So to preface this, it's appearing very unlikely this bill gets passed into law as is or even at all right now. Further, the mandate only applies to teams in conferences who choose to pool their media rights and the SEC and B1G have both laughed at this.
But theoretically if the original version had been forced on to us, the section requiring mandated rivalry scheduling is wild in what it would have done to our OOC scheduling due to our history.
It said that to qualify, if more than 2 of your all time Top 10 opponents are no longer in your conference, then you become subject to the Federal Rules. 7 of our Top 10 are not in our conference so we would have triggered it.
For those wondering our "separated opponents Top 10 opponents" would be:
2 Baylor (108 meetings)
3 TCU (92 meetings)
5 Rice (82 meetings)
6 SMU (73 meetings)
7 TTU (70 meetings)
9 UH (33 meetings)
10 Okie Lite (31 meetings ((yeah I was surprised too at this))
Having done so, the law would then have required two things:
1) If these opponents are conference mates you must play them as part of your annual schedule for us that means that 1) tu, 2)Piggy and 3) Swamp Kitten every year
2) You must play the separated opponents twice every 4 years.
3) You must play at least one of your top 5 most played opponents every year.
So we would have to play at least one of Baylor, TCU and Rice every year OOC and the other two would always be some combination of SMU, Tech, Okie Lite and Coog High
We would never be able to play anyone else as a OOC opponent every year.
Obviously glad A&M is part of a conference that appears like it will not bend to this foolishness because if they did, then they might as well force us back into the SWC at that point when half our schedule every year always and forever is an old SWC schedule.
But theoretically if the original version had been forced on to us, the section requiring mandated rivalry scheduling is wild in what it would have done to our OOC scheduling due to our history.
It said that to qualify, if more than 2 of your all time Top 10 opponents are no longer in your conference, then you become subject to the Federal Rules. 7 of our Top 10 are not in our conference so we would have triggered it.
For those wondering our "separated opponents Top 10 opponents" would be:
2 Baylor (108 meetings)
3 TCU (92 meetings)
5 Rice (82 meetings)
6 SMU (73 meetings)
7 TTU (70 meetings)
9 UH (33 meetings)
10 Okie Lite (31 meetings ((yeah I was surprised too at this))
Having done so, the law would then have required two things:
1) If these opponents are conference mates you must play them as part of your annual schedule for us that means that 1) tu, 2)Piggy and 3) Swamp Kitten every year
2) You must play the separated opponents twice every 4 years.
3) You must play at least one of your top 5 most played opponents every year.
So we would have to play at least one of Baylor, TCU and Rice every year OOC and the other two would always be some combination of SMU, Tech, Okie Lite and Coog High
We would never be able to play anyone else as a OOC opponent every year.
Obviously glad A&M is part of a conference that appears like it will not bend to this foolishness because if they did, then they might as well force us back into the SWC at that point when half our schedule every year always and forever is an old SWC schedule.
