Kansas, ISU and the unbalanced schedule

Looking at this year's schedule, it looks like the rotation for each North team vs. the South teams is as follows...

Iowa State

Oklahoma
Texas
Texas Tech

Oklahoma State
Texas A&M
Baylor


Colorado

Oklahoma
Baylor
Texas Tech

Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma State


Kansas

Texas A&M
Oklahoma State
Baylor

Oklahoma
Texas
Texas Tech


Kansas State

Texas
Oklahoma State
Baylor

Oklahoma
Texas Tech
Texas A&M


Missouri

Oklahoma
Texas Tech
Texas A&M

Texas
Oklahoma State
Baylor


Nebraska

Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma State

Oklahoma
Texas Tech
Baylor

The good thing about playing Texas and Oklahoma the same year:

Good TV exposure
Good competition
More opportunity to crack the top 25 ranking

The bad thing about playing them both the same year:

Well, you all know why it's bad, they are just tough.

Why not playing Texas or Oklahoma will hurt Kansas:

Say Kansas loses to Missouri, they will not play in the championship game, other one loss team(s) will be favored against them.

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Originally Posted by Iastfan112

The point of having NC games is to judge the strength of a conference in my opinion. Yes there are bowls as well but thats only 1 game having the NC games allows a wider scope for judgement as well exposing the league to the whole nation(people from Texas and Oklahoma may care about the game but expecting a Miami fan to isnt logical)

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I would love to see more premier interconference match-ups in the NC schedule, like Texas-Ohio State 2 years ago. I understand that most big schools don't want to do that because of the risk it poses to national title hopes, but I loved it that there were at least two big schools who weren't afraid of losing and wanted to prove that they could compete and win against the best.

I will look forward to the day when ISU doesn't have to play the Kent States and South Dakota States of the world and instead we can schedule home-and-homes with teams from the ACC, SEC, Pac-10, etc. And we can play more Big Ten teams than just Iowa... there are nearby natural rivalries with schools like Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan State, etc.

I want to see ISU play an SEC team instead of Iowa year in and year out.

I would like to see a NC that looks something like this: Iowa, UNI/MAC team, Big East/ACC team, and a Big 10 team. In other words, play some better matchups, but don't kill us either. We should be playing Wisconsin or Illinois or Minnesota regularly. The regional matchups seem too obvious.

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Originally Posted by LindenCy

I would like to see a NC that looks something like this: Iowa, UNI/MAC team, Big East/ACC team, and a Big 10 team. In other words, play some better matchups, but don't kill us either. We should be playing Wisconsin or Illinois or Minnesota regularly. The regional matchups seem too obvious.

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Agreed there's no reason we shouldn't be playing regional teams on a more consistant basis. Its hard to get worked up for a game against Toledo, a game against Minnesota would be fun and my friends from up north and I could bet on it.

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Originally Posted by Rogue52

Why don't the Big 12 teams take some initiative and dump all our non-conference games and have every Big 12 team play every other Big 12 team?

That would be fun and leave the Hawkeyes having to schedule another mid-major team for their nonconference schedule.

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What you been smoking?:twitcy:

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Originally Posted by cycloneworld

Why is it we play OU and Texas in the same 2 year rotation? Does the Big 12 conference set up that schedule/rotation?

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That is the way it all started when the big12 started and it just rotates every 4 years. And once it is set, you really cannot change it or people will be complaining we had to play UT 3 years in a row or whatever.

Like Dan says... if you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

I agree that our NC games could be tougher but I wouldnt crank up the difficulty too much. When having to face teams like Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri and now Kansas on a yearly basis it makes for a pretty strong SOS as is. When you load up on strong teams I feel it wears down the team and makes it likely that you'll be just a little off and get beat. Ex. LSU which I feel is the best team in the nation just has a hideous schedule and very well could end up paying for that.

You cannot make your non conf schedule so hard that you do not get 2-3 wins out of it. There is too much money you are losing out on if you do not make a bowl.

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Originally Posted by brianhos

You cannot make your non conf schedule so hard that you do not get 2-3 wins out of it. There is too much money you are losing out on if you do not make a bowl.

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Right.

Plus, if we can't beat the likes of Kent State, UNI and Toledo, what business do we have scheduling teams from the ACC, Big East, etc? Not to mention the tough time we'd have in scheduling a home-home series with these teams.

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Originally Posted by brianhos

if you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.

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Wooooooooooooooo

My dream is 3-4 years from now, Oklahoma and Texas are worrying about Iowa State being on thier schedule!

When, not if, we get good enough to be competitive and we have a magical year like Kansas is having, I hope it is against the good south schedule so there are no doubts about whether we get to the BCS title game.

A guy can dream can't he....

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Originally Posted by Stormin

...How about making them play in the cold once in a while?

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that will never happen.

tu and Ou are the favorite children of the B12. We are the cardinal-headed stepchild.