re: Keep it Simple OU to the East , CHANGE:: NO DIV. NO PODS. 2-3 annual rivals, 8 CONF GAMES

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I've been saying for years that the 8-team conference schedule is one of the smartest things the SEC does.The Big 12 was stupid to go to 9,true round-robin or not.

Eight in conference allows you a non-conference schedule of:

1. A big-name program to excite fans and show you're not ducking good competition

2. A middling FBS team (decent G5 or lower P5) where a top-25 school has at least a 90% chance of winning

3. A garbage FBS team that might scare you in the first half every five years if you go into it sleepwalking.

4. Some poor FCS team that most of us have only heard of because somebody good played them in basketball that one time ten years ago. That's your extra bye week before rivalry week.

Plus what was said earlier about half your teams automatically having an extra loss with 9 conference games.

8 = smart, 9 = dumb

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Certainly can't do round robin and a conference championship game. It's one or the other.

The Big 12's "one true champion" bit hit an iceberg the very first year when they had Baylor/TCU co-champions. Probably cost TCU a shot at the playoffs, when they were arguably the best team at the end of the season.