It’s not that the Big 12 isn’t a good conference. It’s that its strength is in

Dec 7, 2024
8:45:00pm

garyfan Truly Addicted User

having a good number of good teams, rather than having any elite teams (or as you said, it’s not top heavy).

And the committee is trying to identify great teams, not very good teams.

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The CFP Committee is stupid.

2FarGone No One of Consequence

Dec 7, 8:41pm

It’s not that the Big 12 isn’t a good conference. It’s that its strength is in

garyfan

Dec 7, 8:45pm

great teams don’t lose 3 games including two to 6-6 teams with a blowout

FieroCoug

Dec 7, 8:46pm

But they can beat Georgia, which kind of matters, too.

garyfan

Dec 7, 8:49pm

Oklahoma was 1-6 in conference play before blowing out Alabama for it's second. Bama beat mighty Mercer the week

CLCougar

Dec 7, 8:53pm

“Recent poor performances matter.” Yep. It’s why BYU has no case.

garyfan

Dec 7, 8:56pm

BYU's losses were both by less than 6 points. One to the eventual BIG12 Champ in Tempe. Bama was blown out and

CLCougar

Dec 7, 9:00pm

Let’s not pretend that BYU didn’t look badly down the stretch.

garyfan

Dec 7, 9:04pm

Look at my posts above, did I say one thing to champion BYU? I simply pointed out Alabama isn't deserving..

CLCougar

Dec 7, 9:12pm

Relax. I agreed with your point about recent losses mattering, and used BYU as

garyfan

Dec 7, 9:25pm

Biggest B12 issue is the preseason best teams sucked & worst ended up winning

Das_Countach

Dec 7, 8:49pm

There are no elite teams in college football this year. I call bs

Veep

Dec 7, 9:54pm

During the Big 10 halftime show one of the commenters very clearly said it was all about the brand and not about the

Zach Morris

Dec 7, 8:45pm

Yep, because it’s really all about money and not about fair competition.

DevilCougarDragon

Dec 7, 11:51pm

When the big 12 beats each other up it is because they all suck and when the sec

ballen

Dec 7, 8:49pm

You hit the nail on the head, Ballen.

BYUJoJo

Dec 7, 9:20pm

Because the media was way off in its preseason prognostication. So the Big XII was punished for that.

Spiff

Dec 7, 8:51pm

Was the committee stupid when they kept pac12 out of it most years?

JamieTartt

Dec 7, 8:51pm

Hasn’t PAC non conf been crap though for a long time?

Iman23

Dec 7, 8:54pm

And the SEC has been elite for a long time, which is why losing 2 games in that

garyfan

Dec 7, 8:56pm

Did the Big12 have anything this year besides byu over smu? Cu got throttled by Nebraska.

JamieTartt

Dec 7, 8:56pm

And SMU had played no strong teams … until today (yikes).

garyfan

Dec 7, 8:57pm

But now the Big12 needs to have bowl success. The problem with the pac12 was

HonestTakes

Dec 7, 9:45pm

BYU fans also want to act like conference affiliation entitles the Big 12 to

garyfan

Dec 7, 8:54pm

the problem was the pac 12s best teams had bad non conference losses. that

FieroCoug

Dec 8, 12:44am

Remember

kiyoshige

Dec 7, 9:10pm

By their same argument the NFL is bad because teams don't go undefeated.

Mitty

Dec 8, 1:24pm

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