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(08-28-2019 10:49 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(08-28-2019 08:12 PM)bearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  

(08-28-2019 07:53 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(08-28-2019 11:16 AM)bearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  

(08-28-2019 11:04 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  With this announcement, the conference is clearly signaling that they're going to do everything in their power to get a team in the NY6 every year...pitting UCF. USF, Cincinnati, Houston, and Memphis against each other every year goes directly against that.

No it doesn’t. Those are quality wins for those teams. TV also demands quality games. They don’t want Cincinnati-Tulsa instead of Cincinnati-UCF.

If you want your champion to make the NY6 every year, you want to maximize their chance to go undefeated...putting all the best teams against each other every year with no break would be completely antithetical to that.

Scheduling ranked teams against each helps with rankings and TV ratings. Outside of Boise State there isn’t a single team out there that plays aschedule needed and consistently wins to be a threat to steal that spot anyway.

The conference needs to schedule the best games possible and let the two best teams play for the championship at the end of the year. Remember how crappy it was to skip UCF the first two years of conference play. That really worked out for UC didn’t it.

Not saying it wouldnt suck from our perspective, but that doesnt matter. It worked out for the conference...which is who makes the decisions. If our goal is to be the 6th "power" conference, we need to completely lock down that NY6 bowl spot every year. Having all of the good teams play each other would increase the chance that our champion has multiple losses, which would decrease the chance to make that game. That is literally all that matters to a conference that just locked up a TV deal for 8 years.

I agree with you argument, but the drawback of avoiding those matchups is the conference loses out on the games that would likely have the best viewership numbers. This would likely have a negative effect on the next TV deal.