[SamAtoms1980]

It's so preposterous for the Big 12 to have a championship game pitting #1 vs. #2.  They have a whole freaking regular season, where all teams play each other in a round robin, to decide who is #1. Despite this, they are going to try to claim #1 isn't the champion until they have another game?  This is absurd.  No reason to play another game to decide the champion.

I've got to agree here.  This is going to screw them over yet again, somehow, if not this year then some time down the road.  I don't know what the Big XII was thinking, or why the NCAA granted them a waiver, to have a championship game without conference divisions and with a complete round robin.

It looks like the Big XII overreacted to the situation in 2014, and I also think the committee dissembled when they left out both Big XII co-champions on the grounds that the conference wasn't crowning a true champion.  That's why they SAID they left the Big XII out of the playoffs, but I think the real reason the Big XII teams got left out is that their OOC schedules were a pile of $#%&.  Of course the championship game gives the Big XII champion another quality win, which notably vaulted eventual champion Ohio State into the 2014 playoffs.

[SamAtoms1980]

It's so preposterous for the Big 12 to have a championship game pitting #1 vs. #2.  They have a whole freaking regular season, where all teams play each other in a round robin, to decide who is #1. Despite this, they are going to try to claim #1 isn't the champion until they have another game?  This is absurd.  No reason to play another game to decide the champion.

I've got to agree here.  This is going to screw them over yet again, somehow, if not this year then some time down the road.  I don't know what the Big XII was thinking, or why the NCAA granted them a waiver, to have a championship game without conference divisions and with a complete round robin.

It looks like the Big XII overreacted to the situation in 2014, and I also think the committee dissembled when they left out both Big XII co-champions on the grounds that the conference wasn't crowning a true champion.  That's why they SAID they left the Big XII out of the playoffs, but I think the real reason the Big XII teams got left out is that their OOC schedules were a pile of $#%&.  Of course the championship game gives the Big XII champion another quality win, which notably vaulted eventual champion Ohio State into the 2014 playoffs.

[teejers1]

Wait . . . -48 rep . . . what?!?  :P :P

To be perfectly honest, I rarely give it a thought, and when I do, I chuckle a bit envisioning my fellow Cardboardians being "driven" to click a down arrow, or whatever it is.  To each his/her own.

And Outsider Fan - I never viewed you as anything other than part of the Stanford family.  Your fandom is greatly appreciated.  I'd give you an "up arrow" (or whatever the thingymajiggy is), but well . . .  you know . . .

[teejers1]

Wait . . . -48 rep . . . what?!?  :P :P

To be perfectly honest, I rarely give it a thought, and when I do, I chuckle a bit envisioning my fellow Cardboardians being "driven" to click a down arrow, or whatever it is.  To each his/her own.

And Outsider Fan - I never viewed you as anything other than part of the Stanford family.  Your fandom is greatly appreciated.  I'd give you an "up arrow" (or whatever the thingymajiggy is), but well . . .  you know . . .