Cy the Cyclone
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I've always hated, since its' inception, the Big 12 Championship Game between the North and the South divisions. Always wanted to have every team in the conference play each other head to head and the last team standing would be the winner...without depending on teams from the North padding their records against the likes of Baylor while teams from the South padded their records against...well, teams from the North. Really...just how indicative is it of a team like Texas or Oklahoma having a 10-2 or 11-1 record when three of those wins come against non-conference cupcakes and three come against the likes of Colorado, Iowa State and K-State? Not only does that put a nominally weak team into a "Championship" game but it also puts them into a position to play in one of the top BCS bowl games. Total asshattery that.
Now, from what I gather, the Big 12 (or 10 or 2+8 or whatever), is finally going to get down to business and put out a schedule that reduces the non-conference cupcake games to three while allowing all the teams in the conference to play head-to-head every season. No more do Missouri fans have to wonder if they could have beat Texas...they will have the opportunity to see every season. Can Kansas beat Oklahoma on a consistant basis? We finally get the opportunity to find. The new schedule will give all the remaining teams in the Big Whatever a chance to renew rivalries that were wrecked by the Big 8/Big 12 debacal while providing a great opportunity to create new rivalries because every team will be seeing each other every year...not just every three years.
When you think about it, if Missouri would have bolted to the Big 12 instead of Nebraska...the Huskers would have had the opportunity to renew college football's classic rivalry and play Oklahoma every year...just like it always should have been.
Now, from what I gather, the Big 12 (or 10 or 2+8 or whatever), is finally going to get down to business and put out a schedule that reduces the non-conference cupcake games to three while allowing all the teams in the conference to play head-to-head every season. No more do Missouri fans have to wonder if they could have beat Texas...they will have the opportunity to see every season. Can Kansas beat Oklahoma on a consistant basis? We finally get the opportunity to find. The new schedule will give all the remaining teams in the Big Whatever a chance to renew rivalries that were wrecked by the Big 8/Big 12 debacal while providing a great opportunity to create new rivalries because every team will be seeing each other every year...not just every three years.
When you think about it, if Missouri would have bolted to the Big 12 instead of Nebraska...the Huskers would have had the opportunity to renew college football's classic rivalry and play Oklahoma every year...just like it always should have been.
but the ultimatum put that possibility to rest.
