Big 12 Football 2015

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With spring practice under way it's time to start thinking seriously about next season. The OU quarterback situation is always a good place to start.

Oklahoma football: Baker Mayfield making quite an impression | NewsOK.com

[okatty]

OU QB position will be interesting to watch. I heard the local radio "experts" giving their predictions on next season. OU predicted in the 9-3 or even 8-4 area. OSU was picked 9-3 or 10-2 with a favorable schedule and the tough games in Stillwater.

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Baylor, TCU will keep commanding Big 12's spotlight - Big 12 Blog - ESPN

[Jersey Boss]

Preseason coaches poll.

1. Ohio State
2. TCU
3. Alabama
4. Baylor
5. Oregon
6. Michigan State
7. Auburn
8. Florida State
9. Georgia
10. USC
11. Notre Dame
12. Clemson
13. LSU
14. UCLA
15. Ole Miss
16. Arizona State
17. Georgia Tech
18. Wisconsin
19. Oklahoma
20. Arkansas
21. Stanford
22. Arizona
23. Missouri
24. Boise State
25. Tennessee

The Amway Board of Coaches is made up of 64 head coaches at Bowl Subdivision schools. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. The board for the 2015 season: Dino Babers, Bowling Green; David Bailiff, Rice; Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Craig Bohl, Wyoming; Terry Bowden, Akron; Art Briles, Baylor; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Matt Campbell, Toledo; Rod Carey, Northern Illinois; Norm Chow, Hawaii; Paul Chryst, Wisconsin; Larry Coker, Texas-San Antonio; David Cutcliffe, Duke; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Tim DeRuyter, Fresno State; Bob Diaco, Connecticut; Larry Fedora, North Carolina; Jimbo Fisher, Florida State; Kyle Flood, Rutgers; Dennis Franchione, Texas State; James Franklin, Penn State; Willie Fritz, Georgia Southern; Al Golden, Miami; Todd Graham, Arizona State; Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State; Jim Harbaugh, Michigan; Mark Helfrich, Oregon; Doc Holliday, Marshall; Mark Hudspeth, Louisiana-Lafayette; Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech; Joey Jones, South Alabama; Brian Kelly, Notre Dame; Brad Lambert, Charlotte; Lance Leipold, Buffalo; Rocky Long, San Diego State; Mike MacIntyre, Colorado; Gus Malzahn, Auburn; Doug Martin, New Mexico State; Dan McCarney, North Texas; Ruffin McNeill, East Carolina; Bronco Mendenhall, Brigham Young; Urban Meyer, Ohio State; Les Miles, LSU; Phillip Montgomery, Tulsa; Jim Mora, UCLA; Ken Niumatalolo, Navy; George O'Leary, Central Florida; Gary Patterson, TCU; Chris Petersen, Washington; Paul Petrino, Idaho; Gary Pinkel, Missouri; Paul Rhoads, Iowa State; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Nebraska; Nick Saban, Alabama; Frank Solich, Ohio; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee State; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M; Dabo Swinney, Clemson; Tommy Tuberville, Cincinnati; Matt Wells, Utah State; Kyle Whittingham, Utah

[zookeeper]

The Big 12 is lucky to have some great coaches. Media Days showed Patterson and Briles as personable (even funny) but serious and down to business when the rubber meets the road. Both worthy of their team's top 5 rankings.

[mugofbeer]

I still have to shake my head and laugh to think that Baylor and TCU are ranked in the national top 5 and are the only ranked Texas teams. You'd have been institutionalized if you*d said that 10 years ago.

[zookeeper]

I still have to shake my head and laugh to think that Baylor and TCU are ranked in the national top 5 and are the only ranked Texas teams. You'd have been institutionalized if you*d said that 10 years ago.

You are right about that!

[okatty]

Expansion talks just keep coming up. None of these teams does a lot for me - BYU maybe but after that?

Dick Harmon: Big 12 expansion talk (ahem, BYU) a fun, cool topic this July | Deseret News

[OKCretro]

Hoping that tcu or Baylor get snubbed again from the playoff so OU can leave this joke of a conference

[Jersey Boss]

Expansion talks just keep coming up. None of these teams does a lot for me - BYU maybe but after that?

Dick Harmon: Big 12 expansion talk (ahem, BYU) a fun, cool topic this July | Deseret News

These teams would expand the B12 into the ranks of being a mid-major.

[zookeeper]

Two five team divisions and a championship game would make a big difference. Well, as big a difference as can be made in this conference. But they seem back and forth on that, which in itself looks bad. I think the biggest problem is that it's obvious everything has to be run by UT and if it doesn't sit right with them and their money with the Longhorn Network it gets shot down.

[Zuplar]

I really think the Big12 is just going to go away once OU is poached away. I don't see this conference surviving long term.

[Jersey Boss]

I really think the Big12 is just going to go away once OU is poached away. I don't see this conference surviving long term.

Hopefully this does not happen until Boren is no longer around and the SEC becomes the landing zone.

[Zuplar]

Hopefully this does not happen until Boren is no longer around and the SEC becomes the landing zone.

Yeah I really think that the SEC and the Big10 are the only options OU would consider. Wouldn't be surprised if they were leaning to the latter.

[Jersey Boss]

Yeah I really think that the SEC and the Big10 are the only options OU would consider. Wouldn't be surprised if they were leaning to the latter.

Because OU is not an AAU school, the Big 10 would not entertain having them. BTW the Daily Disappointment had a good article on the Big 10 today contrasting it with the Big 12.
Big Ten's new scheduling model further cripples Big 12's status | News OK

[adaniel]

I've always thought OU would want to go west in the PAC 12. We would almost certainly have to go with UT, among others.

I agree though, outside of a major poach/get of at least two schools or some pretty drastic scheduling changes, the Big 12 is going to slowly die on the vine.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Big 12 eventually merged with a depleted ACC.

[OKCretro]

Because OU is not an AAU school, the Big 10 would not entertain having them. BTW the Daily Disappointment had a good article on the Big 10 today contrasting it with the Big 12.
Big Ten's new scheduling model further cripples Big 12's status | News OK

Is that a fact that the BIG 10 wouldn't take them b/c of non AAU status or just your opinion. I don't think Iowa or Nebraska are AAU schools

[Pete]

Iowa is but Nebraska isn't.

[gopokes88]

Iowa is but Nebraska isn't.

Nebraska was.
Nebraska loses AAU status - Big Ten Blog - ESPN

OU and OSU are going to the SEC eventually to form this beast of a conference especially if they go pod system.

OU
OSU
Arky
aTm

LSU
Bama
Auburn
Mizzou

Ole Miss
Miss St
Vandy
Kentuky

Florida
Georgia
USC
Tenn

Play the 3 in your pod and 2 from the remaining. 9 conference games. Rotate the teams in the other pods each year. (ie ou plays lsu bama, then auburn mizzou next year) So you'll play everyone in 2 years. Rotate home and away. You will have played the entire conference both home and away every 4 years.

The SEC championship is 2 rounds. Pod seed #1 vs #4. Pod seed #2 vs. #3.

What a glorious conference that would be.

[SOONER8693]

The best thing for OU in this mess, is to divorce themselves from osu as quickly as possible. Everybody sees it but DBo. He will always have a hardon for osu.

[Pete]

The best thing for OU in this mess, is to divorce themselves from osu as quickly as possible. Everybody sees it but DBo. He will always have a hardon for osu.

Because Boren knows he needs state assistance (funding, tuition increase requests) and divorcing from OSU would be politically unpopular.

[Martin]

Iowa is but Nebraska isn't.

you're right, but nebraska was in the aau at the time they were inducted into the big10. -M

//edit: oops, looks like that was already covered. serves me right for opening a billion tabs at once.

[OKCretro]

Because Boren knows he needs state assistance (funding, tuition increase requests) and divorcing from OSU would be politically unpopular.

I agree to a point. But if Boren or the next OU president can show he tried his best to bring along osu for the ride, I think he will get a pass. Other states have the top schools in different conference such as Iowa , Colorado, Utah.

Why does OU need to help osu? Why can't osu get a bid on their own merits?

[ljbab728]

I agree to a point. But if Boren or the next OU president can show he tried his best to bring along osu for the ride, I think he will get a pass. Other states have the top schools in different conference such as Iowa , Colorado, Utah.

Why does OU need to help osu? Why can't osu get a bid on their own merits?

Are you seriously asking that knowing the caliber of our state legislature?

[ultimatesooner]

These teams would expand the B12 into the ranks of being a mid-major.

the big "12" has been a mid major since the effed up in the conference realignment games in 2010

David Boren not letting OU leave then will go down as one of the biggest mistakes in OUs and the state of OKs history