The Big 12 expansion groundswell

[LiveCoug]

5.5", lightweight

you don't need no stinkin' tapatalk.

[TripletDaddy]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/tension...352-ncaaf.html

OK, Baylor can be the "one true champion" but they are still not going to the playoffs.

so growing up in Texas taught briles to not take any crap from anyone? lol.

[TripletDaddy]

TCU, Baylor: blame the b12

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo...oise-state-byu

[Uncle Ted]

Bowlsby on "True Conference Champion": "I went back and looked ... and just plain misspoke." LOL.

Big 12 commish: Consider new model

The Big 12 commissioner says the conference will reconsider how to declare its champion after being left out of the four-team college football playoff.


In a phone interview on the College Football Playoff Selection Show, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told ESPN's Rece Davis: "It's clear that we were penalized for not having a postseason championship game. It would have been nice to have been told that ahead of time."


"We have to weigh whether this is substantial enough to add institutions. ... It's certainly a major consideration."

The Big 12 would need to add two teams or have the NCAA approve a waiver to have a conference championship game. The Big 12 has 10 teams, and a conference must have 12 teams to have a conference championship game.


The words of Football Playoff Committee chairman Jeff Long "will cause us to go back to the drawing board a little bit and think about if we need a different model," Bowlsby said, referring to tie-breakers and title-game discussions.


The Big 12 is the only conference in the Power Five without a championship game, but plays a round-robin schedule. Baylor and TCU were co-champions, even with the Bears' head-to-head win over the Horned Frogs.


After Saturday's 38-27 win over Kansas State, Baylor coach Art Briles declared his team to the crowd as the only Big 12 champion. The night ended with Bowlsby and Briles engaged in an animated conversation on the podium about the Big 12 presenting co-champions to the committee.

"If you're going to slogan around and say One True Champion, and all of a sudden you're going to go out the back door instead of the front?" Briles said. "Don't say one thing and do another. That's my whole deal. If they had said from the get-go we've got co-champs, head to head doesn't matter, I'm OK with it. I'm not obligated to him. I'm obligated to Baylor University and our football team. We just happen to be part of the Big 12 and we happen to be the champion two years in a row, so they need to be obligated to us because we're helping the Big 12's image in the nation."

Responded Bowlsby via text message about his interaction with Briles on the podium: "Our rule says they are co-champions. He doesn't want to accept that I cannot change the rule to suit his wishes."


On Big 12 media day in July, Bowlsby said if there was a tie for conference champion, they would go to tiebreakers, meaning head to head. On Sunday, Bowlsby told ESPN: "I went back and looked ... and just plain misspoke."

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...clare-champion

[TripletDaddy]

Vote on 10-team CCG exemption to occur in April?

http://www.kctv5.com/story/27568490/...-clear-message

[TripletDaddy]

Time to embrace the future of college football, b12


https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...190748069.html

[TripletDaddy]

GoMo: good news for byu!

http://www.sltrib.com/sports/1919204...-news-for-byu-

[Uncle Ted]

Vote on 10-team CCG exemption to occur in April?

http://www.kctv5.com/story/27568490/...-clear-message

In April there will be a vote to allow 10-team leagues like the Big XII to play a championship game. If it fails, expect league expansion. BYU, Memphis and Cincinnati are possible targets.

Just how many FBS Division I-A conferences have 10 teams besides the Big 12? Well, if you don't count the Idaho Vandals I guess you can say the Sun Belt conference only has 10 teams as well.

[LiveCoug]

LOL... I love Ute fans, they are such large babies (from GoMo's article)

"CrimsonRules
I'm not sure I'd ever want BYU in a Power 5 Conference. I mean, we have to endure their annoying fans now who, whether their team wins or loses, always insist their team was the better team. We, as Utah fans, have had to endure this forever. BYU fans are always claiming they are the best team even when they get beat. Can you imagine having to deal with them if they played in a big conference and actually beat a good team? We'd never hear the end of it.

I think we're better off with them being an insignificant non-power team."

[UVACoug]

Colorado State is showing some commitment to its football program. They just approved a new $200+ Million stadium:

http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news...dium/19973349/

Wouldn't mind CSU as a BigXII expansion partner.

[Uncle Ted]

Money well spent... LOL.

Embedded Tweet

[TripletDaddy]

I like the logo, actually. The restyled XII looks cool.

[UVACoug]

Bowlsby says CCG with only ten teams might be unfair:

https://mobile.twitter.com/schadjoe/...75986111447040

There's an easy solution to that problem.

[Uncle Ted]

vteuz0q5aflaedee5wfr.jpg

[All-American]

Colorado State is showing some commitment to its football program. They just approved a new $200+ Million stadium:

http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news...dium/19973349/

Wouldn't mind CSU as a BigXII expansion partner.

$200 million for a 36,000 seat stadium? Did I read that wrong?