Our bye weeks for next year's schedule is atrocios

[bEER_Nation13]

1st bye after the 2nd game because that's a WVU signature, never seen any other team who schedules more bye weeks after 2 games than WVU.

2nd bye is only a few weeks later after the 4th game.

WVU has its 2 byes before the 5th game. That's just terrible especially with the strength of schedule next year with the OOC being beefed up with Missouri, BYU and even Youngstown State is pretty tough respectable FCS opponent.

 

[HurdyGurdyEer]

It's not ideal but then we do not have any back-to-back road games in the B12 and we don't have the murderers row we had this year.

There was a point in time, not all that long ago, that a bye week was not a regular feature of a team's schedule. Granted, that was the era of 10, then 11, game regular seasons. But it was not unusual for a team to play 10-11 weeks in a row.

 

[wvurelic]

1st bye after the 2nd game because that's a WVU signature, never seen any other team who schedules more bye weeks after 2 games than WVU.

2nd bye is only a few weeks later after the 4th game.

WVU has its 2 byes before the 5th game. That's just terrible especially with the strength of schedule next year with the OOC being beefed up with Missouri, BYU and even Youngstown State is pretty tough respectable FCS opponent.

It's always funny when people say we had a tough stretch or murder row wether you lose to the same 4 teams all in a row or one every other week is still 4 losses it just doesn't look as bad on paper

 

[Woody in Helvetia]

Scheduling was very difficult NEXT season because the Big 12 made sure that we could add a conference championship game it we wanted to. Thus all the games of Dec. 3 had to have matching bye weeks. Our Baylor game could move to the second bye week. There are 3 games on Dec 3 so each pair of those teams had to have corresponding bye weeks. And most of the other teams have 6 to 8 weeks without byes also.

 

[Samuel S]

Huh? I don't follow that at all. The Big 12 schedule was prepared because of the non-existent championship game but it wasn't prepared to suddenly decide to have one but to give the expected best teams the chance to close with good wins late since we don't have a championship game.

The league set the schedule so that the teams it expected to be good all played each other toward the end of the season. Doing that necessarily required that the teams it did not expect to be good also mostly played each other toward the end of the season.

Thus, the teams expected to be good had to play teams not expected to be good mostly early.

Kansas had Baylor, OSU and OU between October 10-31.
KSU had all 4 of the top teams between 10/3 and 11/5.
TTU had all 4 between 9/26 and 10/31
ISU had all 4 between 10/17 and 11/14.
Texas played OU, TCU and OSU between consecutively between 9/26 and 10/10.

I'd say the league did a really job at that. So far, Texas is the only team among the bottom 6 to have won a even a single game against the top 4. I think that had more to do with the disparity between the top and the bottom than when the teams played.

 

[Woody in Helvetia]

Huh? I don't follow that at all. The Big 12 schedule was prepared because of the non-existent championship game but it wasn't prepared to suddenly decide to have one but to give the expected best teams the chance to close with good wins late since we don't have a championship game.

The league set the schedule so that the teams it expected to be good all played each other toward the end of the season. Doing that necessarily required that the teams it did not expect to be good also mostly played each other toward the end of the season.

Thus, the teams expected to be good had to play teams not expected to be good mostly early.

Kansas had Baylor, OSU and OU between October 10-31.
KSU had all 4 of the top teams between 10/3 and 11/5.
TTU had all 4 between 9/26 and 10/31
ISU had all 4 between 10/17 and 11/14.
Texas played OU, TCU and OSU between consecutively between 9/26 and 10/10.

I'd say the league did a really job at that. So far, Texas is the only team among the bottom 6 to have won a even a single game against the top 4. I think that had more to do with the disparity between the top and the bottom than when the teams played.

I corrected the wording that confused you - I am talking about the 2016 schedule.

 

[Samuel S]

OH.