What i would have done is swap UCF-ISU with UCF-UH. The space race may become a big rivalry bushed by the big 12. And give ISU-Cincy so they can make it seem like a midwest rivalry.
I think you did a great job on this. This is so much better than divisions or pods, which are OK for some sports, but not for football as it is currently played.
1. The Arizona & Utah schools. 2. CU, ISU, Ku & KSU. 3. Cinn., CF, Houston & WVU. 4. Baylor, Ok St, TCU & Tech. Keep the old WAC &PAC schools together. Keep the old Big East & American together. The old big 12 north. The old big 12south plus TCU.
Why is this better than 4 pods of 4 with the following: West: Zona, ASU, BYU, Utah Plains: CU, KU, KSU, ISU Central: OSU, Tech, Baylor, TCU East: UH, Cinci, UCF, WVU Then play two teams from each pod every year, play the other two the next, you can play everyone in the conference within 2 years and play everyone at home within 4 years..
The 4 Pod system is much better for about half of the schools and very similar results for most of the rest. College Football should be encouraging natural rivalries. Utah, BYU, Arizona and Arizona State fit very naturally in a pod. Old Big 12 North Colorado, Kansas State, Kansas, Iowa State Old Big 12 South Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma State + TCU American Conference Houston, Cincinnati, UCF + West Virginia. I would add an additional rivalry game to help some Schools maintain regionality and give Houston the 1st pick since they are the ones that are in the East pod and want to be South. Houston- Tech/Baylor/TCU Cincinnati with Iowa State Colorado and Utah. Then build the rest from there.
@@rumesh_lance Divisions are not the same as pods. Division Champions are used to determine who gets in Conference Championship games (Old Big 12 North/South) or Playoffs (AFC West). Pods are for scheduling purposes only just like 3, 6- 6. Houston in an East pod example would play the 3 East members and then play 2 in the South, North and West. So the schedule would look like this: East: UCF, @WVU, CIN, North: @ KSU, CU, South @OSU, TCU West @Utah, UA Year 2 would be either playing the other teams that you missed or flipping home games to away games. In 4 years you play every team home and away at least once. Championship game is based on the best 2 conference records.
Pod system would easily allow for every team to play against Texas. If you have a Pod system with TCU, Baylor and Tech in a South Pod.... it would mean that every team would play at least 1 Texas team in a year. Example Kansas State plays 2 South and 2 East pod teams. Year 1 and Year 2 flip location South: Tech, @OSU East: CIN, @WVU Year 3 and 4 flip location. South: Baylor, @ TCU East: Houston @ UCF In this pod system Kansas State would visit all 4 Texas schools during a four year stretch. Every school in the East, North and West would also do the same thing.
When you make WVU and BYU annual rivals, something is wrong. This new conference doesn't have many three-deep rivalries so why not stop at 2 annual rivals, play 2 rivals and seven other conference games to reach nine. Stop your video at 0:51 and let's continue with Iowa St. and Kansas, Cincy and WVU, UCF and WVU then Cincy and UCF to finish out the east. Oklahoma State and Houston have no rivals yet so let's pair them up and also pair the Cowboys with their old Big 8 rivals, Colorado. That leaves UH, BYU, UA and ASU so let's pair ASU with BYU (old WAC rivals) and UH with UA. That should give each team two geographic rivals plus maximum flexibility in the rest of the conference scheduling.
I think he could have done better with ISU/WVU when he got toward the end…although as an ISU fan I’m sure ISU might prefer UCF especially if this is a home/away for hoops because everybody could use a breather in this conference.
I agree with Iowa State and UCF being a protected pair because Iowa State has done quite a bit of recruiting here in Florida over the years. Iowa State willl love playing near Orlando (UCF's campus is suburban) every other year.
You are handicapping yourself by keeping TTU only playing Texas schools, and OKst only playing big 8 schools, and Colorado playing western schools if you have ttu them play some schools in Arizona, and okst play some texas schools, and Colorado play some big 8 schools you could have better opponents for wvu and byu
They don’t make as much sense but if ACC really adds Cal/Stanford/SMU the Big 12 is drastically more regional than ACC and Big Ten. SEC has actually added regionally to get to 16 so far going way back to Arkansas add. With SEC and new Big 12 it’s more about the big oversized number than that there’s a horrible geographic mess. In a few years I could see the Big 12 filling in around Cincy/WVU to where it’s really just UCF as an outlier unless by some shock Miami doesn’t get into Big ten or SEC.
SEC with all the geographical proximity didn't go to pods, instead did 3 permanent rivals, whats makes u think its better for Big12 which is geographical hodgepodge
@@rumesh_lance 1. SEC hasnt created a 16 team format yet so we dont actually know what their scheduling will look like. 2. The SEC isnt necessarily smarter than the Big 12. 3. There are bigger geographical differences in the Big 12 which makes pods more valuable.... not less. It is important for Utah to have as many shorter Western trips as possible. UCF should have as many Eastern trips as possible. That is why I want to limit schools to one trip to the 4 corners schools and 1 trip to the Eastern time zone unless that is their pod.
SEC still does lot lot of things right when it comes to football (except for playing only 8), 3 Permanent rivalries give each team individualized opponents instead of grouping and dividing @@darkjedi0001
What i would have done is swap UCF-ISU with UCF-UH. The space race may become a big rivalry bushed by the big 12. And give ISU-Cincy so they can make it seem like a midwest rivalry.
This is correct, also BYU-Baylor might develop into a rivalry, ISU- Cincy is a sweet add
I love that you used the very first UCF mascot with the Citronaut!!! That's awesome!!! #GKCO
I think you did a great job on this. This is so much better than divisions or pods, which are OK for some sports, but not for football as it is currently played.
Only thing i would’ve done differently is give Colorado a old big 8 team (KU or KSU) instead of Arizona State
Totally agree, KSU is the closest big8 school to CU
1. The Arizona & Utah schools.
2. CU, ISU, Ku & KSU.
3. Cinn., CF, Houston & WVU.
4. Baylor, Ok St, TCU & Tech.
Keep the old WAC &PAC schools together.
Keep the old Big East & American together.
The old big 12 north.
The old big 12south plus TCU.
I think Baptists vs Mormons, Space Race (Houston vs UCF), The Real Cougars(BYU vs Houston). Would have been good choices
Networks might like AZ/KU 2x year for basketball if these are used for basketball.
Less likely but can see the new scheduling preserve the UCF - UH space race as UH's sole AAC rivalry that also ensures UCF a Texas matchup each year.
Way better than divisions or pods, hope they come up with something similar to this
Why is this better than 4 pods of 4 with the following:
West: Zona, ASU, BYU, Utah
Plains: CU, KU, KSU, ISU
Central: OSU, Tech, Baylor, TCU
East: UH, Cinci, UCF, WVU
Then play two teams from each pod every year, play the other two the next, you can play everyone in the conference within 2 years and play everyone at home within 4 years..
@@dacokc This takes Houston all the way to east back to their old AAC matchups not gonna be good for ratings, worse if ISU were to get east pod
The 4 Pod system is much better for about half of the schools and very similar results for most of the rest.
College Football should be encouraging natural rivalries.
Utah, BYU, Arizona and Arizona State fit very naturally in a pod.
Old Big 12 North
Colorado, Kansas State, Kansas, Iowa State
Old Big 12 South
Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma State + TCU
American Conference
Houston, Cincinnati, UCF + West Virginia.
I would add an additional rivalry game to help some Schools maintain regionality and give Houston the 1st pick since they are the ones that are in the East pod and want to be South.
Houston- Tech/Baylor/TCU
Cincinnati with Iowa State
Colorado and Utah.
Then build the rest from there.
@why make things so complicated, 3 permanent rivalries will solve most of it without having any divisions in the conference@@darkjedi0001
Normally I agree with you but I think the big 12 will go with regional pods.
Do you realize divisions and pods are sort of the same thing, and whole college football world is going away with divisions.......
@@rumesh_lance Divisions are not the same as pods. Division Champions are used to determine who gets in Conference Championship games (Old Big 12 North/South) or Playoffs (AFC West).
Pods are for scheduling purposes only just like 3, 6- 6.
Houston in an East pod example would play the 3 East members and then play 2 in the South, North and West. So the schedule would look like this:
East: UCF, @WVU, CIN,
North: @ KSU, CU,
South @OSU, TCU
West @Utah, UA
Year 2 would be either playing the other teams that you missed or flipping home games to away games. In 4 years you play every team home and away at least once.
Championship game is based on the best 2 conference records.
I would still give each of the new 8 teams a TX opponent as part of integration to the Big 12 conference
Pod system would easily allow for every team to play against Texas.
If you have a Pod system with TCU, Baylor and Tech in a South Pod.... it would mean that every team would play at least 1 Texas team in a year.
Example
Kansas State plays 2 South and 2 East pod teams.
Year 1 and Year 2 flip location
South: Tech, @OSU
East: CIN, @WVU
Year 3 and 4 flip location.
South: Baylor, @ TCU
East: Houston @ UCF
In this pod system Kansas State would visit all 4 Texas schools during a four year stretch. Every school in the East, North and West would also do the same thing.
Cincinnati/Iowa State makes more sense than Cincinnati/Houston
When you make WVU and BYU annual rivals, something is wrong. This new conference doesn't have many three-deep rivalries so why not stop at 2 annual rivals, play 2 rivals and seven other conference games to reach nine. Stop your video at 0:51 and let's continue with Iowa St. and Kansas, Cincy and WVU, UCF and WVU then Cincy and UCF to finish out the east. Oklahoma State and Houston have no rivals yet so let's pair them up and also pair the Cowboys with their old Big 8 rivals, Colorado. That leaves UH, BYU, UA and ASU so let's pair ASU with BYU (old WAC rivals) and UH with UA. That should give each team two geographic rivals plus maximum flexibility in the rest of the conference scheduling.
Yeah byu and west Virginia won’t be annual rivals
Too far apart to be a rival. BYU -Bay or BYU- Hou makes better sense@@fullarmorofgod9638
I think he could have done better with ISU/WVU when he got toward the end…although as an ISU fan I’m sure ISU might prefer UCF especially if this is a home/away for hoops because everybody could use a breather in this conference.
I think ISU would prefer either cincy or wvu along with KS schools@@caseyhayes4590
My list.
BYU - Utah, ASU, UofA
Utah - BYU, CU, ASU
Colorado - Utah, Okst, kst
UofA - ASU, TTU, BYU
ASU - UofA, Utah, BYU
Baylor - Houston, TCU, TTU
TTU - UofA, okst, Baylor
Okst - CU, TTU, TCU
Kst - CU, ISU, KU
KU - ISU, kst, Cincinnati
Houston - Baylor, TCU, UCF
TCU - Houston, okst, Baylor
WVU - UCF, Cincinnati, ISU
UCF - Cincinnati, WVU, Houston
Cincinnati - UCF, WVU, KU
ISU - KU, KSt, WVU
I agree with Iowa State and UCF being a protected pair because Iowa State has done quite a bit of recruiting here in Florida over the years. Iowa State willl love playing near Orlando (UCF's campus is suburban) every other year.
You are handicapping yourself by keeping TTU only playing Texas schools, and OKst only playing big 8 schools, and Colorado playing western schools if you have ttu them play some schools in Arizona, and okst play some texas schools, and Colorado play some big 8 schools you could have better opponents for wvu and byu
Conferances don't make any sense now.
They don’t make as much sense but if ACC really adds Cal/Stanford/SMU the Big 12 is drastically more regional than ACC and Big Ten. SEC has actually added regionally to get to 16 so far going way back to Arkansas add. With SEC and new Big 12 it’s more about the big oversized number than that there’s a horrible geographic mess. In a few years I could see the Big 12 filling in around Cincy/WVU to where it’s really just UCF as an outlier unless by some shock Miami doesn’t get into Big ten or SEC.
Nah… the pods would be better than this….
SEC with all the geographical proximity didn't go to pods, instead did 3 permanent rivals, whats makes u think its better for Big12 which is geographical hodgepodge
@@rumesh_lance 1. SEC hasnt created a 16 team format yet so we dont actually know what their scheduling will look like.
2. The SEC isnt necessarily smarter than the Big 12.
3. There are bigger geographical differences in the Big 12 which makes pods more valuable.... not less. It is important for Utah to have as many shorter Western trips as possible. UCF should have as many Eastern trips as possible. That is why I want to limit schools to one trip to the 4 corners schools and 1 trip to the Eastern time zone unless that is their pod.
SEC still does lot lot of things right when it comes to football (except for playing only 8), 3 Permanent rivalries give each team individualized opponents instead of grouping and dividing @@darkjedi0001