the rule changed. Between them and a lot of the smaller conferences I don't see how this wouldn't have passed. it's just kind of funny how this passes now that all the conference jumping chaos has already happened.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:46 PM ^
What does the NCAA have to do with the football post-season anyway? Who were they to dictate that sort of rule? I was always confused by why they stuck their nose in there.
I would have liked to see the Big 12 add a couple more teams just so that all P5 conferences would ahve a consistent 12 or 14 teams, not this 10-or-12-or-14 crap. Oh, and it would be good for the Big 12 to actually have 12 teams but that's not as B1G a problem.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:50 PM ^
I'll trade them Maryland and Rutgers for cap space so we can get back to 12.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:51 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 5:50 PM ^
Seems to me the need for a Championship game is when you do NOT have a round-robin. E.g., When you have two elite teams that don't have the opportunity to play each other (because they're in some mega-conference where a round-robin is not logistically possible. Then you let them settle it on the field.
Now, if one team goes 9-0 ...... they'd have to "re-validate" that they are Champions by beating a team they already beat!
Same thing in the case of a tie up top at 8-1.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:51 PM ^
Your point makes total sense.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:56 PM ^
In the other conferences, it's only sometimes a rematch. For instance: Pac-12 was this year, B1G was not.
I don't love the B1G Championship game and divisions. Personally, I think the perfect number of teams in a conference is nine (full round-robin, each team has an equal number of conference road and home games, 4 OOC games apiece).
But even if the B1G Championship game is a re-match it's basically the only way to crown a true conference once you get to 12 (or even more!) teams.
January 13th, 2016 at 11:15 PM ^
8, 9-team conferences would make each champion a playofff entrant. And there really aren't more than 50 schools that will likely ever make an 8-team playoff.
8-game round robin in conference, 3-4 cross-conference games within the 8 conferences, then seeding of the 8 champions.
And since MSU isn't an original conference member, they join the MAC when the 4 newbies all leave.
January 13th, 2016 at 11:49 PM ^
Nice to dream about and speculate, but I don't think it could possibly work.
Take the 64 current Power 5 teams + Notre Dame + (Houston, SMU, Rice, Cincinnati, UCF, BYU and Boise State). The last 7 have either (a) been generally successful of late, and/or (b) are legacies from the old SWC.
(1) Old Big Ten - Minnesota
(2) Old Big Eight + Minnesota
(3) Old 10-team SEC - Vanderbilt
(4) The old 9-team SWC
(5) Old Pac-10 - Washington State
(6) The old 9-team ACC (what it was when Florida State joined)
(7) "Big East" (sort of): BC, Miami, ND, PSU, Pitt, Rutgers, South Carolina, Syracuse, WVU
(8) Unfortunately, this is where it breaks down. "Leftover" conference: Boise State, BYU, Cincinnati, Louisville, UCF, Utah, Vanderbilt, VT, Washington State.
January 13th, 2016 at 6:31 PM ^
Yes, their conference playing a round robin actually should solve any issues because EVERY TEAM ACTUALLY PLAYED EVERY TEAM. The only way this could be made any more "fair" is to have a home and away but that would double the length of the season.
Once again the NCAA reveals that when $ comes up against sporting logic and rationality, $ will win.
January 13th, 2016 at 5:57 PM ^
The commissioner also noted he's unsure how the top two teams will ultimately be determined since the Big 12 doesn't have divisions.
Oh, beautiful. We could just simplify it, of course. Baylor, and then the opponent would be selected by a round of musical chairs or double-elimination Kerplunk.
January 13th, 2016 at 6:06 PM ^
I know they're not at the forefront of college football --- but for those that care, this ruling really puts the screws to them.
MWC won't need Hawaii any more for 12 and a Championship game. So it's potentially "good bye Rainbow Warriors. Good luck surviving as an independent at the FBS level!"
The Sun Belt doesn't currently have a Championship game, but a primary reason for inviting Coastal Carolina was to get the conference to 12. Well, don't need 12 any more, and now they don't need Idaho or NMSU as western geographic outliers. The MWC won't need them either. So it's likely a demotion to FCS and the Big Sky for them. They too can't survive as an independent at the FBS level.
January 14th, 2016 at 12:12 PM ^
I get it, but if the only reason you're in the FBS is because your existence allows actual good programs to field a conference championship game then maybe you should be in the FCS anyway. Idaho needs to drop down and rejoin the Big Sky.
January 13th, 2016 at 6:06 PM ^
January 13th, 2016 at 6:12 PM ^
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January 13th, 2016 at 6:39 PM ^
Not to mention thy're very good in baseball, lacrosse, and soccer
January 13th, 2016 at 7:53 PM ^
I particularly like what they added last night --- QUALITY WIN!
January 13th, 2016 at 6:07 PM ^
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