When does 2023 Conference Schedule come out?

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I was curious how the relative schedules ranked based on the 2022 final Sagarin rankings. I averaged the 2022 Sagarin ranking for each team on a school's schedule. This is how the schedules stacked up. (The average ranking for all of the current teams from 2022 was 36.7. The range of possibilities would have been 25.2 to 49.3)

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Houston
30.1​
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ISU
31.1​
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BYU
32.7​
4​
TCU
33.8​
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KU
34.3​
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Bay
34.4​
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TEX
34.7​
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KSU
36.1​
9​
UCF
37.4​
10​
TT
38.0​
11​
WV
38.7​
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OU
41.1​
13​
OSU
45.3​
14​
CIN
46.2​



It is interesting that OSU has the bottom 7 teams from the 2022 season. ISU and Houston play 6 of the top 7.
Comparing this to the Big 12 schedule is quite interesting.
1a A Big12 Schedule 2023 Crop2.jpg
I suppose they could have arranged the 'strength of schedule' of the teams, a little more evenly. But then again, they didn't have that advantage of having "CF fans crack staff" on the job.

All in all, one of the harder schedules, relatively yes, but a pretty typical ISU schedule regardless. Cincy, for example, could have had to play TX, and maybe we don't in trade. But who doesn't want another shot at Bevo in Ames?

Also making it seem a bit more difficult is KU's trend of improvement, and only the 4 Home Big 12 games this year.
 

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It is interesting that OSU has the bottom 7 teams from the 2022 season. ISU and Houston play 6 of the top 7.
OSU replacing OuT as top banana. I wonder if the southern teams drew straws?

I don't subsribe to conspiracy theories, though. Much.
 

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This makes me already miss the 10 team/round robin situation.
I absolutely loved the 10 team format, but it put us at a big disadvantage with every other league being able to have schools avoid good teams and get more wins than they would have if they had to play the good in conference schools every year.

Say in 2020 we didn’t have OSU on the schedule, do we go undefeated in Big12 play? Or if Covid never happened and the Ragin Cajuns weren’t on the schedule either?

Again 10 team league is perfect, but the other conferences need to be at that number too, but there’s no going back.
 

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I absolutely loved the 10 team format, but it put us at a big disadvantage with every other league being able to have schools avoid good teams and get more wins than they would have if they had to play the good in conference schools every year.

Say in 2020 we didn’t have OSU on the schedule, do we go undefeated in Big12 play? Or if Covid never happened and the Ragin Cajuns weren’t on the schedule either?

Again 10 team league is perfect, but the other conferences need to be at that number too, but there’s no going back.

Yeah that all makes sense but from a general year to year entertainment perspective the other conferences missed out.
 

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Yeah that all makes sense but from a general year to year entertainment perspective the other conferences missed out.
Yes and no. The B1G and SEC made out like bandits and are rich now. ACC locked in a long term bad deal, and the PAC is just in a bad time zone with less fan support as well. Then the Big12 just beat up on each other and didn’t get any respect because someone had to lose when two good teams played, which happened a lot on most of the schedules.
 

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Yes and no. The B1G and SEC made out like bandits and are rich now. ACC locked in a long term bad deal, and the PAC is just in a bad time zone with less fan support as well. Then the Big12 just beat up on each other and didn’t get any respect because someone had to lose when two good teams played, which happened a lot on most of the schedules.

I''m talking on my own personal perspective. Has nothing to do with contracts etc.

Seeing other conferences with teams only playing occasionally is more boring.
 

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The bridge has been named! The Monty Python Memorial Bridge of Death.
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Haha! Too funny.

There might be a decline in the east stadium seating next year! :D