BIG 12 AND SEC PLAY EACH OTHER
 

The inaugural Big 12/SEC Challenge was announced Tuesday with a schedule of 10 men’s basketball games to be played this fall.

All 10 of the Big 12’s teams and 10 of the SEC’s 14 schools will play in the annual event, which will be called the SEC/Big 12 Challenge in 2014. Arkansas, Georgia, LSU and Tennessee will not play in the first year. ESPN will broadcast all 10 games across its networks. Times and TV channels will be announced later.
Eight of the 10 games this year will be played at home sites — including KU at Florida, which was previously announced, West Virginia at Missouri and Mississippi at Kansas State. The other two matchups will be played at neutral sites.
Saturday, November 14
• Texas Tech at Alabama
Monday, December 2
• Vanderbilt at Texas
• Auburn at Iowa State
Thursday, December 5
• West Virginia at Missouri
• Mississippi at Kansas State
• TCU at Mississippi State
Friday, December 6
• South Carolina at Oklahoma State
• Kentucky vs. Baylor at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas
Tuesday, December 10
• Kansas at Florida
Saturday, December 21
• Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma in Houston

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/14...#storylink=cpy

Heh, WVU versus Missouri in the "yes, we're technically in the Big XII and SEC" game.

Looks good!

Funny that there are so many intriguing potential matchups that aren't happening.

KU/MU
KSU or WVU/SC
OSU/UK
Texas/aTm

These would all be interesting matchups. Really, the KU/UF game is the only one that will have much appeal.

:D nice

Those will happen eventually.

KU-MU is appealing locally in Kansas City but nobody around the country follows it, the FLA game will be a better draw for ESPN. I don't see why ISU or KSU isn't playing MU though since that would be interesting regionally. Not sure what the appeal of KSU-So Carolina would be since they suck under Martin anyway.

KU / MU has national appeal. The games in MU's last year in the Big 12 had huge national ratings.

In fact these conferences need to jump on the popularity of college basketball right now. The ratings for TV are huge, just look...


10 Highest Rated College Sports Telecasts

2012-13 academic year

# Date Sport Winner Loser Event Net Rating

1 Mon., 1/7/13 Football Alabama Notre Dame Champ. Gm. ESPN
15.1

2 Mon., 4/8/13 Basketball Louisville Michigan Champ. Gm. CBS
14.0

3 Sat., 4/6/13 Basketball Michigan Syracuse Final Four CBS
10.2

4 Sat., 12/1/12 Football Alabama Georgia SEC Champ. CBS
9.8

T5 Tue., 1/1/13 Football Stanford Wisconsin Rose Bowl ESPN
9.4

T5 Sat., 11/24/12 Football Notre Dame Southern Cal Reg. Season ABC
9.4

7 Sun., 3/31/13 Basketball Louisville Duke Elite Eight CBS
8.8

8 Sat., 4/6/13 Basketball Louisville Wichita St. Final Four CBS
8.7

9 Thu., 1/3/13 Football Oregon Kansas St. Fiesta Bowl ESPN
7.4

10 Fri., 1/4/13 Football Texas A&M Oklahoma Cotton Bowl FOX
7.2

The problem is that people don't care about it outside the tournament. The highest rated non-NCAA tournament game drew a 2.9. In football, the highest rated non-bowl game drew a 9.8.

Why? I'll feel slimy.

Beakers still dodging us. Figures

Why? Anything a conference can do to align themselves with the SEC lends that conference credibility.

They'll never let the game happen

:)