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Cream Puffs, Cupcakes, Strudel, with some Danish on the side. That pretty much sums up the non-conference scheduling philosophy of the Big 12. The rest of the BCS has a sweet tooth as well when it comes to out of league play, but it’s the Big 12 with the biggest sugar high.
There are some basic rules for all BCS schools on non-conference scheduling: get 75% of the games on your home field, try not to schedule too many of your BCS bretheren, and throw a financial bone or two to a regional 1-AA team. They all follow it, but according to the blog The Wizard of Odds the Big 12 has it down to a science. Using data provided from a terrific stats site, College Football Statistics The Wizard of Odds looked at the non-conference scheduling for a four years period from 2004-07.
During that stretch, the Big 12 played 199 non-conference games, 31 of which (16%) were against 1-AA teams. Out of those non-league games played from 2004-07, the Big 12 played 136 (68%) against teams out of the BCS.
The SEC was right behind with 30 games against 1-AA teams and 124 (63%) out of 198 non-conference games coming against non-BCS opponents. The other BCS conferences — Big 10, Big East, ACC, and Pac 10, all had over 50% of their non-league games against opponents outside the BCS, but the Big 12 and the SEC are the clear leaders for this decade.
The ACC has obviously learned their lesson. Three ACC teams have two 1-AA teams on their schedules next year. Florida State, Clemson and Ga. Tech will dip into the shallow end of the 1-AA pool twice in 2008. Bobby Bowden has even admitted that they turned down a traditional Monday/Labor Day game because of the players who will have to sit out 3 games over the academic scandal that surfaced during bowl season. The Seminoles will open 2008 against Western Carolina and Tennesse-Chattanooga, two 1-AA teams with a combined 2007 record of 3-19.
What about 2008? Some trends stay the same. The teams of the Big 12 play 35 of their 48 out of conference games at home, with four of the 13 road games at off-campus sites. Also, 33 of the 48 out of league games are against non-BCS opponents (69%), with 9 (19%) against 1-AA teams. Four Big 12 schools do not play a 1-AA opponent – Texas, Texas A&M, Kansas State and Nebraska, but those four have at least one bottom feeder on their schedule. One Big 12 school has three BCS opponents on the non-conference schedule in 2008, and that would be the team that can least afford that deep a schedule — Baylor. The Bears will play Wake Forest, Washington State and Connecticut.
The 2008 season actually has the Big 12 with a few more interesting matchups than in the recent past. Colorado catches West Virginia at home, and plays Florida State in Jacksonville. Nebraska doesn’t play a road game until the second Saturday in October, but they will host Virginia Tech in Lincoln. Kansas State will introduce all their JUCO’s to their fans when they host Fresno State, and they then travel to Louisville.
In the Big 12 South, Texas A&M will host Miami, while Texas renews its rivalry with Arkansas. The Aggies and the Horns have the two most curious road trips. Texas goes out to UTEP, and the Aggies will go to Albuquerque to face New Mexico in a game must have seemed like a good idea at the time to Dennis Franchione.
Then there is the pirate out in Lubbock.
Texas Tech hires a special consultant to help with non-conference scheduling.
Texas Tech has two 1-AA teams on their schedule, although they did screw up and schedule two who made the play-offs. Eastern Washington (9-4) and U Mass (10-3) will visit the plains, as will SMU (1-11). Tech will leave Lubbock and play at Nevada (6-7).
Here is a look at the Big 12 non-conference schedules:
Big 12 North (* 1-AA opponent)
Colorado
Colorado State (3-9) @ Denver
*Eastern Washington (9-4)
West Virginia (11-2)
Florida State (7-6) @ Jacksonville
Kansas
Florida International (1-11)
Lousiana Tech (5-7)
@ South Florida (9-4)
*Sam Houston St. (7-4)
Kansas State
Lousiana-Lafayette (3-9)
Fresno State (9-4)
@ Louisville (6-6)
North Texas (2-10)
Iowa State
*S. Dakota State (7-4)
Kent State (3-9)
@ Iowa (6-6)
@ UNLV (2-10)
Missouri
*SE Missouri State (3-8)
Nevada (6-7)
Buffalo (5-7)
Illinois (9-4) @ St. Louis
Nebraska
Western Michigan (5-7)
San Jose State (5-7)
New Mexico State (4-9)
Virginia Tech (11-3)
Big 12 South (*1-AA opponent)
Texas
Florida Atlantic (8-5)
@ UTEP (4-8)
Arkansas (8-5)
Rice (3-9)
Oklahoma
*Tenn-Chattanooga (2-9)
Cincinnati (10-3)
@ Washington (4-9)
TCU (8-5)
Oklahoma State
Washington State (5-7) @ Seattle
Houston (8-5)
*Missouri State (6-5)
Troy (8-4)
Texas A&M
Arkansas State (5-7)
@ New Mexico (9-4)
Miami (5-7)
Army (3-9)
Texas Tech
*Eastern Washington (9-4)
@ Nevada (6-7)
SMU (1-11)
*U Mass. (10-3)
Baylor
Wake Forest (9-4)
*Northwestern St. (4-7)
Washington St. (5-7)
@ Connecticut (9-4)
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 52 minutes ago
Nordberg,
Ironic indeed……teachable moment, I guess….
NY Horn,
I hope your drunk, because Izzo ain’t coming to Texas……Why don’t we just get Coach K. I mean Coach G came from Duke, they have to be dying to get out of Durham….
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 56 minutes ago
Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 56 minutes ago
Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 57 minutes ago
Trips,
I hear ya. I’m frustrated as well. I guess I just don’t prescribe to such a black and white characterization of the situation. I do know that no matter what happened in the huddle, JCB made a dumb play. If Rick didn’t explain or remind him of the situation, then I
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Pat, know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
Shitty season…..Rick needs to hire some offensive help and someone needs to say it to him. Deloss?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
Trips,
Do you know that he didn’t? JCB has made bad decision all season, why would this be any different. Barnes coached a shitastic game, but on the teams I was the best FT shooter, I never game up the ball unless it was an uncontested layup…..It’s not hard and it doesn’t take a
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
mcpayne, yes, you don’t leave that shit to chance. You don’t let your guys break the huddle or dead ball not knowing precisely what’s expected from them. Barnes doesn’t get 2 mil for coaching PE where he’s hoping the right guy gets fouled.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
mpayne, I’d agree with you if J’Covan had been playing all season and had been in situations to make that decision. Like, you know, against Baylor, when he played all of 3 fucking minutes thanks to rick.
So yes, it is rick’s fault.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
With 15 seconds left, out of a dead ball, most coaches would make it perfectly clear who they wanted to be fouled.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
Stupid decisions by Brown are one of the reasons he sat on the bench for most of the season…lack of coaching maybe, or just a lack of basketball IQ?
Oh well, if Brown doesn’t go off in the 2nd half, we aren’t even playing in OT. Too bad he didn’t get much of a chance
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
Pat, if you were making 2 million a year, would you leave that up to chance?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Actually, if your a PG and the best FT shooter on the team and played basketball your entire life, you’d pretty much know not to give up the ball if you had any brains…..Such a dumb play…..
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D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Oh, and a stupid decision by Brown in giving up the ball to Johnson.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Be nice if we’d coached our 90 percent foul shooter not to give the ball up.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
Ransom,
1 for 2, that was not shitty defense……
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Mister Mike commented on the blog post State of the Union – NU Basketball, Part 1 (or Why We Are Where We Are) 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
Well if you had read it all the way, you would’ve noticed this little tidbit:
In the second part I’ll do my best to give an outline of what exactly is wrong with the program, what we can do to fix it, and then what will probably happen TO fix it.
So to answer your question:
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
The line kills us, as it should have.
Fuck Rick Barnes, as this was the worst coaching I have seen in all my years of watching UT sports.
This saved us from Kentucky, but I feel bad for Damo, he was a hell of a Longhorn.
Hook ‘em!
And FUCK RICK BARNES!
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
Feel bad for Damion…..Dexter and Mason, not so much….
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D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
So the season ends with missed free throws and shitty defense by Bradley. Pretty fitting.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
Yup……We knew that FTs would get us….
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
F’n Gary’s been awful tonight….
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
GJ at the line…big heart needed!
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Why does Brown give it up there?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Bilas explaining why we’re not a smart team…Oh good, I want Gary at the line…
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
The good news is that now I know to fill out the census, so i’m not going to jail…not for that anyway.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
Holy shit
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
F’n A…..WTF….
sooner tim said:
February 17th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
It’s not spectacular, but, outside of Taco Tech, it’s respectable.
WVU
Fl. St.
S. Fla.
Fresno
Louisville
Iowa
Illinois
Virginia Tech
Arkansas
Cincy
U-Dub
TCU
Wash. St. (twice)
Miami
UConn……
I can live with that. Much better than it was a couple years ago.
Do my “nation” a favor and beat the piss out of old Howard when you play Atlantic.
Navy Horn 16 said:
February 18th, 2008 at 7:06 am
That is the formula to win the BCS Championship, and it is a smart one.
A lot of old guys take this “we are playing cupcakes” stance because they still have the ancient Southwest Conference mindset. When you have to get through a 12 team super-conference and a championship game, there is no need to put an extra top-25 type team on your schedule.
If the goal is to win a National Championship, you plan a schedule to get it done. Our conference is strong enough to show that we don’t need help in the early in the season to boost our SOS.
Tune up early and then just win baby.
13evO said:
February 18th, 2008 at 7:08 am
A playoff system would encourage better SOS, as it does in college basketball. And forget the myth that a playoff would dilute the regular season because college football only has 12 games (compared to 30 or so w/ basketball).
Timmay said:
February 18th, 2008 at 7:24 am
OOC Scheduling is the single biggest message board fight you can pick
Huckleberry said:
February 18th, 2008 at 7:39 am
All that talk about BCS teams versus non-BCS teams and the only thing I still want to know is why in the fuck we’re playing Arkansas again.
Stupid.
HenryJames said:
February 18th, 2008 at 7:53 am
It was scheduled by a lot of old guys with the ancient Southwest Conference mindset.
Facebook User said:
February 18th, 2008 at 7:57 am
I’d like us to develop a formula to win the Big 12.
srr50 said:
February 18th, 2008 at 8:37 am
It was scheduled by a lot of old guys with the ancient Southwest Conference mindset.”
I know several of those old guys who keep telling Mack to stay the hell away from Arkansas.
Stupid
EyesOfTX said:
February 18th, 2008 at 8:53 am
I wish he’d listen to those old guys.
South '06 said:
February 18th, 2008 at 9:54 am
In ‘09, Arkansas plays you at home and us in Dallas. What’s with the sudden interest in renewing old SWC rivalries?
HenryJames said:
February 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I can’t think of anything to gain by a Texas school playing Arkansas.
South '06 said:
February 18th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
In our case, it’s money. Dollar-Bill saw a cash-grab opportunity in Jerry Jones’ desire to see his alma mater play a game at Jerryworld. To make that happen, Jerry needed a Texas team willing to play Arkansas that would fill the stadium, which pretty much left him with two options seeing as how Tech, Baylor, and TCU combined couldn’t fill that place.