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Yeah they just won't take a couple smaller Texas schools just for the sake of doing it. They'll add teams with some value, and of course, the University of Texas must approve.

Cincinnati, BYU, UCF, Boise, Colorado State are a few that make sense

I heard Boise's chances are greatly diminished because their academic standards are not nearly high enough for the Big 12 to accept them. Otherwise, they would be the #1 and obvious choice.

there is an old saying with idaho.... You go to Moscow to party, Pocatello to study and boise to watch football. U of I could be a big 12 possibily but i doubt it.

Yeah, I don't see Texas or Oklahoma being thrilled with the prospects of going to Boise, Idaho for conference games. They are a proven team, but facilities and academics don't match up too well.

Duquesne has about as good of a chance of going to the Big 12 as Idaho does by the way.


The fact of the matter is, Texas would have made the playoffs if they had TCU's resume, so this kind of thing wouldn't have happened to them. Still, the league needs 12 so they can have a championship game for the resume, and to help out the TCU's and Baylor's, so they don't get screwed over again. They have to be two very solid programs that give the league something. If they can't find that, and add two nobody's just for the sake of doing it, Texas will be joining any of the other four leagues, and they'll be bringing Oklahoma with them.

konjo78 wrote:isn't really big 12's choice. NCAA has a rule that you need to have atleast 12 teams in a conference to have a championship game. They can't change the NCAA rule by themselves

No but they were aware of this when they decided to roll with 10 teams. So it's on them.

Two things easily fix the problems that were caused this weekend with this.

1. Don't reveal teams prior to the final day. They don't mean anything anyway and then they open you up to problems. Why did TCU drop after a 50 point win? Well, had we not known they were 3rd a week before, nobody would care.

2. Make this whole thing 6 teams! The conference championships would make this easy.

Seed the champion from the power 5 and then add one wild card team to the mix. Play the wild card games this week and allow the losers to meet in a bowl two weeks later.

1. Bama
2. Oregon
3. Florida State
4. Ohio State
5. Baylor
6. TCU

This Saturday would be wild card weekend. Have the committee seed the teams and play wild card games at the higher seed.

TCU @ Florida State
Baylor @ Ohio State

losers meet in a bowl game (add one to the mix... that gets teams sent to it)

I agree they shouldn't reveal the rankings. And if they ever do that in basketball, they'll ruin the tournament.

But seeing as how that Tuesday night hour show probably had great ratings and it got people talking college football more than ever before, it's not going away.

Crimson's Ghost wrote:They're pretty harmless rankings, it's just to draw up discussions, tv time, internet clicks ect. Everything always works itself out in the end, any ranking in any sport isn't worth anything until the end of the year. If the rankings came out on Sunday night or Monday morning without fanfare it wouldn't feel like the BCS, but it's because of the primetime television special each week, it will make it feel like the BCS. But ESPN makes money, the NCAA makes money. It is what it is, but for the rankings themselves, they are no different than an AP or Coaches weekly poll.

Happy to see you changed your opinion. I was openly critical from weekly rankings from start. It just doesn't matter or make sense unless its just a money grab

Didn't really change my opinion. As I said back then, the rankings show were for TV ratings and to draw up discussion, and it did a good job of that. I think people paid a lot closer attention to the rankings and college football than in previous years.

Like I said whenever that was, the rankings that came out yesterday were the only ones that mattered.

"Any ranking in any sport isn't worth anything until the end of the year"

Yesterday was a great example of that.

IDEA TO GET IT RIGHT:
Step 1: Everyone in D1 A MUST get in a conference. If you're an independent you are not able to compete for a national championship
Step 2: That will give you 10 conferences. (American Athletic, ACC, Big 10, Conference USA, Mid American, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt)
Step 3: Each conference winner is in playoffs, and ranked like they do for basketball. The winner of the Sun Belt would likely be the 10 seed every year, playing the winner of the SEC.

PROBLEM SOLVED.