THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"For either one of these teams, it's not really a great scenario," Saban said on a conference call Sunday. "You play your way into the championship game, which means you're the best team in your division. They're the best team in their division. They played their way into the game by a total body of work for the whole season. It doesn't seem quite right, but it is what it is."
Nick Saban, on each team's BCS fate if they lose this game
Alabama is 3-4 all-time in SEC Championship Games.
Q: What team did Georgia defeat to claim the 1980 AP title?
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
A: Georgia defeated Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.
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THE MORNING BREW Championship games keep football excitement alive for fans
College football excitement continues this weekend. Although the
Although the matchup for the BCS National Championship Game is almost set in stone with Notre Dame playing either Alabama or Georgia, there's still college football to be played. For fans who hate Notre Dame and root for teams that have already been eliminated from BCS Championship contention, don't fret. There's plenty of exciting college football for you to watch this weekend.
Kansas is also playing West Virginia this weekend, so there that's to look forward to.
SEC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia will be competing in the Southeast Conference Championship Game on Saturday in the Georgia Dome. This year's SEC title game is captivating because of its role as a de facto semifinal game to play in the BCS Championship. The winner of this game will obtain two remarkable distinctions: the champion of the best conference in the country and the second team in the national championship game. With two talented, top-five teams competing against one another at a neutral site, it doesn't get
much more exciting than this in the regular season.
PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
This year's Pac-12 Championship game is exciting because two teams expected to be in the game, Oregon and USC, are absent. Instead, No. 8 Stanford and No. 16 UCLA will be competing for the Pac-12 title and a berth in the Rose Bowl. In a rare scheduling quirk, these two teams will be facing each this Friday after also playing against each other at UCLA last Saturday. UCLA is looking to bounce back against the Cardinal after being defeated 35-17 in the teams' last meeting.
BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
No. 12 Nebraska and unranked Wisconsin will face off on Saturday in the Big Ten Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Wis. The conference's representative in the last two Rose Bowls has had a bit of a down year going 7-5. The ineligibility of Ohio State and Penn State also helped Wisconsin secure a spot in the championship game. Nebraska showed stark improvement in the team's second season in the conference, going 10-2 and earning an opportunity to win the school's first conference championship since its Big 12 title in 1999.
TEXAS AT KANSAS STATE
In an interesting non-championship game matchup, the Texas Longhorns will travel to Manhattan in hopes of spoiling K-State's chances at its first Big 12 Championship since 2003. The Wildcats are looking to respond after a 52-24 loss to Baylor knocked them out of the running to play for the national title. Texas is looking to rebound from a disappointing Thanksgiving weekend loss to an undermanned TCU team.
OKLAHOMA AT TCU
If Texas can upset K-State, a win by Oklahoma over TCU would enable the Sooners to represent the Big 12 in the BCS, most likely at the Fiesta Bowl. A K-State win would eliminate Oklahoma's opportunity to earn an at-large bid in the BCS, but look for Oklahoma to come out inspired after last week's emotional overtime win over rival Oklahoma State.
This week in athletics
— Edited by Luke Ranker
Wednesday
Thursday
Women's Basketball
Grambling State
7 p.m.
Lawrence
Friday
No events scheduled
Volleyball
Cleveland State
6.30 p.m.
Lawrence
Men's Basketball
Oregon State
7 p.m.
Kansas City, Mo.
Saturday
Football
West Virginia
1:30 p.m.
Morgantown, W. Va.
Sunday
Monday
Williams Education Fund
Kansas City Roundball Luncheon
11.30 a.m.
Kansas City Downtown Marriott
Tuesday No events scheduled
FOOTBALL
Conference realignment may produce Big 12 championship game
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MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State coach Bill Snyder still believes the Big 12 should ultimately expand to at least 12 teams, creating two divisions and a conference championship game.
Snyder said Tuesday that "there are a number of programs in our conference who have and would profit from that type of system," pointing out that teams with multiple losses would generate more interest late in the season by still having a chance to play for a championship.
"You walk out here and you walk through the lobby and you see a trophy case here, and if we didn't have divisions that would probably be a single trophy case," Snyder said. "We had a chance to play for division championships, and then conference championships, and that was positive."
The 73-year-old Snyder has seen the Big 12 go through a dramatic series of changes since he took over the once-downtradden Kansas State program in the late 1980s.
When the old Southwest Conference disintegrated, the Big Eight expanded by four teams to become the Big 12, and played a
conference title game every year from 1996-2010.
The game has cut both ways for the Wildcats: They were in position to play for a national championship in 1998 before losing to Texas A&M in double-overtime, but managed to win the Big 12 title and earn a Fiesta Bowl berth in 2003 by upsetting then-No. 1 Oklahoma.
The league has undergone even more change the past couple of years, with longtime member Colorado leaving for the Pac-12 and Nebraska heading to the Big Ten, and with Missouri and Texas A&M joining the Southeastern
Conference beginning this season.
The league picked up West Virginia and TCU to remain at 10 teams, and locked up broadcast rights to stabilize a league not long ago on the brink of extinction.
Maryland is leaving the ACC and Rutgers the Big East to establish a 14-taiem Big Ten, while Tulane announced Tuesday it would join the Big East, with East Carolina joining as a football-only member.
That's left the Big 12 in a precarious position: Stand pat with 10 teams or expand to 12 or more,
thereby re-establishing its lucrative conference championship game.
"You look at the North Division," Snyder said, referring to the old six-team division of the Big 12. "I would suggest there are probably four schools that profited by that system. It gave teams opportunities. When I first came back, we were 6-6, not a very good team, but the last game of the season we were playing for a division championship. That has some meaning."
It provides some drama, too.
Rather than playing a single winner-take-all game on Saturday, two games will be played with title implications: TCU plays No. 12
Oklahoma early in the day before the Wildcats finish up the regular season against No. 23 Texas at night.
TCU can essentially make Kansas State's game irrelevant by beating the Sooners, because the Wildcats would be assured of at least a share of the title and, through tiebreakers, the league's automatic BCS bowl berth.
And if the Sooners and Wildcats both win, they'll share the trophy.
"I don't know that K-State's game is irrelevant. That's a bit strong." Kansas State athletic director John Currie told The Associated Press.
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