The reality is that OU and Texas propped up the entire big12.
The other 8 teams have little value. The tv payouts will be much much less.
If I were OSU, Kansas, Kansas State, West Virginia and Tech I would beg, grovel, plead, etc. with all the FBS conferences to let them in. Then let the rest go to the FCS.
Go with an 8-team playoff system. This is an easier sell than a 12 team playoff system. You could rotate an 8 team playoff thru NFL sites on the Central (Dallas, Detroit or Minneapolis) with the East (Atlanta, Charlotte or Miami) & West Coasts (Los Angeles, Phoenix or Las Vegas).
More stable than doing nothing while everyone tries to get out? That's kind of my point. I just don't see another option.
Yeah, groveling will convince them. Not many situations in life where the groveling option is a good plan.
I disagree and, honestly, I say this as a three time OU alum, a lot of OU fans have just looked like a-holes crapping on conference partners from a century. Many of the remaining Big 12 teams are good partners with good athletic programs. OSU, for example, has been consistently good at football and basketball and has had great success in several other sports. Kansas raises the basketball profile of the whole conference. I could go on, but the remaining Big 12 teams are just as good as Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt.
The thing is conference realignment isnt about how good an athletic program overall is. It is not about how many wrestling NC's or women's soccer NC's a school has. The bottom line is how big of a football audience do you have. How many people do you have who tune in game in and game out for football.
Yes some of the irate 8 have better programs than Ole Miss, MSU etc but the difference is those teams already have a seat at one of the 4 tables.
Oklahoma State has a competitive program; they could knock off OU & Texas, go undefeated and win the championship game--you're in.
Yes, this is the most obvious way to punch OU, Texas and the SEC in the proverbial nuts. Would be a ball buster for them if The Playoff remains at four teams. Will be very difficult for OU and, especially, Texas to make the final four if they have to beat out clutch southern teams like Alabama and Vanderbilt.
From what I understand, everyone does really want an expanded playoff. Using this excitement and momentum, ESPN apparently was pushing hard for it to happen sooner than later so they can cash in on the expanded playoff coverage under their TV contract. Word is that the playoff committee is holding back now waiting for the current contract with ESPN to expire so they can field more lucrative dollar deals for playoff coverage, and will also let this conference realignment stuff cool off. The current TV contract with them expires 2025-26 which also coincides with the Sooners and Longhorns officially moving.
I heard this on a nationally syndicated radio show, can't remember who was talking.
I suggest Boise State and BYU. I think that part of the country is fast growing and underserved in sport viewing. Eyeball potential that will be better served by future infrastructure. By 2025 it might be seen as the new growth area. And the mountain time zone evening starts might be just early enough to keep the eastern time zone viewers (and talking heads).
I think UCF has a massive student body and would be a net positive (not vs OU or UT, but vs existing 8). Give them a non directional name and they would be much more legitimate right now.
I’m struggling between Houston and Cincinnati. Houston obviously gives reach in a top ten market, but I don’t think much beyond. And I have little usable knowledge of the south Ohio and north Kentucky area that Cincinnati would draw.
Big 12 votes to accept adding BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, UCF to conference: https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ucf-conference
small detail... that's the logo for byu idaho, not the byu invited by the b12.
Can't wait to see the Sooners destroy teams this coming season!
99 days until college football!!!!
https://www.si.com/fannation/college...gan-wolverines
Softball Tournament will probably be played in OKC. This will give SEC schools a preview of USA Hall of Fame Stadium.
Baseball is experimenting with the MLB ballparks to give players that Major League Ballpark feel; attendance looks dismal in those huge palaces. There will be a tossup between Globe Life Field (Arlington), Minute Maid Park, Houston and Loan Depot Park, Miami--these parks have retractable roofs. Look for the SEC baseball to go back to the campuses or cities like Birmingham, Charlotte, Memphis, Nashville, Oklahoma City or Raleigh where the ballpark are in the 10,000 - 15,000 seat capacity range.
Wrestling SEC schools do not have wrestling except for Missouri, they compete in the Mid Atlantic Conference. Oklahoma & Missouri.
Gymnastics: Florida, Auburn, LSU, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas & Oklahoma will have gymnastics.
Look for OKC Paycom Center to bid on tournaments & NCAA national events. University of Texas only has recreational and competitive gymnastics.
^^ Missouri wrestles in the Big 12 conference as an affiliate member.
TV viewership does not look good for the big12 after OU and texas leave.
Last weekend there were 4 conference games. Only 1 game featured 2 unranked teams.
OU vs Texas 3.4 million
TCU vs Kansas 1.3 million
OSU vs Tech 1.63
KSU vs ISU 373k
Those numbers aren't apples to apples comparisons. OU Texas was on network television while the other games were on FS1 and KSU ISU was on ESPNU.
A better comparison would be to see how these games faired in comparison to other games on the same Channel in the same time slot.
Week 5 2:30 game on FS1 Michigan State-Maryland 904,000
Week 6 2:30 game on FS1 Texas Tech-Oklahoma State 1.63 million
Just looking at week 5 ratings tells you how many more viewers network broadcasts get:
OU-TCU (ABC) 2.4 million
OSU-Baylor (Fox) 2.4 million
Texas-WVU (FS1) 1.2 million
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