Daily Bullets (Aug. 7): Quotes from Media Day, Realignment Updates

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OSU Bullets

• Good to hear from OSU leadership this weekend – here’s the video of athletic director Chad Weiberg plus the top quotes from Mike Gundy (PFB)

• A Big 12 athletic director hinted the league may be headed to divisions for football (FootballScoop)

• I’m not familiar with “KFord Rankings” but if you look at the numbers like they’re Madden ratings, OSU is No. 17 nationally during the CFP era and this chart maps the new conference well (Twitter)

• Two bullets on realignment that are rumored to still be in play for the Big 12:

• Spots for two more teams in the league are being considered

• Anything from a pairing of remaining Pac-12 teams and Mountain West teams are being considered, as well as basketball-only invites for Gonzaga and UConn

• Man I’ve enjoyed all the Utah-BYU explanations using clips from The Office (here’s one, and another, and my favorite)

• Travel for the Arizona schools shouldn’t be that bad comparitively:

Here’s the distances & air travel times for Arizona State in Big 12 compared w/Pac-12. Arizona’s would be similar & there’s not that much difference pic.twitter.com/Hlp7ScfGhr

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) August 6, 2023

• Stadiums are really close in numbers – can’t wait to see these mountain stadiums in person.

2024 Big 12 teams by stadium capacity (updated):

BYU 63,470
Iowa St 61,500
Texas Tech 60,454
WVU 60,000
OK State 55,509
Arizona St 53,599
Utah 51,444
Arizona 50,782
Colorado 50,183
K-State 50,000
Kansas 47,233
UCF 45,301
Baylor 45,140
TCU 44,358
Cincinnati 40,000
Houston 40,000 pic.twitter.com/5BjBMMBmd8

— CFB Campus Tour (@CFBcampustour) August 4, 2023

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Non-OSU Bullets

• A dozen doctors talked about the things they avoid in life
• How productivity can starve the soul (faith-based)

This was my favorite realignment Tweet last week – great for Big 12 fans of The Office:

It’s back.

🔴 ⚔️ 🔵 pic.twitter.com/kb5ozBX3mJ

— Wing Pointe Studios (@WingPointe_) August 5, 2023