Personally, I think the SEC approach (10 conference only games in eleven weeks) was a very poor decision. The Big XII had a much better approach with nine conference games and any school could also schedule a non-conference games as long as it was prior to Sep 26. That could make their records look better than many teams in the SEC...were the average has to be 5-5. In many of the lower conferences, teams are free to schedule whatever games they can around their conference games. At least one school, North Dakota State, only has one game on the current schedule. Many others have 9 to 11 games. Some play the same opponent both home and away. When the SEC went to the ten game schedule with no non-conference games, they really stuck it to Vanderbilt, Mizzou, and Arkansas. Most of the other teams could survive at 6-4 to 4-6; however, the three cited above should struggle just to get to three wins. For Mizzou, that is terrible since the original schedule (if the team would focus on football) was set up for 7-5, or better. Huge difference between 7-5 and 3-7, at best.
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