DMN: As Big 12 fights its way back into CFP, conference still paying for the sins of its past

[TopFrog]

DMN: As Big 12 fights its way back into CFP, conference still paying for the sins of its past

By Tim Cowlishaw, Staff Columnist
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Had Thomas Jefferson expanded his thoughts and gone on to say that all Power Five conferences are created equal, the Big 12 wouldn’t have all these worries. The league would miss out on the College Football Playoff on average once every five seasons.

We know that isn’t the case.

In two weeks (slightly less than that for Oklahoma State), the fourth season of the playoff era at the college football's highest level gets underway. The Big 12 already has whiffed on the playoffs twice in three tries. Most of those making predictions expect it to be three out of four when the season concludes.

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[TopFrog]

I predict the championship game ends up hurting us.

 

[Pure Purple]

Indeed, having football teams play each other twice in the same season can

prove to be an arduous task.

 

[Prince of Purpoole]

I predict the championship game ends up hurting us.

Of course it will. For the one time narrow circumstances converge to make it a positive there will be five or six at least when it hurts. It was a panic move

 

[Portland Frog]

I wonder how long it will take the conference to reverse course and do away with the CCG.

 

[Horned Toad]

Of course it will. For the one time narrow circumstances converge to make it a positive there will be five or six at least when it hurts. It was a panic move

If that scenario occurs then hopefully the Big 12 will pull its head out of its butt and expand to 12 to reduce the possibility of that happening regularly.

 

[Limp Lizard]

Of course it will. For the one time narrow circumstances converge to make it a positive there will be five or six at least when it hurts. It was a panic move

So you are saying that the regular season champ will lose 5 out of six times? Maybe 2 out of six.
But the championship game is just an excuse to keep the B12 out. I have already read where the loser of the Alabama-Fla State game has nothing to fear, but if OU loses to tOSU it is elimanated. Double standard. What is so very, very sad is the number of fans here who buy into it.

 

[ShepFrog]

Look the championship will do nothing but help. Who ever wins it, is the champion and that is it. It will either show dominance for a team who can go undefeated and beat a power 5 team twice, or it will show a good team with a loss that can fight back and improve enough to take down a team they lost too before. They love both, and it should help get the winner into the Playoff.

 

[Prince of Purpoole]

So you are saying that the regular season champ will lose 5 out of six times? Maybe 2 out of six.
But the championship game is just an excuse to keep the B12 out. I have already read where the loser of the Alabama-Fla State game has nothing to fear, but if OU loses to tOSU it is elimanated. Double standard. What is so very, very sad is the number of fans here who buy into it.

A first place team could win and look bad, a first place team could win and experience a devastating injury to a key player or players, a first place team could lose...there are any number of ways the game could hurt the first place team. The only real way the game helps the front runner is if they win and look good doung so. And inasmuch as the committee keeps changing the criteria I fail to see the benefit of chasing their ever-changing set of requirements

 

[BleedNPurple]

I'd feel better if Del Conte was on that committee!

 

[tcumaniac]

When that scenario occurs this season, then hopefully the Big 12 will pull its head out of its butt and expand to 12 to reduce the possibility of that happening regularly.

FIFY

 

[tcumaniac]

Look the championship will do nothing but help. Who ever wins it, is the champion and that is it. It will either show dominance for a team who can go undefeated and beat a power 5 team twice, or it will show a good team with a loss that can fight back and improve enough to take down a team they lost too before. They love both, and it should help get the winner into the Playoff.

Wrong.

What will actually happen is that a clear Big 12 Champion will run the table this year, and then that team that otherwise would have been a playoff team will lose in the Big 12 Championship game to a multiple loss team who they already beat earlier in the season. Then once again, no Big 12 team will make the playoff.

Big 12 had two practical options:
1. Expand to 12 teams and add a championship
2. Keep the round robin true champion and let the law of averages play itself out.

Instead they made an irrational, peer-pressured decision, which will more than likely cost us another playoff team.

 

[frog9999]

Without expansion, the Big 12 is a dead man walking. We need to be shmoozing other conferences for the next realignment. I hope we are already doing so.

 

[HToady]

To have a Conference Championship Game without divisions in a conference where everyone plays each other, is idiocy and doesn't help us at all. To solicit other teams then tell them never-mind is unprofessional.To have one team that has a national network while the conference doesn't,puts us in a category all by itself. To not punish or replace a team under Federal investigation is just spineless.

We need a Jerry Jones type to run the conference and challenge the NCAA rules, to build TV packages that surpass other conferences, and maybe we can entice schools like Arkansas, Nebraska and A&M, when we have as much on the table as the SEC.

Del Conte, could be that "Jerry Jones". We certainly have contributed to the conference on the field, and court. It's time for us to take the lead....