(02-25-2012 05:34 PM)Old Dominion Navy Wrote:  

(02-25-2012 05:29 PM)He1nousOne Wrote:  

(02-25-2012 05:23 PM)Old Dominion Navy Wrote:  

(02-25-2012 04:50 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  How would y'all align the B12 divisions if BYU and Louisville are entering in 13?

Mine looks a lil somethin like this:

Texas------Oklahoma
BYU--------TCU
Tech-------Baylor
Kansas-----Kansas St
Louisville---WVU
Iowa St----Oklahoma State

Its a nice clean zipper alignment that keeps almost all of the rivalries intact.

I would switch TCU and Tech. Baylor would be a better rivalry for TCU then BYU.

Moving Tech to the other side makes their yearly match up with Texas a not so yearly match up. We have seen that Tech and Texas are tied at the hip. Texas may tell TCU what to do but they were willing to take Tech with them. I think you have to assume Tech and Texas will end up in the same division in order to preserve that match up that is not quite at premier rivalry but is still important to Texas.

Having TCU in the same division as Baylor maintains that rivalry while allowing Baylor to have an instate rival with Tech from the opposing division as well as allowing TCU and BYU to turn an old MWC match up into a B12 rivalry.

Basically the Texas/Texas Tech relationship keeps them in the same division.

I see what your saying, makes sense.

Yea... that's partly the reason why I kept Tech with Texas and OSU with Oklahoma. And then I felt that BYU made far more sense in Texas's division than Oklahoma's. Then I felt that Baylor and Tech made sense as set rivals. Everything else just fell into place.