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TKthunder2

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  1. and the 2nd coolest live mascot
  2. My guess 2024 Texas: vs Oklahoma (Texas is the away team) at aggy, at LSU, at South Carolina Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Mississippi St at DKR 2024 Oklahoma: at Alabama, at Ole Miss, at Tennessee, at Vandy Mizzou, Georgia, Kentucky at Gaylord vs Texas (Oklahoma is the home team) Because we’ll have an off balanced schedule with the Cotton Bowl, OU in home team in even years so they’ll only get 3 SEC home games while we get 4. We owed LSU a return game, aggy/pig are likely our 9 game rivals so we play them. Just played at Arkansas so we get them at home, aggy is whiny bitch so that’s away, and we literally just played Alabama, and also faced Ole Miss semi recently so they’ll give them to OU. Oklahoma had at 2023 home game with Georgia and a 2024 game at Tennessee cancelled so they’ll play those. They’ve also played aggy and Auburn more recently (in bowls) so those are Texas games and likely will be a rival with Mizzou and so they get them too. That leaves Texas with Florida as the last top 8 opponent not assigned, Mississippi State (since OU got Ole Miss) and South Carolina since our schedule looks far weaker so OU gets Vandy/Kentucky. Texas plays at Michigan (which we moved to facilitate this early release) and Oklahoma only has Tulane/Temple currently scheduled as out of conference so their logic to this balance.
  3. Religious so they had to hit on every other applicable category.
  4. https://247sports.com/Article/Big-12-expansion-eyes-Memphis-substantive-talks-with-Colorado-per-reports-210957842/Amp/ Memphis?
  5. Shitshow lol. But I guess this is a way to stick it to UCLA (even if it hits Berkeley too).
  6. Texas/Bama pulled 11 million viewers last year, UGA/UF pulled 6. I think hurtlocker is right that it likely had more to do with getting Big Ten games to fit into their available slots while keeping their SEC requirements for this last year. Either way it’s the last year so I’ve probably spent too much times thinking about this already lol.
  7. ASU and USF wow good for them, but Georgia still didn’t make the cut…Miami just got more attractive to the Big Ten.
  8. Not trying to confuse, and I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on the SEC’s CBS deal but historically they don’t typically broadcast non conference games. Maybe you can find a specific example but I think that is likely an exception outside of the norm. I trust @Hurtlocker take, but my point was, simply by looking at the first three weeks of this season, the CBS Tier One deal is handicapping the SEC’s numbers. I do see last year they broadcasted Penn State at Auburn in week 3, and going back 5 years I’m only seeing Tenn/WVU at Charlotte as the only other OOC game (which was neutral site outside of their TV deal) so there must be the PGA or something blocking them from week 1/2 games otherwise I would assume Texas at Alabama in week 2 would be on CBS. Either way my point is basically that, while partnered up with CBS, the SEC’s first 3 weeks skew lower, but they should change once fully in ESPN.
  9. The Big Ten’s deal starts this year so they already lost those ESPN numbers. Other than the SEC’s 230 spot on CBS starting week 3 (they only have partial CBS distribution this year), the Big Ten already has all its OTA options included in that number. It will go up but not significantly. Big 12 will lose some but they’ll still have that FOX showcase and an ESPN late night spot if they add some P12 teams.
  10. Which out of conference game is airing on CBS? The first CBS game of the year is week 3, South Carolina at Georgia. CBS does not broadcast any OOC games week 1 or 2. https://fbschedules.com/sec-football-schedule/
  11. For who? For Tier One: I think the Big Ten and SEC’s will increase. SEC is slightly handicapped as non conference home games aren’t eligible for OTA due to their CBS deal. Once that expires that should go up and the Big Ten will likely just add another with USC joining. The PAC will go down if they don’t get a deal obviously. I think the ACC’s will increase and the Big 12 w/o UT/OU will decrease some but not a ton, but might stay the same if they add P12 schools.
  12. These are the funniest videos ever to hit the interwebs. You guys clearly just have bad taste.
  13. Ted goes homes, Beard quits to travel/be with Jade or some shit, Roy takes over as head coach and settles with Kelee, Nate is the new head assistant, Rebecca adopts a kid somehow and gets with Sam, Trent write a NYT best seller, and Rupert gets tied up in some #metoo shit…
  14. UT+OU=8 additional conference games (staying at 8 games) Going to 9 games means the 16 teams would play each other 1 more time=8 additional conference games. 8+8=16
  15. This is an easy solution. Step 1: Buy more overpriced hotels Step 2: Let them sit vacant for years Step 3: Pay me my consultants fees to find out Step 3 Step 4: Homelessness solved
  16. Remember when the top 4 CFP rankings were Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Alabama, Auburn? That’s the most annoying thing, living outside of the SEC’s sphere over the last decade. Alabama/LSU and other generally deserved their rankings, Mississippi State/Kentucky and their ilk did not and got the benefit of the doubt far too often. It sets up big time games which inflates rankings and audiences. Which just continually perpetuates the feedback loop where it’s a good loss or a great win. The media (ESPN) echos this constantly, which leads to better rankings and eventually recruiting. We’ve been making this argument for years…but fuck it, if you can’t beat’em…
  17. I agree, there was absolutely no reason Kentucky should have been ranked as high as 7th in the nation last year after beating (checks notes) Miami of Ohio, Youngstown State, Northern Illinois, and an absurdly overrated Florida team. But they were: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll?week=5
  18. Why does this matter? Is recently top 10 ranked Kentucky football program that big of a bitch they can’t play a single P5 school each year? For fuck’s sake dump Louisville and schedule Illinois, Indiana, Wake Forest, Duke, Rutgers, Kansas, and Arizona. UK with SEC money out the ass, is playing games AT Toledo and AT Akron…they should be ridiculed to no end. 2023 09/02 - Ball State 09/09 - Eastern Kentucky 09/16 - Akron 11/25 - at Louisville 2024 08/31 - at Akron 09/21 - Ohio 11/16 - Murray State 11/30 - Louisville 2025 08/30 - Toledo 09/13 - Eastern Michigan 11/15 - Tennessee Tech 11/29 - at Louisville 2026 09/05 - Akron 09/19 - Youngstown State 09/26 - South Alabama 11/28 - Louisville 2027 09/04 - Toledo 09/18 - Murray State 09/25 - Ball State 11/27 - at Louisville 2028 09/02 - at Toledo 09/09 - Kent State 09/30 - Eastern Illinois 11/25 - Louisville 2029 09/01 - Georgia Southern 11/24 - at Louisville
  19. What do you think is about to happen when UT/OU join? They will be renegotiating.
  20. The DA is pathetic. APD is bad, but the DA is the bigger problem we’re facing in this city currently.
  21. Texas and Oklahoma are going to vote for 9 games due to the game in Dallas. They did not sign up for playing more G5/FCS teams at DKR/Gaylord. I assume they’ll use that tactic if it come to it: “Look you’re just going to get outvoted when UT/OU join and look like pussies and make the conference look weak and indecisive if you vote for 8.”
  22. Bama/LSU/Ole Miss/Arkansas make up only 5 of our OOC games in the last 10 years. There are still plenty of quality teams outside of the SEC that will bring in eyeballs: ND, tOSU, Mich, Pedo, Wisc, Neb, Mich St, USC, UCLA, FSU, Clem, UNC, Miami, VT, Ore, Wash The ones in bold are teams we’ve played recently or already have on the schedule. I don’t see this as a loss of the general fan. Even if you lose the blockbuster 10 million viewer game every few years this will likely attract more 4 million viewer games that Texas and Oklahoma haven’t been able to consistently do with our Big 12 schedules. Consistent premium quality is better for fans than getting a blockbuster once every half decade of so. I’d rather fuck the hottest milf at the country club every week than hold out for a super model every five years. https://www.secrant.com/rant/sec-football/the-4-million-club/97791125/
  23. Other than Tech those were all rank v ranked games, while it’s undoubtedly a good indicator, it is not a sustainable metric of success. I’ll say it again, 3 things drive college football: nationally relevant rivalries big time brands ranked v ranked matchups You can get lucky with rankings occasionally but that doesn’t drive value that will be recognized by the networks When FOX and ABC have ranked v ranked games to put on TV the Big 12 looks good, but what will the ratings look like when you don’t have a great ranked v ranked game of the week, or an undefeated team that draws national interest? For the answer you can look at the PAC12 who despite being OTA nationally on FOX they were only the 7th most watched game of the week behind games on cable.
  24. They’ll lock up a really good spot on FOX that likely was mostly dedicated to UT/OU previously, which should raise their average for each of the R8. Even if they lose spots on ABC and end up on ESPN more, they’ll still come out ahead, which is why I think ultimately they’ll landed Colorado and Arizona.
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