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hoping Nebraska is good enough this september!

I wish you an 11-1 (9-0 in conference) regular-season record this year.

In the WCWS, OU plays Texas in the 2nd round of the winner's bracket Saturday.  OSU plays Florida in the other winners' bracket game.

Three of the four first-game winners are the Big 12 teams in the series.

play all 7 from your division, play one from the other division
if the two programs want ti to be annually, fine

if you want to play a 2nd or 3rd team from the other division, use your non-con games to make it happen

it's a terrible idea to try to play 15 teams regularly - especially with an 8 game schedule

I don't think they're going to have divisions, because:
● The NCAA has removed restrictions on what it takes to have a CCG.
● Aside from being a money-maker, the CCG--when it's a game between division champions--is increasingly being seen as having too much potential to result in a team not even second-best in the conference winning the conference championship.
● So conferences are moving in the direction of putting the two teams with the best records in the CCG.
● So there is no actual need for divisions.
So, without divisions, there is no rationale for a 7-1 (or 7-2) schedule.

if they arent going to decide it on the field what good does it do to have a CCG

what you are suggesting is CCG by opinion

the number of games won means little without some type of round robin approach

The Big 12 Conference announced $426 million in total revenue distributions for the 2021-22 school year Friday at the league's spring meetings, but the revenue trajectory is bound take a significant hit once the Big 12's two biggest brands — the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns — depart for the SEC. That move will take place no later than Summer 2025, and even with the league welcoming four new members all by 2024, the departure of Oklahoma and Texas is a loss that can't merely be replaced overnight.

Big 12 Board of Directors chairman and Texas Tech president Lawrence Schovanec, speaking with reporters at spring meetings Friday, acknowledged the financial reality the Big 12 is facing as it looks to mitigate future losses. As it stands, BYU will enter the league in 2023, while Houston, Cincinnati and UCF are scheduled to join a year later in 2024, stretching the league's landscape across more than two time zones for the first time. But Schovanec and company know it's more complicated than time zones and membership count to ensure the Big 12 can continue on healthily without the Sooners and Longhorns.

"The financial aspects of this are very important to the health and vitality of our athletic programs," Schovanec said, via ESPN. "We know that. And that's why what we do beyond '24-25 is going to be so important. We recognize that the manner in which this inventory will be distributed is going to change. ... We're all analyzing how we're going to move forward. And I think a lot of that will depend on the relationships we develop with our new media partners. That will be one of the priorities of the new commissioner once that person is in place."


https://247sports.com/college/nebraska/Article/Big-12-football-Conference-addresses-leagues-financial-plans-after-Texas-Oklahoma-depart-188330690/?fbclid=IwAR3k1xQ4RqKUmymPNZdmguVZ88og0NOSu9xEsumanuDPQOfYK3dIHbkK_ug

conferences are too big

I agree, but that horse left the barn back in the 1990s.

conferences this large w/o divisions id even worse

Maybe.
There are pluses and minuses with and without divisions.