My Thoughts on the Playoff Field

Doogles said:

I never have been a fan of conference championship games, i liked the old pac-10 round robin and don't think the big-12 necessarily needs a championship game to make the playoff.

apparently they do. and, based on what their commissioner said to Herbstreit in an interview yesterday, they'll likely have one in the very near future (as in next season).

cook it.

The Big 12 fucked themselves in this deal IMHO. It is obvious they thought there was a good chance things could go there way and possibly get two in the playoff, so they massaged it and named co-champions. And got no one.

Co champions? By every metric they could have used, Baylor was the champion of the Big 12. Personally I think TCU was probably the better team, but the there was a two way tie at the top of a true round robin. HTH decides that. Name your champion and give them a little more meat on their bone with the committee. Dont compromise them and give the committee an easy out. And after OSU looked like they did Saturday night, they took it.

BayDawg said:

The Big 12 fucked themselves in this deal IMHO. It is obvious they thought there was a good chance things could go there way and possibly get two in the playoff, so they massaged it and named co-champions. And got no one.

Co champions? By every metric they could have used, Baylor was the champion of the Big 12. Personally I think TCU was probably the better team, but the there was a two way tie at the top of a true round robin. HTH decides that. Name your champion and give them a little more meat on their bone with the committee. Dont compromise them and give the committee an easy out. And after OSU looked like they did Saturday night, they took it.

Yep. Baylor should be absolutely pissed at the Big 12.

Tequilla said:

BayDawg said:

The Big 12 fucked themselves in this deal IMHO. It is obvious they thought there was a good chance things could go there way and possibly get two in the playoff, so they massaged it and named co-champions. And got no one.

Co champions? By every metric they could have used, Baylor was the champion of the Big 12. Personally I think TCU was probably the better team, but the there was a two way tie at the top of a true round robin. HTH decides that. Name your champion and give them a little more meat on their bone with the committee. Dont compromise them and give the committee an easy out. And after OSU looked like they did Saturday night, they took it.

Particularly true when your co-champions aren't historical bluebloods.

I don't think the Big 12 will expand - there's nobody out there that they can add that will satisfy Texas (and that's a huge issue).

It will be interesting to see how the Big 12 operates going forward. Do they ask for the Conference Title Game? If so, do they do it based on geography or just have the Top 2 teams play an extra game? If that is the way it goes, take a situation like this year and you'll have Baylor plenty pissed off about a H2H win. But at the same time if you break it up into 5 team divisions that pretty much waters everything down and could result in a situation where you have 2 of your strong teams in the same division.

The BXII should simply instead try not going full retard next year.

Big12 recovery plan for 2015:

1) take your double slight like men. Patterson has been great, Briles and the commish are whining like bitches.
2) tell the Baylor AD to adopt non-vaginal scheduling practices. Plenty of p5 intersectionals get scheduled in a hurry if the parties involved want to buy off some cupcakes to do it.
3) have a fucking tie breaker in place and stick to it hell or high water.
4) promote the one true champion you have allegedly produced and ignore the runner up unless you've been touted all season as the new SEC west or some shit.

The BXII didn't need an extra game. They needed to smear five gallons of lipstick on Baylor's ugly mug and back that pig at the dance. They gambled on two ugly girls making it big and lost bigger. I guess Texans' belt buckles really are tombstones for their dicks when they go on like whiny bitches when their grifting got exposed.

Baylor was never going to make the playoff if it could be helped because their case sucks due to SMU, nw State and buffalo.

The narrative we hear too much is the BXII "was screwed." The one that needs more exposure is how the BXII tried to fuck up the inaugural CFP before it had a chance to succeed by pimping two unworthy teams from a "one champion" league.