Does BYU really want 8 P5 Big 12 games followed by 2 SEC games in the same season? Sounds like a formula for disaster. No P5 team should be looking for 2 P5 games OOC, let alone the 3 P5s OOC that appear on his schedule.
As I read Tom Holmoe's quote, this is what I'm hearing most:
“The first thing we do is we look at our contracts, and we have many varying and widely different contracts with different teams,” said Holmoe to the Zone Sports Network powered by KSL Sports earlier this month. “Those were contracts that took a lot of time to put together and schedules that took a lot of time to put together. And now, some of those will have to unwind. So we’re in the process of that right now, looking at each individual year and the games that will fit into the schedule of a Big 12 [schedule]. We’re in that process right now.”
What is meant by games fitting into the Big 12 schedule? I read a Bowlsby quote that said there were questions about the details like divisions, number of OOC games, etc. that will be worked out, but also gave some "Big 12 scheduling principles" like OOC games will be during the first 4 weeks of the season. Maybe an exception here and there during the transition timeframe--but generally I'm reading this as "no keeping USC/Stanford Thanksgiving weekend games going forward--even though those games are high profile. Gotta start thinking about being part of the conference rather than "it would be great to keep these exceptions to what the conference does". I'll analyze any other new members' future schedules to see if post-week 4 games appear likely at all in a bit.Statistics: Posted by Fido — Thu Oct 28, 2021 9:53 am
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