It's that week in the season that SEC teams play such stalwarts as Austin Peay, East Tennessee St., UMass, Western Kentucky, New Mexico St. and UAB.
The "supposedly" best conference in the NCAA and each team only plays 8 conference foes.
Granted some of the teams play one decent non-conference foe, but it isn't required.
(4) relatively easy non-conf games and you only need (2) conf. wins to be bowl eleigible.
A week opponent in Week 12 is almost like another bye week.
I would like the Big 12, when we have 12 teams consider the same scheduling. Play 8 conf. games and 4 non-con games.
Let each school decide if they want to schedule 1 or 2 tough non-con games or not.
As evidenced by the media's disregard for TCU, it wouldn't matter if we played 9 or 10 conf. games, we won't get the respect.
Massey composite rankings has the Big 12 as the #1 conference. Most media types would say we are 3rd behind SEC and B1g.
Massey Composite