I've been reluctant to wade into the "Big 12 is gaming the system" debate, primarily because it's impossible to know (and those who insist they know are simply more insistent than they are correct). Here's what we actually do know: • There are seven Big 12 teams with a non-conference schedule rankings worse than 300.
• Those seven teams played 32 games against the bottom 100 teams in Division I (more specifically the bottom 112 teams, NET 251-362, but you get the idea).