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Title: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: bama57 on November 18, 2015, 04:13:14 PM Quote Bielema, who is in his third year at Arkansas after spending eight seasons as Wisconsin's head coach, proposed the idea of a "Big Ten vs. SEC Challenge," similar to what college basketball does now with the "Big 12/SEC Challenge." Bielema's concept would consist of ranking all 14 teams in both conferences during the preseason and matching them with their respective nonconference counterpart for a game that season. http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14163970/bret-bielema-arkansas-razorbacks-coach-proposes-big-ten-sec-football-challenge"Let the best of the best play each other, and maybe the lower ones play each other week-in and week-out," Bielema said on Wednesday's SEC coaches teleconference. "Just reserve a week every year, it would be kind of a fun thing. People would get into that now. I've been in both leagues, and I have the utmost respect for both. It would be something kind of fun if you could just reserve that and that might eliminate the whole need for an FCS [team]. Then you schedule three other opponents that are FBS and go." Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: N.AL-Tider on November 18, 2015, 04:25:39 PM So he wants the best and the worst of both conferences to play each other? The Big Ten only has about 3 or 4 "good" teams and the SEC only has so many teams that would be ranked = to the other Big Ten teams... So that would pit Vandy and UK playing how many Big Ten teams? ???
Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: 2Stater on November 18, 2015, 04:27:43 PM So he wants the best and the worst of both conferences to play each other? The Big Ten only has about 3 or 4 "good" teams and the SEC only has so many teams that would be ranked = to the other Big Ten teams... So that would pit Vandy and UK playing how many Big Ten teams? ??? All of them. :D Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: bama57 on November 18, 2015, 04:48:46 PM So he wants the best and the worst of both conferences to play each other? The Big Ten only has about 3 or 4 "good" teams and the SEC only has so many teams that would be ranked = to the other Big Ten teams... So that would pit Vandy and UK playing how many Big Ten teams? ??? All of them. :D Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: Jamos on November 18, 2015, 05:12:52 PM So he wants the best and the worst of both conferences to play each other? The Big Ten only has about 3 or 4 "good" teams and the SEC only has so many teams that would be ranked = to the other Big Ten teams... So that would pit Vandy and UK playing how many Big Ten teams? ??? All of them. :D Exactly :lol: Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: ricky023 on November 18, 2015, 10:01:22 PM So he has come to the SEC and he now knows the SEC would beat the Big Ten and settle the argument. RTR!
Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: SUPERCOACH on November 18, 2015, 11:52:24 PM I approve of this idea. That is all.
Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: bamaphil on November 19, 2015, 04:16:57 AM A thought that just came to me...
We go back to an 11 game regular season, but introduce pre-season "bowl games". Marquee programs can matchup against each other the week before the season officially starts in a game that doesn't count towards the win-loss record. Everybody wins: 1) $$$$ for everyone involved 2) Fans get to see great matchups 3) Top teams get to play each other and find out how good they are/what they need to improve from the beginning of the year 4) Championship caliber teams get to play championship caliber teams without the threat of a loss leaving them with no room for error the rest of the way Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: N.AL-Tider on November 19, 2015, 05:08:12 AM A thought that just came to me... I don't think that would work and here's why... Many of the sportswriters would not be able to separate the "pre-season" from the regular season games and definitely WOULD hold a loss against a team regardless. That loss would come back to bite a team no matter what. Also, given those criteria, Awbren would have likely played a pretty good team this year but look how well they have performed in the season...We go back to an 11 game regular season, but introduce pre-season "bowl games". Marquee programs can matchup against each other the week before the season officially starts in a game that doesn't count towards the win-loss record. Everybody wins: 1) $$$$ for everyone involved 2) Fans get to see great matchups 3) Top teams get to play each other and find out how good they are/what they need to improve from the beginning of the year 4) Championship caliber teams get to play championship caliber teams without the threat of a loss leaving them with no room for error the rest of the way Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: Chechem on November 19, 2015, 05:16:46 AM Do we have to let the Aubs play?
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UTCeCa-WbI0/Vkzh9PAsCMI/AAAAAAAAdXk/75A1TpW2CK0/w200-h479-no/FB_IMG_1447860215601.jpg) Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: 2Stater on November 19, 2015, 06:41:59 AM Do we have to let the Aubs play? (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UTCeCa-WbI0/Vkzh9PAsCMI/AAAAAAAAdXk/75A1TpW2CK0/w200-h479-no/FB_IMG_1447860215601.jpg) :lol: :lol: Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: Catch Prothro on November 19, 2015, 06:48:27 AM The idea is OK for the lower ranked teams. But it is a losing scenario for the top ranked teams (Bama/OSU) to play each other early in the season. Better for them to make the playoffs and meet there. (No way Urban Meyer plays Bama in week 1).
Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: Chechem on November 19, 2015, 06:50:02 AM The idea is OK for the lower ranked teams. But it is a losing scenario for the top ranked teams (Bama/OSU) to play each other early in the season. Better for them to make the playoffs and meet there. (No way Urban Meyer plays Bama 8) Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: bamaphil on November 19, 2015, 07:30:02 AM I'm not sure how long five power conferences are going to agree to competing for four playoff spots. I think it's almost inevitable that we eventually end up with four 16 team superconferences that either separate from the NCAA or form a new division and only play each other. Nine conference games, one game against a team from the other three conferences determined each year by previous year's performance, a conference championship and the four conference champions are the four playoff teams.
Title: Re: Arkansas' Bret Bielema proposes Big Ten/SEC football challenge Post by: SUPERCOACH on November 19, 2015, 08:10:35 AM Do we have to let the Aubs play? (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UTCeCa-WbI0/Vkzh9PAsCMI/AAAAAAAAdXk/75A1TpW2CK0/w200-h479-no/FB_IMG_1447860215601.jpg) :lol2: :clap: |