📡 Big 12 engaged in plans to split into two seven-team divisions beginning in 2023 amid realignment

 

[bama alum]

That won't hide the reality that these are just excitingly average teams...at best.

 

[Davestwin]

Better late than never doesn’t quite ring true here.

 

[rick4bama]

I'm thinking another Conference has did this already!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Tired of playing all in conference....get more gimmy games on schedule...
O wait...that isnt better

 

[mando]

Yawn!!!!

 

[TerryP]

Tired of playing all in conference....get more gimmy games on schedule...
O wait...that isnt better

They just need to add the word "playoff" to the games: it's better then.

 

[TerryP]

A few things that jump out to me here.

Did you notice how the associate commish mentions "if you have 12 the NCAA says you must split?" (sic) Perhaps I'm wrong though I don't think so. It's worded you have to have 12 to split, not you have to split if you have 12.

They also mention how they don't want to have to restructure schedules/divisions when OU and TX leave. If it's two, six team divisions they'd be playing a 5-3 or 5-4 model, right? How's that going work with 14 for the next couple of years. Is it going to be an eight game or nine game schedule going forward. (It would be quintessential Big 12 to brag about playing a nine game conference schedule only to change to get a team in the playoffs.)

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One of the inexplicable points the media tries to push here is "look at how many teams would be in a 12 team playoff."

No. Let me take that back. Here's a point, intellectually dishonest at its core, that Dodd tries to push.

If the Big 12 had been at 14 teams in 2021, it would have finished with four top-10 programs: No. 4 Cincinnati, No. 5 Baylor, No. 7 Oklahoma State and No. 10 Oklahoma. Using the 12 teams that will go forward in 2026, the Big 12 would've had five top-20 schools: No. 4 Cincinnati, No. 5 Baylor, No. 7 Oklahoma State, No. 17 Houston and No. 19 BYU.

That point is so fundamentally flawed I'm at a loss.