Regardless of what happens, I’m pretty hyped that our schedule will no longer be playing the exact same teams every year.
Big 12 (16) Football Schedule
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KidSilverhair
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Anything where ISU and KSU don’t play yearly is a non-starter. It’s about to be the 4th longest consecutive series in CFB with Wake/NC State ending. It’s survived 2 pandemics for Christ sake
Forget pods and divisions. Every team gets 3 protected rivals. You play them annually. You play everyone else once per 2 years. The “everyone else” pool is 12 teams and you have 6 games, so the math is easy and clean.
Iowa State’s 3 rivals would include KU and K-State. Not sure where the math would fall for its third protected team.
Top two records at the end of the season meet in the CCG.
Iowa State’s 3 rivals would include KU and K-State. Not sure where the math would fall for its third protected team.
Top two records at the end of the season meet in the CCG.
Will be interesting to see if we stick with nine conference games, or go to ten. We were the first to play 9 which was perfect for a ten team conference, but also to get a little better of a media deal. Probably stay at nine though.
And how will this work if it’s 18? The only way I see feasible at first glance is to have one rivalry game you play every year, and everyone else you play every other year. (3 non conf, 1 rivalry, play 8/16 remaining in conference)
I don’t hate the idea. But it’d be a shame to have such different schedules every year.
If you have 3 protected rivals, that's a 4 team pod by another name.
But I agree with your concept, it works best to balance tradition/rivalry with keeping the conference bonded.
Here's a math question though - if you have 14 or 18 teams, can you still work it out so everyone has 3 protected rivals? Or do you get odd leftovers? Too lazy to spreadsheet it out.
Plus everyone will want to have Kansas as their protected game.If you have 3 protected rivals, that's a 4 team pod by another name.
But I agree with your concept, it works best to balance tradition/rivalry with keeping the conference bonded.
Here's a math question though - if you have 14 or 18 teams, can you still work it out so everyone has 3 protected rivals? Or do you get odd leftovers? Too lazy to spreadsheet it out.
Not necessarily. For example, our protected rivals could be KU, KSU and Cincinnati, but KSU could be KU, ISU and CU. It doesn’t have to be the same 4 schools.If you have 3 protected rivals, that's a 4 team pod by another name.
But I agree with your concept, it works best to balance tradition/rivalry with keeping the conference bonded.
Here's a math question though - if you have 14 or 18 teams, can you still work it out so everyone has 3 protected rivals? Or do you get odd leftovers? Too lazy to spreadsheet it out.
It would be fun to watch them try to decide. Every school ad has 3 tickets and they have to pair up before they can go home.
How do you get a championship game from 3 or 4 pods? Exact opposite of what we have today of a true champion.
