B1G Title game / NCAA vote Big12

[CinciBlue]

So, an interesting takeaway from that vote yesterday to allow leagues to have a conf champ game with 1) less than 12 teams and 2) no division requirement.

It's #2 that I find interesting.

The B1G was against this by all accounts leading up to the vote, and it passed handily, Not surprising that the butthurt Pac12 and mAAC voted against it for obvious reasons. That said, this seems to leave the door open for the B1G and any league to just have divisions for scheduling, and not requiring the winner of each division to play in the champ game.

I'm not sure how that would look and feel necessarily, but the door seems to be open should the B1G want to explore it to rectify the "stacked" division situation that exists today, and just make it the top 2 teams in the league play.

 

[detroitjohn]

I don't see them going that direction, I hate the setup in basketball.

 

[CinciBlue]

I don't see them going that direction, I hate the setup in basketball.

The basketball is pretty bad. I was looking at different schedules, and it is atrocious.

Indiana has one of the easiest B1G schedules i have ever seen.

 

[St. Joe Blue 3]

Weird stuff happens.

 

[St. Joe Blue 3]

Weird stuff happens.

 

[michnittlion]

So, an interesting takeaway from that vote yesterday to allow leagues to have a conf champ game with 1) less than 12 teams and 2) no division requirement.

It's #2 that I find interesting.

The B1G was against this by all accounts leading up to the vote, and it passed handily, Not surprising that the butthurt Pac12 and mAAC voted against it for obvious reasons. That said, this seems to leave the door open for the B1G and any league to just have divisions for scheduling, and not requiring the winner of each division to play in the champ game.

I'm not sure how that would look and feel necessarily, but the door seems to be open should the B1G want to explore it to rectify the "stacked" division situation that exists today, and just make it the top 2 teams in the league play.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that your interpretation is not correct.

As I read it ----- you can have a championship game with no division requirement if and only if you play a FULL round-robin among all the schools. If you don't do this, you can have a championship game if and only if you have two divisions (no longer a minimum of 12 teams in aggregate).

Obviously, a full round-robin among all 14 schools (13 games) isn't happening. So, the B1G can't have a championship game unless there are divisions.

 

[12375CAT]

Since when do we need a B12 championship game?