Just depends on what they want to do. The AAC has fewer teams so only 2 programs we don’t play home and home, believe we have played SMU every year twice. USF and ECU are the two we don’t play twice this year. It was Tulsa/ECU last year, Temple/Memphis before that.
Makes sense to give us 2-3 permanent rivals for basketball but they could just do the one and everything else is random.
So every year we play in the Space Bowl to win the astronaut trophy.
I agree. It doesn’t seem imperitive that we play Baylor and Tech with the same frequency as Iowa State or WVU. I’m perfectly fine with UCF as one of three regulars.
Once UT and OU leave we have 11 possible opponents.
Anyone seen anything as to a proposed rotating schedule?
Assume The Big 12 stays with 9 conference games annually.
How would that work?
Most speculation I have seen involve 1 or 3 permanent rivals and the rest rotate.
Some are suggesting 3 pods of four, usually us with the eastern schools.
thissss
I hate how in 2022 “rivals” is basically a forced relationship.
UH and UCF on thanksgiving? In a league where the commissioner can barely remember our name, we would be featured on thanksgiving? Which by the way, I would hate to have UCF as a football rival. We never seem to beat them, nor BYU.
We each have to play someone on Thanksgiving…
Every Big12 school plays on Thanksgiving?
Oh I see. My bad. I meant (but did not say) Thanksgiving weekend not necessarily the day of Thanksgiving.
It sucks because the traditional rivals from the SWC are where the money and fans are.
Ultimately, the fans will decide rivalries.
Exactly. I’d have hoped we’d have been paired with someone on our block. But UCF is by itself and we’re on the gulf coast so…sigh
We are the closest school to UCF- who should they be paired with that makes more sense than another city school?
Cincinnati and West Virginia are already matched.
I’m not saying it doesn’t make sense to the conference. Just that its unfortunate for both of us.
It sucks because nobody givs a frack about ucf
I could care less.
We wanted to be in the Big 12 for so long, under any circumstance, and now we are getting pissy because they paired us with them as the most logical companion for UCF?
Well we all know UT would do anything they could to make sure they dont have to play us twice in that one year.
Because they aren’t our rival. How many people do you work with that went to UCF? How many friends? How many parents of your kids friends went there? Rivalries are fun when you know people from the opposing side, get to talk friendly trash and mix it up on a regular basis. I’ve come across one UCF grad in my entire life and he was a doosh.
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