The Big 12 weak?

chamrocck

chamrocck

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Interesting article. Conferences seem to go through various up and down swings once in awhile. Heck, Texas is the defending national champ, so how weak can the Big 12 be, right?

I always find the argument of the strongest conferences interesting. I know SEC fans are always very confident (and yes sometimes annoying <_< ) that they are by far the strongest conference.

I had searched in the past to no avail, but does anyone know of an online source that tells the conference records (say over the last 10 to 20 years) in bowl games? I think this would be a really good measure and a long enough time period for relevance to see how each of the conferences stack up and if there are trends/surprises/etc. If someone has this data, would be really cool to see and possibly "pin" for bowl season.

 
First of all, I would like to point out that there are more college sports than football (yes, I know how that sounds). Baylor, which sucks at Football, is a great Baseball program. Also, think about OU...if they don't lose Bomar, Quinn, and Peterson, think where they would be. The Big XII is more compettive than it's been in awhile, and 5 teams in the top 25? (Texas, Mizzou, OU, A&M, Nebraska) That's not too shabby. It may not be as strong as it has been in years past, but it's still a damn good conference, and very competitive.

 
I didnt care for the derogitory tone the writer had to nebraska though.

"Indeed, Nebraska on Saturday was one late fumble away from defeating the Longhorns - which probably would have only added to the conference's negative national perception."

"You will probably see (Nebraska) in Kansas City," Texas coach Mack Brown said in reference to the Big 12 championship game on Dec. 2. "We hope we'll have an opportunity for a rematch, but we've got to play a lot better than we did today to have that opportunity."

There you go. Texas had just defeated arguably the best team the North could offer and Brown is suggesting the Longhorns, with three South Division teams remaining on their schedule, will be lucky to reach the championship game.

Brown was being politicly correct. It is bad form to go out and tell the reporters that you will win all your games.

 
Interestingly, NU and Mizzou are the only two teams in the North Division who are bowl eligible. The likelyhood of one other team becoming bowl eligible are quickly disappearing:

 
this is BS. Are we basing how strong a conference is on where the teams are ranked? The SEC teams hardly play anyone outside their own conference. The only reason they DO stay ranked is because the only ranked teams they play are eachother. We played USC, Texas played Ohio State for two years in a row...who are the SEC teams playing?

If everyone was ranked in the Big XII, we'd be #1 by now probably.

It's just like I'm getting tired of people saying we play cupcake teams. Every program plays a cupcake team. And if you don't...then YOU'RE the cupcake team! They're preseason warmups.

Not to mention, should I remind you that Colordao almost beat Georgia? SEC needs to travel out of the South a little bit. Come over to the Big XII and get a back to back year with us. I'd love to play Florida again.

 
It's just something to print. No enough "news worthy" stuff going on this week in college football to go around unless you want to talk about how the great Notre Dame program through shear will, power and superiority squeeked by a far inferior team that obviously was playing above it's potential. You now how it goes with ND football.

Do you really think Miami, FSU or Florida would be chomping at the bit to play Texas, NU or OU right now? Do you think USC would like to come into Lincoln right now and play us again? I'd say if anything this year thus far shows a trend toward better and better teams coming out of the Big 12 in the next few years.

We may be headed to a situation where 4 or 5 teams in the Big 12 could beat all but the elite of any conference in college football and even a few of the elites.

The key is recruiting. USC, Texas, the Florida teams, ND, Penn State, Ohio State etc. win because they get talent. Granted the Florida teams sometimes can't get them all to play together but they still get talent.

 
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