1 year, 1 month ago

Big 12 football scheduling model for 2024-2027 revealed: Breaking down the conference’s changes

By Max Olson, Sam Khan Jr. and Justin Williams The Big 12 revealed its new football scheduling model for the 2024 through 2027 seasons Wednesday, offering a first look at how it will operate as a 16-team conference starting next year. Four protected rivalries will play every year in the new model: Arizona versus Arizona State, Baylor versus TCU, BYU versus Utah and Kansas versus Kansas State. — Sam Khan Jr., college football senior writer The alternative to protected rivalries With next season’s 16-team Big 12 set to look drastically different — eight remaining teams and eight newcomers compared to just a season ago — the conference is leaning into that new structure by ensuring each member gets a home-and-home with the other 15 over the next four seasons. With only four protected rivalries, that means Iowa State’s and Kansas State’s “Farmageddon” rivalry — which has been played every year since 1917 — will no longer be annual. GO DEEPER Big 12 votes to accept Colorado as member In Colorado’s first season back, the Buffaloes will host five home games against Baylor, Cincinnati, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Utah in 2024.

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7 hours, 31 minutes ago

Texas, Arizona State to meet in CFP clash of old vs. new Big 12 champs

Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas won the Big 12 title in 2023 on its way out the door to the Southeastern Conference. You’re not used to some of these environments,” Sun Devils coach Kenny Dillingham said Monday. “The guys we’ve gotten from Texas and coach program have been unbelievable,” Dillingham said. “That’s a team who kicked me out and said I’d …

2 weeks, 2 days ago

2024 College Football Playoff guide: What to know about the new 12-team format, at-large bids

New York Times

College football entered a new era Sunday with the unveiling of the first 12-team Playoff bracket. For most of its century-plus existence, college football had a “mythical national champion.” The sport’s season champion was determined after teams played in bowl games by various polls and rankings, which, of course, led to significant debate. The four quarterfinal games and both semifinals …

3 weeks, 5 days ago

Big 12 goes into final weekend with four-way tie for 1st and both title game spots up for grabs

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Things to watch during the final weekend of the regular-season in the Big 12 Conference, with Arizona State, BYU, Colorado and Iowa State tied for first place and both spots in the Dec. 7 Big 12 championship game still up for grabs: Games of the week …

1 month, 1 week ago

The Big 12 leads the way when it comes to nail-biters with 13 games decided in the final minute

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The Cyclones got through non-conference play unscathed thanks to Kyle Konrardy’s 54-yard field goal with six seconds left in a 20-19 win over instate rival Iowa on Sept. 7. ACC team Pittsburgh also won its first seven games this season, including last-minute wins against Big 12 …

2 months, 1 week ago

College football midseason bowl projections: How new CFP format impacts rest of bowl season

New York Times

The expanded College Football Playoff will give this sport something that previously was unrivaled by the other sport: a true Selection Sunday. Texas Clemson-Alabama winner 8:45 p.m. ESPN Orange Jan. 9 Miami, Fla. Quarterfinal winner Quarterfinal winner 7:30 p.m. ESPN Cotton Jan. 10 Arlington, Texas Quarterfinal winner Quarterfinal winner 7:30 p.m. ESPN Championship Jan. 20 Atlanta Semifinal winner Semifinal winner …

3 months, 1 week ago

Oregon State AD says the new Pac-12 will look to add new schools quickly

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes said the newly rebuilt Pac-12 will look to add at least two more schools for 2026 as quickly as possible. “Get it right, but it’s in our best interest to move as quickly as we can.” The …

54 years, 11 months ago

College football realignment: The Pac-12’s expansion augurs a ruthless new era.

Slate

Bad news first: College sports continues to besiege itself with chaotic realignment of its conferences, leaving even more schools with reasons to be paranoid about their future ability to keep up with the nation’s Joneses. Without enough teams to stage a conference championship game, they’re the only teams among 134 in the top level of college football who cannot access …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

New-look Big 12 ready to embark on a season of big expectations, enormous pressure to win

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “I think the Penn State game is huge for us,” said Mountaineers coach Neal Brown, whose job was starting to come into question before they won nine games last season. “You’re correct,” Brown said, “it’s a big game for our league, and this new Big 12, …

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Big 12 newcomers struggled in debuts. Now they’re getting ready for the league to change again

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF all had losing records and were in the bottom half of the Big 12 standings last season. “He did a good job of paying attention, asking questions and coaching guys.” Fritz came from Tulane after that American Athletic Conference team two …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

The dust is settling on college sports realignment. A look at where schools are going

Associated Press

College sports in the U.S. has seen scores of schools change conference affiliation over the past century, but the pace has quickened over the past three decades and certainly over the past year. 2024 : Boston College, California, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest. …

10 months ago

With 12-team playoff set, CFP already discussing possibly more teams for 2026 and beyond

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! DALLAS — Now that the yearslong process to finalize how the 12 teams for the expanded College Football Playoff will be selected for the next two seasons is complete, there are already discussions about maybe adding more teams for 2026 and beyond. The CFP management committee …

10 months ago

College Football Playoff approves 12-team format, reduces spots for conference champs

LA Times

The field for the 12-team College Football Playoff beginning next season will comprise five conference champions and seven at-large selections after the university presidents who oversee the CFP voted unanimously Tuesday to tweak the format. The original plan for the 12-team format was to have the six highest-ranked conference champions, with the top four receiving first-round byes, and six at-large …

10 months ago

College Football Playoff board approves move to 5+7 model for start of 12-team format

New York Times

The College Football Playoff Board of Managers on Tuesday voted unanimously to revise the format of the 12-team event to include the five highest-ranked conference champions and seven at-large bids, finalizing an adjustment from the original “6+6” model. The original 6+6 model, which was first introduced nearly three years ago alongside the initial proposal to expand to 12 teams, awarded …

1 year ago

The dust is settling on college sports realignment. A look at where schools are going in 2024

Associated Press

1 year ago

AP Sports Story of the Year: Realignment, stunning demise of Pac-12 usher in super conference era

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The redrawing of the college sports map and demise of the Pac-12, a conference that claims the most NCAA championships and a legacy that includes the likes of Jackie Robinson, Bill Walton, Aaron Rodgers, Katie Ledecky, Tiger Woods and Cheryl Miller, made conference realignment The Associated …

1 year, 1 month ago

Big 12 has familiar look with four traditional members still in running for conference title game

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Soon-to-be-gone league stalwarts Texas and Oklahoma, as well as longtime members Oklahoma State and Kansas State, are all ranked in the Top 25 and remain in the running for spots in the Big 12 championship game on Dec. 2. The Big 12 champion will go to …

1 year, 1 month ago

College Football Playoff close to moving to 5+7 model for 12-team format starting in 2024: Source

New York Times

The Athletic has live coverage of the College Football Playoff rankings release. The College Football Playoff is close to adjusting its 12-team format next year and moving to a 5+7 model, with five automatic bids for conference champions, instead of the original 6+6. The CFP management committee, made up of the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack …

1 year, 1 month ago

Washington and Oregon on course for another clash before Pac-12 teams part ways in league breakup

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “It’s always been a case of you either poach someone for your conference — or you get poached.” There’s certainly been a lot of poaching, too, with Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado going to the Big 12. and you know that’s still not good enough …

1 year, 1 month ago

Big Ten 2024 football schedule: 10 thoughts on travel concerns, rivalry weekend and more

New York Times

There’s a numerical symmetry attached to the Big Ten’s 2024 football schedule, which was unveiled on Thursday afternoon. “Normally, we don’t get out of the late 20s or 30s when it comes to football schedules,” said Kerry Kenny, the Big Ten’s chief operating officer. “We felt like through the lens of both individual schedules, it was an equitable outcome in …

1 year, 1 month ago

Big 12 releases 4 years of football opponents for 16-team conference, with annual BYU-Utah game

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The Big 12 on Wednesday released four years of football opponents for its newly expanded 16-team conference, including a yearly BYU-Utah game and an emphasis on other in-state rivalries. “As we look towards the future of this Conference, we are thrilled to introduce the first football …

1 year, 1 month ago

ACC releases new football scheduling model to add California, Stanford and SMU in ’24

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The Atlantic Coast Conference has unveiled a new scheduling model to incorporate new members California, Stanford and SMU for next year, which includes those schools facing each other as annual opponents while staying with a no-division format. But travel miles will pile up: Stanford’s first ACC …

1 year, 2 months ago

Eight storylines to know as the 2023-24 men’s college basketball season nears tipoff

New York Times

Maybe you haven’t thought much about college basketball since the Final Four back in April. Purdue’s 7-foot-4 Zach Edey will try to do what Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe could not: become the first repeat national player of the year since Virginia’s Ralph Sampson three-peated in the early 1980s. GO DEEPER College basketball’s top 20 bigs for 2023-24: Zach Edey leads a …

1 year, 2 months ago

Pac-12 teams still interested in playing each other even as they go separate ways

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — The Pac-12 Conference is falling apart, but coaches are still interested in playing West Coast schools even as they go their separate ways. “I’m confident it will happen,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said Wednesday at Pac-12 basketball media day. “We’re going to have enough travel during conference going to the East Coast,” Altman said. “I’m not interested …

1 year, 2 months ago

Expanding Big Ten weighs competition, rivalries, TV ratings and road trips to make football schedule

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Weighing competitive balance, traditional rivalries, television ratings and some very long road trips, the Big Ten produced 262 versions of a football schedule to find the one that best fit its soon-to-be 18-team, bicoastal conference. Big Ten Chief Operating Officer Kerry Kenny said the conference wants …

1 year, 2 months ago

USC and UCLA’s Big Ten schedules won’t feature Oregon or Washington every season

LA Times

Big Ten officials had already completed the complex work of piecing together a new conference schedule including two new members when the conference added two more schools in early August. Adding Oregon and Washington a few months after USC and UCLA meant reconsidering how to handle scheduling within the Big Ten’s new West Coast enclave. But the four new Big …

1 year, 2 months ago

CFP puts off decisions on format tweaks with Pac-12 still in limbo, hears from potential TV partners

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The number of spots reserved for conference champions when the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams next year remained open for discussion Wednesday as administrators who manage the postseason wrapped up meetings that mostly focused on potential television partners. College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill …

1 year, 2 months ago

Big 12 announces 2023-24 basketball schedule: How it shapes up after conference realignment

New York Times

The Big 12 announced its 2023-24 basketball schedule Tuesday featuring the conference’s four new schools: Houston, BYU, Cincinnati and UCF. College basketball’s regular season begins Nov. 6, and Big 12 play opens on Jan. 6. The program also makes for a seamless fit in the Big 12’s Texas-focused footprint and should provide some stellar conference showdowns with home-and-homes against Kansas …

1 year, 3 months ago

The dust is settling on college sports realignment. A look at where schools are going in 2024

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 2023 : Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest. 2024 : Boston College, California, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, …

1 year, 3 months ago

ACC becomes latest super conference, expanding cross-country by adding Stanford, Cal and SMU

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “Joining the ACC will ensure the Power Conference competitive infrastructure and long-term media revenues that are critical for our student-athletes to compete.” For the ACC, adding three schools will increase media rights revenue from its long-term deal with ESPN and allow the conference to spread much …

1 year, 3 months ago

Texas coach Sarkisian says Yormark likely won’t get holiday invite before Big 12 exit

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! AUSTIN, Texas — Texas coach Steve Sarkisian figures Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark won’t be sitting down to break bread with the Longhorns this season, Texas’ last in the league. Sarkisian was asked Monday at his weekly news conference about Yormark’s recent comment telling Texas Tech …

1 year, 4 months ago

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark not hiding favoritism for teams staying in league

Associated Press

LUBBOCK, Texas — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark isn’t hiding his favoritism for teams that will be staying in the conference. Yormark said Wednesday that he plans to be at 11th-ranked Texas’ final regular-season game as a Big 12 member when it hosts Texas Tech the night after Thanksgiving. “Coach, I’m not going to put any pressure on you, but …

1 year, 4 months ago

Conference realignment reset: Where everyone stands as 2023 football season approaches

New York Times

The fallout from college sports’ frenzied summer of conference realignment has bled into the start of football season, and with Week 0 just days away, there are a few loose ends still to be settled after six Pac-12 schools jumped for the Big Ten and Big 12 within the span of a month. But that’s not our priority.” If the …

1 year, 4 months ago

Conference realignment shakes up recruiting landscape as Big Ten, Big 12, SEC widen footprints

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! With Southern California, UCLA, Washington and Oregon leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten next year, the sprawling conference will boast programs from the West Coast all the way to New Jersey. “If you were a kid in Arizona and you were a little hesitant to …

1 year, 4 months ago

Utah charts new course with Big 12 move

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! It ended where it was.” Utah will receive a full share of the $31.7 million each Big 12 school expects to earn from the league’s media deal starting in 2025. “I wouldn’t bet against the Big 12,” Utah President Taylor Randall said. “That’s what makes us …

1 year, 4 months ago

ACC considering westward expansion, with eye on Stanford and Cal, AP source says

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The four remaining Pac-12 schools still aboard for next season — California, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington State — have options if they are looking for another conference. The American Athletic Conference also has interest in expanding West and adding all four Pac-12 teams, a person …

1 year, 4 months ago

The Pac-12 Conference is facing a dire future following mass exodus of storied programs

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “To think even remotely five years ago the Pac-12 would be in this position, it’s unthinkable to think that we’re here today,” Washington State football coach Jake Dickert said. “We are disappointed with the recent decisions by some of our Pac-12 peers,” Washington State President Kirk …

1 year, 4 months ago

College sports realignment, always chaotic, gets another spin as Pac-12 dwindles

Associated Press

College sports in the U.S. has seen scores of schools change conference affiliation over the past century, but the pace has quickened over the past three decades. 2023 : Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest BIG TEN 1996 : Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan …

1 year, 4 months ago

Big Ten grabs Oregon, Washington; Big 12 completes Pac-12 raid with Arizona, Arizona State and Utah

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Dealing a crushing combination to the Pac-12 on Friday, the Big Ten announced Oregon and Washington would be joining the conference next August, and the Big 12 completed its raid of the beleaguered league by adding Arizona, Arizona State and Utah. The Big Ten a short …

1 year, 4 months ago

Arizona, Arizona State, Utah to leave Pac-12 for Big 12

New York Times

Arizona, Arizona State and Utah are officially heading to the Big 12. The Athletic reported earlier Friday that the three schools formally applied for membership to the Big 12, and the conference’s board of presidents and chancellors were expected to accept the three new members. The three schools will join Colorado in becoming Big 12 members in 2024 at the …

1 year, 4 months ago

Oregon, Washington to join Big Ten in 2024 as Pac-12 stumbles further

New York Times

The Big Ten officially approved Oregon and Washington as new members, with competition to begin in all sports in 2024-25, the conference announced Friday. Afterward, the Big Ten presidents and chancellors met, and the group eventually agreed to offer official invitations to Oregon and Washington — to become the league’s 17th and 18th members. The additions come barely 14 months …

1 year, 4 months ago

Pac-12 being pushed to brink as Big Ten joins Big 12 in honing in on West Coast schools

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The boards of regents for Arizona’s two biggest universities, along with the University of Washington, had special meetings Thursday night, ramping up speculation that more Pac-12 schools could leave the flailing conference. That payout would be about half what current Big Ten members will receive when …

1 year, 4 months ago

Conference realignment 2023: Timeline of college football rumors, moves and what’s next

New York Times

Since Colorado announced its departure from the Pac-12 for the Big 12 one week ago, myriad other potential realignment moves have surfaced. GO DEEPER Vannini: Losing Colorado is a blow, but Pac-12's future will depend on Arizona schools Aug. 1: Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff presented a new media rights deal to his league’s board and athletic directors. McCullough called the …

1 year, 4 months ago

Can the Pac-12 survive? Conference of champions faces murky future after Colorado bolts for Big 12

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Colorado’s announcement Thursday that it will return to the Big 12 comes a little more than a year after Southern California and UCLA said they were ditching the Pac-12 to join the Big Ten. “We are focused on concluding our media rights deal and securing our …

1 year, 4 months ago

Colorado leaving Pac-12 and returning to Big 12 in 2024 following unanimous vote by board of regents

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado is leaving the Pac-12 to return to the conference the Buffaloes jilted a dozen years ago, and the Big 12 celebrated the reunion with a two-word statement released through Commissioner Brett Yomark: “They’re back.” “The landscape of collegiate sports is ever-evolving, and …

1 year, 4 months ago

Colorado plans to join Big 12 in 2024: What’s next for the Pac-12, conference realignment?

New York Times

The Athletic has live coverage of Colorado’s move to the Big 12. The school would officially become a Big 12 member in the summer of 2024 at the conclusion of the Pac-12’s current media rights deal. pic.twitter.com/UtGgY5WnTf — Big 12 Conference July 27, 2023 The yearlong courtship with Colorado played out while the Pac-12 and its commissioner, George Kliavkoff, attempted …

1 year, 5 months ago

Predicting conference realignment’s unpredictable future: 5 scenarios for 2033 and beyond

New York Times

Four years ago, The Athletic admirably — and, as it turns out, foolishly — attempted to predict the future of college sports when my colleague Stewart Mandel took a stab at what the conference landscape would look like five or 10 years into the future. “But I also know that the SEC can’t sit still and allow the Big Ten …

1 year, 6 months ago

USC, UCLA will face Michigan during their first season in Big Ten

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Southern California and UCLA will both face Michigan during their first season as members of the Big Ten Conference in 2024. USC and UCLA both announced last year that they were leaving the Pac-12 Conference to join the Big Ten. For its first two seasons in the Big Ten, USC will have home-and-home series against Penn State …

1 year, 6 months ago

Big Ten football won’t come with scheduled success for USC, UCLA in debut season

LA Times

USC coach Lincoln Riley directs pregame warmups before a win over Fresno State on Sept. 17. UCLA’s first Big Ten schedule will include Ohio State, Northwestern, Nebraska, Minnesota and USC at the Rose Bowl in addition to road games against Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and Rutgers. “That said, it’s exciting to see the future conference matchups fans will get to experience …

1 year, 6 months ago

SEC to play 8-game conference football schedule in 2024; long-term model still TBD

Associated Press

DESTIN, Fla. — The Southeastern Conference will play eight league games in 2024 when it expands to 16 teams with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas, but beyond that the schedule model is still to be determined. Commissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday, the second-to-last day of the SEC’s spring meetings, that the conference’s university presidents unanimously voted to implement a …

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