Same could be said about Rice.
They can’t all play em at home 2 years in a row right?
No, but they can all do a home-and-home with them in the applicable two years.
I think it’s pretty unlikely that UT and OU comes to Houston, but I think there is a decent chance they won’t do home-and-home and we’ll get to play one of them in Austin or Norman.
There is no way we play them once on the road, unless one or both leave earlier than 2024…and i dont think that happens…Either we play them a home and home or we wont play them…
Average attendance in CFB is slightly north of 42000… We have a chance to be a unicorn and grow ours hopefully to 60k, being in the B12
Well before the Helton/Dimel debacle (6 games)…it was really about even !
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Home-and-home is the most typical scheduling, and absent exigent circumstances I’d expect them to do that here. However, deviating from that here actually makes sense as a compromise solution. And it’s not an iron-clad thing. The SEC staggers them out (Florida went to Tuscaloosa in 2014, and Bama went to Gainesville in 2021).
It’s possible that the remaining eight do horde them, but it’s only half of the home-and-home they really care about.
This is my expectation as well. However, I think media appetite would force a UH vs UT at NRG. Ultimately, the bottom line is advertisement dollars and it’s guaranteed to happen if the game can approaches north of 3-4 million viewers on ABC/ FOX.
The media contract for the Big12 for 2023 and 2024 has already been set. So it’s doubtful that ABC/FOX can or will offer anything extra for a UT vs UH game versus a run-of-the-mill UT vs TCU game. Therefore there would be no difference in $$$ to the Big12.
Texas will be Big 12 for 2 years with us…When schedules are set, the 9 game conference schedule will be done, and likely be same for 2023 and 2024, with home and away team the only difference…
If a division set up was done, we have a good chance to play them twice, because all Texas schools would be in same division, but all i read is how they dont want divisions, and i think that is because Texas And OU dont wont it, so they can have more control over who they play…My guess is, Texas plays all 8 members of old Big 12 who remain in league, plus OU…and OU does same…
Ok, well maybe we can beat them in the ccg on the way to the cfp.
I like playing Rice but not because someone thinks it is a rivalry, it is a home-away game that is super easy for me to get to and find a seat wherever I want
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Rice is a “home” game for us, saves the program a lot of travel money, is a win, and a D1 team. Keep playing them.
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To clarify, what I meant by “the Big 12 is not the SEC” I mean that the Big 12 let UT do what it wanted to do, whereas the SEC isn’t going to change the rules to accommodate Texas.
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Oh so it will not be a penalty on SEC players doing horns down to UT fans?
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UH’s largest beat down of the whorns by point differential:
1976: UH 30 – UT 0
1987: UH 60 – UT 40 (Huge come from behind that left UT fans in shock after premature celebrations)
1988: UH 66 – UT 15
OU’s largest beat down of the whorns by point differential:
1908: OU 50 – UT 0 (prior to B12 but thought I would throw it in)
2004: OU 65 – UT 13
2011: OU 55 – UT 17
2012: OU 63 – UT 21
Our largest differential was 51points in 1988, OU’s was 52 in 2004. But there’s no big differential in wins over UT by remaining B12 members.
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I am proud to have attended the 60-40 beatdown in 1987, and the 47-9 beatdown of UH in 1989.
PARDEE!!!
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As did I and it was wonderful. I attended the 66-15 beat down at UT the next year and it was even better. I mean there was great wailing and gnashing of teeth of biblical proportions. And in 1989 we beat them again in the dome 49-9. Those were three great years of Pardee time.
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The ultimate insult would be if the rest of the conference didn’t care enough about Texas to bother with the downhorn.
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