This is on Bowlsby

CarlHungus

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Quit being stubborn and add two more teams to the conference and have a championship game.
 

Istate

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This Big 12 now has two options:

A) Add two teams ASAP

B) Disband

Let's hope A is done soon or B will be done sooner than later.
 

CyBroncos

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The Big 12 hitched its wagon to TCU thinking they were going to get in. Now we look completely stupid for not proclaiming Baylor conference champs because they beat TCU head to head. One true champion my a**, how dumb do we look?
 

Spam

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If the name was University of Texas and not TCU/Baylor, things would be very different today despite the Big 12's foolishness
 

LawyerClone

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We wouldn't even have a Big 12 conference right now if we didn't stay at 10. Texas and Oklahoma wanted 10, they didn't want to have the potential of getting tripped up in a conference championship game, they wanted the money divided 10 ways and it was all designed before a College Football Playoff. Iowa State and most of the rest of the conference were more than willing to do just that to keep the conference together.

Don't be stupid and blame this on Bowlsby.
 
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RubyClone

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If the name was University of Texas and not TCU/Baylor, things would be very different today despite the Big 12's foolishness

Or OU. It's not what Bowsby did.

It's that TCU and Baylor aren't called Ohio State.
 

Cyforce

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This really doesn't effect the Big XII at all because Texas wasn't involved.

That being said we all know in the end they found to what they wanted to. The committee chair saying it was about what OSU did and not about what TCU didn't proves it's bogus because FSU did nothing to warrant passing TCU.
 

DuckDynastyCy

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This all might be the best thing in the long run for ISU...we just need to make sure the two teams added are North of the Mason Dixon line and not in Texas.
 

Stormin

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Quit being stubborn and add two more teams to the conference and have a championship game.

A Championship game would have made no difference. Ohio State beat an overrated Wisconsin team whose best win was over Nebraska.
 

norcalcy

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All season long people said this was going to be such a great system. It's a bigger cluster than the BCS. The idea that some committee was going to cloister itself and come up with the right answer has been exposed as a fraud.
 

Cyched

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All season long people said this was going to be such a great system. It's a bigger cluster than the BCS. The idea that some committee was going to cloister itself and come up with the right answer has been exposed as a fraud.

They managed to create a system that allows more human bias than the BCS ever did. Progress, I suppose.