Remember, Pods isn’t just about schedule balance as far as competition, it’s about schedule balance as far as travel. There’s one pod that is going Cincinnati to OK State to Central Florida to West Virginia, which is literally half the nation, and one pod where all teams reside in same state.
That’s a problem
I agree, Lubbock is now officially New Mexico. All oppose?
Well see biggest problem is there isn’t enough Texas teams to go around. So someone is either going to have to choose their rivalries or playing in Texas. I’ve tried many different combinations and it just doesn’t work. If UH wasn’t in the conference it actually might not be such a problem but only getting to play one Texas team every other year at home for UH would not fly. Or I should say if we were ok with that it would work. And then throw in the fact that two teams desire the same Texas school (Tech) and it gets even more complicated. Trust me I’m using chat GTP at this point and even it’s having trouble making it work. And trust me when I say splitting up the Texas schools actually makes it worse for everyone schedule wise.
And you can’t do 3 team pods unless you add 2 more schools. It has to be 4 teams per pod.
And you could switch Colorado but how do you have them play you guys the Utah Kansas Two Texas schools and allow for UH to play two Texas schools in the same year? Because we run into the situation were UH obviously can’t play itself. And if UH is going to have a Texas rival it has to be Tech. The problem is if we do that we run into overlap. And then when you have two Texas teams play themselves that’s two Texas teams that aren’t available on the schedule for a week.
As a reminder, this was my 16.
Balance feels better, Not gonna lie.
Doesn’t work Tech and Houston have to be rivals. They are our biggest Texas rival.
Yeah, I forgot to swap Baylor and Houston
I fixed it. Baylor/TCU same pod, Houston/Tech/Arizona same pod
Now we run into the how do ensure Houston also gets a Texas team at home every year.
How is that an actual concern? That’s a want.
I want to be podded with Houston, Kansas, Tech.
LMAO
At least in mine that’s a “problem” for all Texas teams.
I’ll stick with my belief that permanent rivals are for college football and pods are for space aliens.
The other Texas teams probably wouldn’t care as much. But for Houston fans only getting to play a Texas team at home every 2 years would be a big blow. We hate our fellow Texas teams that much for getting a head start over us.
Conferences got away from divisions to increase their CFP chances.
With the P5 becoming P4 (for now) and talk about changing the AQ rules for the CFP, could we see the top 2 teams from each conference (i.e. division-winners) get an AQ with 4 at-large?
The P4 conference championship games would essentially be for seeding and first round byes.
Could still have 2 pods per division, with the winner getting the division AQ, and what a game that would be at the end of the year.
If true, the CFP could be the trigger again, but this time for conferences to return to 2 divisions each (with or without pods).
That’s cool and all, but that’s not a realistic concern for creating pods. That’s like me saying Arizona fans don’t want to ever play any of the Pac12 refugees because we are tired of them.
This all needs to be a small concession.
Arizona continues to play ASU, and Houston gets to keep Rivalry with Tech, but they all have upside as Rivals, both Geographic and Historical.
Anyways, I too want a pod with nothing but Texas! Haha
Ya the thing is though the whole reason UH fans we’re excited for the Big 12 was getting to play big Texas schools. If we only play one every other year essentially it takes away too much of the luster for us and I don’t think our admin would go for it.
You would play Tech every year, and you could easily add a 2nd by playing either Baylor or TCU every year, rotating Home/Home every season.
Remember, my 16-team/4-pod is play your pod (3 games) and play 2 from other 3 pods (6 games). Every 2 years you’ve played everyone, every 4 years you’ve played everyone 2x home/home.
That means in my system you’re playing Tech every year and TCU or Baylor every year.
From article I was reading…
Big 12 West
Baylor
TCU
Texas Tech
Colorado
Utah
BYU
Arizona
Arizona State
Big 12 East
Cincinnati
UCF
West Virginia
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma State
Houston
ASU, U. of A, Utah, and BYU all used to be together in The WAC.
That is why they go together.
UH, Baylor, TCU, and Tech all were together in The SWC.
Colorado was in The Big 8. Put them with old friends Kansas, Okie St., and KSU.
Last is Iowa St. Cincy, WVU, and UCF. Why? Cause they are all that is left.
I tried that but it didn’t work because your pods completely cut off Colorado from their two biggest rivals Kansas st. and Utah
Iowa State also is somewhat isolated geographically, making it the most obvious one to combine with the eastern teams, at least in my mind.
Problem is Iowa st. is then cut off from their Farmageddon rivalry with Kansa St.
(I’m getting this all from the big 12 rivalry section on the wiki)
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