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<blockquote data-quote="skygusty_rivals" data-source="post: 129470058" data-attributes="member: 1500287"><p>There are no guarantees in any scenario of making the 4 team playoff.&nbsp; Our flagship teams need to start scheduling tougher out of conference and having undefeated seasons or 1 loss seasons against quality competition.&nbsp; It doesn't matter that other conferences have weak teams as long as they have 2 or 3 schools that are perennial contenders.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't have the BIG12 team rosters in front of me but I am betting they already have a national recruiting base.&nbsp; I can't imagine our own fanbase would be terribly excited about adding Cincy, UCONN, Memphis or UCF.&nbsp; I can't imagine the rest of the conference being very enthusiastic either.&nbsp; Lots of games added that nobody is very interested in.&nbsp; I guess there must be some metric out there that says that population based viewership is important to a network package, but it won't be exciting to football fans anywhere.&nbsp; Money will win, that's the only guarantee I see.&nbsp; We will find out soon enough what the BIG12 is going to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="skygusty_rivals, post: 129470058, member: 1500287"] There are no guarantees in any scenario of making the 4 team playoff. Our flagship teams need to start scheduling tougher out of conference and having undefeated seasons or 1 loss seasons against quality competition. It doesn't matter that other conferences have weak teams as long as they have 2 or 3 schools that are perennial contenders. I don't have the BIG12 team rosters in front of me but I am betting they already have a national recruiting base. I can't imagine our own fanbase would be terribly excited about adding Cincy, UCONN, Memphis or UCF. I can't imagine the rest of the conference being very enthusiastic either. Lots of games added that nobody is very interested in. I guess there must be some metric out there that says that population based viewership is important to a network package, but it won't be exciting to football fans anywhere. Money will win, that's the only guarantee I see. We will find out soon enough what the BIG12 is going to do. [/QUOTE]

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