Well, it's always one of the best games in the Big 12 every single year.

Unfortunately, it's not going to be part of the annual matchups in the Big 12 when they moved the 16 teams next year.

And that is Farmageddon, Kansas State and Iowa State taking place on Saturday.

I'm Pete Mundo on Heartland College Sports.

Our guest is Tim Fitzgerald doing great work at Go PowerCat. We always appreciate

his time. And Tim, let's just start off at the fact that this game is not going to be an annual

game anymore in the Big 12. How did the conference miss this? Well, the conference missed a lot in the scheduling model they released, what, a few weeks ago, last week?

I can't keep track.

They've been so busy blundering over there with their decisions.

Look, there's just not enough protected games.

KUK State is one of only a handful, and they stuck within state games, Utah schools,

Arizona schools, I'm forgetting someone else. And it's a shame. There are other important

games for regional rivalries, historic rivalries, or just rivalries that, you know, have kind of butted up the last few years.

Some of these Texas schools should be playing more often.

The one that is even more egregious than Farmageddon is the fact that the Big 12 finally

added a regional geographical neighbor to West Virginia in Cincinnati and then decided,

but you don't get to play

every year. That is one of the most astinine things about all of this. Every school should have

three rivals. Whether you get to that with pods or not, having three annual rivals, three games,

the fans know are coming each season.

I think it's important for the integrity of the conference and to keep it kind of, you know,

rooted in some regional feel to it, even if some schools like UCF can't have that.

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