Link: Art Briles Just Pooped His Pants - Big 12 Teams Must Now Play at Least 1 P5 OOC Team

RTR91 · Dec 8, 2015

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In an effort to improve the league's strength of schedule ratings, the Big 12 has announced a new scheduling requirement that will force every team play at least one nonconference game against an opponent from a Power Five conference (ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC and Notre Dame).

BYU and Army will also be considered acceptable Power Five opponents, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy.

No existing game contracts will be impacted by this new requirement and there is no hard deadline, but this is clearly a move that has resulted from the decisions of the first two College Football Playoff Selection Committees.

"Schedule strength is a key component in CFP Selection Committee deliberations," commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. "This move will strengthen the resumes for all Big 12 teams. Coupled with the nine-game full round robin Conference schedule our teams play, it will not only benefit the teams at the top of our standings each season, but will impact the overall strength of the Conference."

B1GTide · Dec 8, 2015

Welcome Army, Vandy, UK, Indiana, etc. This will change nothing unless they play someone middle up in those conferences.

ETA - but lacking a championship game, it is a good start.

JustNeedMe81 · Dec 8, 2015

Good!

russtang · Dec 8, 2015

Great. Now add a CCG so the champion has to play 13 games like everybody else.

Harmost · Dec 8, 2015

(P5 bottom dwellers' phones and inboxes explode)

Loam · Dec 8, 2015

I also expect the Big 12 to add two more teams and go to two divisions and have a proper Conference Championship game in the future soon.

AlistarWills · Dec 8, 2015

Loam said:
I also expect the Big 12 to add two more teams and go to two divisions and have a proper Conference Championship game in the future soon.

Are there any more teams in Texas they can annex into the Texas Football League to get to a championship game?

crimsonaudio · Dec 8, 2015

There have been rumors of Memphis and one other team joining the B12, but I forget who the other team was, might be Cincinnati.

B1GTide · Dec 8, 2015

BTW, love Army, but how do they make that list? Seriously, their football team would get smoked by Vandy/Indiana almost every year.

RTR91 · Dec 8, 2015

B1GTide said:
BTW, love Army, but how do they make that list? Seriously, their football team would get smoked by Vandy/Indiana almost every year.

By playing Army or Navy, teams show they love America.

Better question - why is Navy on the list but not the other AAC schools? Or why are Army and Navy on the list but not Air Force?

rtcjny · Dec 8, 2015

B1GTide said:
BTW, love Army, but how do they make that list? Seriously, their football team would get smoked by Vandy/Indiana almost every year.

When I saw Army on the list I thought that all the teams would try and schedule them.

colbysullivan · Dec 8, 2015

Harmost said:
(P5 bottom dwellers' phones and inboxes explode)

"Yes, hello this is Jay Jacobs....yes, I received my Sports Illustrated football phone. Hang on I'm getting another call...Art, my good man, I've been waiting on your call!"

Snuffy Smith · Dec 8, 2015

AlistarWills said:
Are there any more teams in Texas they can annex into the Texas Football League to get to a championship game?

Houston, Rice, SMU - all former members of the defunct SWC

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UntouchableCrew · Dec 8, 2015

I was going to make a joke about every team in the Big XII calling Army but it looks like I was beat to it multiple times over.

Army being on the list is silly. They're a bottom 20 team in FBS.

I'd assume Memphis and Houston would be the two most likely schools to get added to the Big XII.

dvldog · Dec 8, 2015

AlistarWills said:
Are there any more teams in Texas they can annex into the Texas Football League to get to a championship game?

The Mean Green?

TNElephantitis · Dec 8, 2015

UntouchableCrew said:
I was going to make a joke about every team in the Big XII calling Army but it looks like I was beat to it multiple times over.

Army being on the list is silly. They're a bottom 20 team in FBS.

I'd assume Memphis and Houston would be the two most likely schools to get added to the Big XII.

These two make the most sense geographically. At least more sense than West Virginia. Plus Memphis gets you a foot in the door to SEC country. A lot of talent in the SEC has come out of Memphis and the Memphis-area.

bamamc1 · Dec 8, 2015

They are also going to require their conference members to play defense by 2017.

davefrat · Dec 8, 2015

A power 5 team or Notre Dame...booooooooo

Bama-94-00 · Dec 8, 2015

Snuffy Smith said:
Houston, Rice, SMU - all former members of the defunct SWC

The Southwest Conf. had all the major college teams in Texas, plus OU, Ok St and Arkansas as I recall (10 team total). The Big 12 later came out of the ashes...

Isaiah 63:1 · Dec 8, 2015

AlistarWills said:
Are there any more teams in Texas they can annex into the Texas Football League to get to a championship game?

SMU would crawl all the way to Big 12 headquarters for a chance to join the Big 12...

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