Big 12 announces Strength of Schedule Requirement

Then there are the likes of Kansas, with just three Power five teams on future schedules through the 2024 season, and the team that many are naming this directive after, Baylor.

The conference announced Wednesday it is implementing a non-conference scheduling requirement for its teams.

The Bears, and the rest of the league, will have to start scheduling power conference teams every year.

If the Big 12 does decide to implement a conference championship, and if the Big Ten’s amendment passes, expect a new conference realignment, SB Nation reported.

The Big 12 title game was usually the best of the bunch. ‘This move will strengthen the resumes for all Big 12 teams. “We don’t think we ought to be forced into that sort of thing”. The only game scheduled is at Army.

Additionally, no Big 12 program is permitted to play more than one game annually against a non-Football Bowl Subdivision opponent.

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said that is certainly not the intent. On the other hand, I want to have some familiarity – some knowledge as to how these things are going to play out.

“We don’t think he should have to expand to have the same option we have, but we feel he should have a structure similar to ours”.

However, the Sooners reached the playoff this season and didn’t have to worry about potentially losing at the end like fellow playoff teams Alabama, Clemson and Michigan State did.

The 10 FBS members on the NCAA council will hold voting on this measure at the NCAA Convention on January 13-16 in San Antonio. The reasons? A desire to play a conference championship game and some intervention from the Big Ten. TCU and Texas have future Power Five games scheduled from 2016-24, while Iowa State and Kansas State have teams from the power conferences scheduled each year from 2016-23 and 2016-21, respectively.