TCU to the Big 12 impact on LSU&Arkansas

TCU is shite...so chances are good.

Arkansas will want to keep those games.

When A&M joins, we are losing our one decent OOC game. Its becoming a conference game.

We'll take it if we can play them.

I think A&M coming in means we'll most likely play Texas a little more often, too. Just because we will need that one good OOC game.

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Arkansas will want to keep those games.

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There is a zero percent chance that Gary Patterson buys his way out of a contract for a game. Zero.

Arkansas has bought their way into pushing these games back already. If they don't like what they see as far as a possible L on the schedule, they'll continue to push it back or buy it out.

LSU will play the game. No question, no matter whether TCU is looking strong or not.

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TCU is shite...so chances are good.

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TCU is putting up 45 pts a game with a redshirt sophomore QB and a team that is 2/3rds composed of players that have 2 or 3 years of eligibility left after this season. Oh and they won the Rose Bowl before they were able to tell recruits they were in a BCS conference.

TCU is reloading this year. Next year will be better. 2013 will be a good year.

We pushed TCU and Texas both back after we added A&M to our OOC schedule.

Our SOS is top 5 the last 5 years anyway.

We played at Austin in 2008. We had a return trip scheduled for Fayetteville in 2009, but that was the year we started our Southwest Classic with A&M, so we pushed it back.

I think we were scheduled originally with TCU in '11 and '12, home and home.

Having an annual neutral site OOC kinda threw a wrench in it, especially since we already send two games to Little Rock.

But the reason we pushed the Texas and TCU games back was A&M.

Now that A&M becomes conference, and we drop another eastern division game off to accomodate A&M, we'll put those games back on our schedule.

Makes sense to me.

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What are the chances these scheduled games still happen?

2013 TCU @LSU
2014 LSU @TCU
2015 TCU @Arkansas
2016 Arkansas @TCU

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I think TCU has been playing 8 conference games in the MWC and will now play 9 in the Big XII. In that case, they will have to get rid of a non-conference game, and might want to get out of those games. But, it also might be that they have non-conference games scheduled for those years with Big XII members, so they might not need to get out of any OOC games. They could just have their already-scheduled game with, for example, Baylor be a conference game instead of a non-conference game.

From the LSU/Arkansas perspective, unless the SEC goes to 9 conference games, which it seems none of the powers that be want to do, there'd be no reason to make changes in OOC schedules.

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I feel like Arkansas begins an OOC game with OU to replace the A&M one.

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I could see this happening, but I could just as easily see a TCU matchup.

I don't think we will do a long term contract with anyone OOC like we did with A&M a few years ago.

Texas doesn't want an OOC game with us that is every year. OU would be fun, but doesn't do a lot for us.

TCU at least once in a while gives us another DFW game and we have a lot of alumni there who like having a game closeby.

If the A&M/Arkansas game goes home&home, (which I believe it will) then I expect we'll play in DFW as much as we possibly can.