BYU considering BE

[kingottoiii]

BYU

If they are willing to join the BE then how did they not end up in the B12? Or is this just a ploy to get the B12 to cave into BYU's demands? I think it would make more sense for the B12 to take BYU and UL now. It kills BE FB and gets the B12 CG back.

 

[SmilinBob]

The big east will bend over backwards for them especially if boise st turns them down. How fun will it be to be in the big east with ND saying no, I really don't think I want to that and then BYU says well we can't do it that way because of...

 

[longtimefan]

BYU

If they are willing to join the BE then how did they not end up in the B12? Or is this just a ploy to get the B12 to cave into BYU's demands? I think it would make more sense for the B12 to take BYU and UL now. It kills BE FB and gets the B12 CG back.

Texas, and maybe Oklahoma, are opposed to a conference championship game, because the game makes it more difficult to get to the BCS championship game.

 

[MaxwellCuse]

Apples and oranges I think. The Big East offer to BYU is for football only. Not only does this avoid greatly increased travel costs for non-revenue sports, but it avoids Sunday scheduling conflicts. The Big 12 does not want to become a hybrid conference, so their discussions with BYU centered on an all-sports membership where the possibility of playing on Sunday, anethema to the Mormom leadership, gummed up negotiations.

 

[kingottoiii]

Texas, and maybe Oklahoma, are opposed to a conference championship game, because the game makes it more difficult to get to the BCS championship game.

Both have made the NCG with a B12 CG before. Plus all the other BCS confs have CGs now.

 

[BlazeOrange]

Texas, and maybe Oklahoma, are opposed to a conference championship game, because the game makes it more difficult to get to the BCS championship game.

I can see their problem with it, since I'm sure that they feel the winner of their game against each other deserves the BCS bid for the conference. And they're usually right. The problem was that they would then have to play another game against a northern division team that could be a late stumbling block.

The obvious solution is to put UT and OU into separate divisions, which would often make the championship game a rematch of the Red River Rivalry game.

 

[longtimefan]

Both have made the NCG with a B12 CG before. Plus all the other BCS confs have CGs now.

Think back just a couple of years, when UT needed a questionable referee's decision to avoid getting knocked out of the championship by Nebraska. There have been a number of upsets in conference championship games (more in the Big 12 than the SEC, I think).