Eyes Of Texas

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Looks like Larry Scott is going to let Texas keep the Longhorn Network but add Pac-12 (or Pac-16) programming and split the conference into four pods for scheduling purposes, according to the Austin American-Statesmen.
USC would play the other three teams in its pod (Pod A) and then play two teams from Pod B, Pod C and Pod D for nine conference games.

4 thoughts on “Eyes Of Texas”

  1. Damn…. get it done and over with already! This thing has taken on a life of its own. I can’t read or watch any CF news or even watch a game right now wondering what this confeence is going to look like next month or next year. Its hard to just concentrate on the games themselves.

  3. California Pod: USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford
    Northwest Pod: Wash, Wash St, Oregon, Oregon St
    Southwest Pod: Texas, Texas Tech, OK, OK St
    Mountain? Pod: ASU, UofA, Col, Utah

    Sample Pac 16 schedule for SC
    Year 1 & 2 with home & away:
    UCLA, Stanford, Cal, Wash, Oregon St, Texas, OK State, ASU, Col
    Year 3 & 4 with home & away:
    UCLA, Stanford, Cal, Wash St, Oregon, Texas Tech, OK, UofA, Utah
    I like having a 2 division conference, but this would limit games against teams in other division to every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

  4. The conference championship game could get dicey if there were teams with the same conference record. The title game would be the teams with the 2 best conference records. The problem I see is the tie breaker. Especially if you have more than 2 teams tied. You could have a year where there are 4 teams tied for first with 2 losses each. You would have to only take into account conference games, since it shouldn’t be a disadvantage if you played harder non-con games, or easier if you played Presbytarian College. Face to face is the easiest tie breaker, but this can break down with more than 2 schools involved. Also there will be a very big likelihood that 2 schools will be tied without playing each other. Unfortunately I believe at some point one of the tie breakers would have to include poll rankings.

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