They can only go off of historical results when they schedule these. Last year the teams that were excluded from this year's challenge went 9-9, 9-9, 7-11, and 1-17 so yes, they didn't exclude a single upper division team or a team with an over .500 conference record. It is pure chance that one of those teams managed to turn it around and be a top team in their league this year but the point remains that it is scheduled with mostly bottom half teams from the previous year being excluded - advantage SEC. Even with A&M turning it around the other three teams are all in the bottom half thus far this year - advantage SEC.Their #3, #8, #9 and #11 teams are not playing. Out of 14 teams. That seems pretty 'fair' and not skewed.
I'm simply making point Big12 has struggled in these matchups. Hell we've gone 5-5 against the Big East the last 2 years.
Is it an accident that teams like Kentucky and Florida have been scheduled to play in this every year while some teams have been excluded 5 out of 9 times like Georgia, Mississippi State, and South Carolina? It will be 6 exclusions out of 10 for Georgia after this year.
Conference records during run of challenge:
Most excluded teams [exclusions]:
Georgia [5] 64-98 (.395)
Miss St [5] 68-94 (.420)
South Carolina [5] 75-85 (.469)
Missouri [4] 52-109 (.325)
Least excluded teams [exclusions]:
Kentucky [0] 121-40 (.752)
Florida [0] 98-62 (.613)
Arkansas [1] 95-66 (.590)
Tennessee [1] 93-68 (.578)
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