Fuck anyone saying we should play SMU, TCU, Baylor, or Houston.
Rice and Tech are the only ones that make any sense from the old SWC schools. We don’t need a 2nd game in DFW, the TX/OU game is bigger than anything outside of a Dallas Cowboys game. If Houston hadn’t fucked us over with Bleachergate they’d probably have made the list too.
The ONLY way I would consider an annual game with Tech is if we played 1 out of 2 Tech/B12 home games in NRG.
at Austin
at Lubbock
at Austin
at Houston
repeat
Securing a game in Houston once every 4 years and only having to travel to Lubbock once every 4 years might make this work. But I think Tech has too much “pride” to accept those terms even though it would probably work out in their favor.
Since they killed their neutral site game with Baylor in DFW, they could make it work in years when they play UH in Lubbock. Both schools could benefit from playing in the city of Houston and Tech could take in extra ticket/suite sales since NRG has 10k more seats that Tech’s stadium and since it would be neutral site outside of the home ticket package. A bonus would be that the Big 12 would benefit from having a Texas game on their network lineup every other year.
The Big 12 should focus on long term rivalry deals like this and Oklahoma/Okie St, Kansas/Mizzou, BYU/Utah, Iowa/ISU, TCU/SMU, Houston/Rice, WVU/Pitt, UCF/USF, Cincy/Memphis, Baylor/Wake Forest to give the networks some guaranteed OOC inventory and boost their TV deal.