Mid Majors should Boycott the Big 12

[shaft]

I just noticed the Big 12 is the only AQ conference that doesn't play a mid-major in a bowl game. ACC and PAC-12 play 2 bowls against mid majors and th Big Ten, Big East, and SEC all play one bowl game against the little guys.

[Eastwood Eagle]

Mid Majors should not play the Big 12 because the Big 12 won't play Mid Majors? Sounds like a win win.

Edited December 28, 2011 by Eastwood Eagle

[NM Green]

and give up a shot a beating them - no, I don't think so. I have seen us beat Texas Tech twice and Baylor. We are getting strong enough to compete with them home or away.

GMG

[GoMeanGreen1999]

Didn't the Big 12 just invite a "Mid Major" to be apart of their conference?

[foutsrouts]

Didn't the Big 12 just invite a "Mid Major" to be apart of their conference?

Don't know why we even use that term. It's total BS to create a class system just because some school is in an AQ conference. Hopefully the AQ and Mid-Major terms will go away simultaneously.

[Mean Green 93-98]

The bowl matchups are set the way they are, and the way things worked out at the end of the season, the Big 12 didn't end up having a team matching up against a "mid-major" team. Not sure what the big deal is. I don't see any SEC team matching up against a "mid-major" team either. Bowl games usually tend to match teams of similar pedigree against each other.

[shaft]

I'm not talking about how the match ups worked out. The Big 12 is the only conference that does not have a bowl game with a tie-in with a mid-major. SEC has the Liberty Bowl with CUSA. Big Ten has the Pizza Bowl with the MAC. There's no reason the Big 12 with it's nine bowl tie- ins couldn't schedule a game with any mid major conference.

And no the B12 didn't just add a mid major. The B12 wouldn't touch TCU until they were in the Big East.

[Mean Green 93-98]

I guess I just don't understand why it should bother me. Conferences work out the bowl tie-ins they believe are to their best advantage. If the Big 12 managed to keep all 9 bowl tie-ins with major conferences, good for them.

[shaft]

Take away the mid majors from the B12 schedule and they don't have 8-9 bowl eligible teams.

Or we can keep rolling over and accepting scraps off the AQ table.

[UNT Five&Dime]

Take away the mid majors from the B12 schedule and they don't have 8-9 bowl eligible teams.

Or we can keep rolling over and accepting scraps off the AQ table.

My thinking is the Mid-Majors should win those scheduled games to keep them from being bowl eligible. Much more exciting if you ask me.

[shaft]

Not every Big school, just the Big 12.

and of course it's a meaningless rant. It's the off season and just trying to get something going on this board.