{"id":2744,"date":"2012-12-15T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2012-12-15T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T23:57:07","slug":"the-big-two-and-little-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-big-two-and-little-six\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Two and Little Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the 48 years of the Big Seven and Big Eight conferences\u00a0(1948-95) as 48 football championship units, divided in split-title years. Of those, only 6 and 1\/6 units were <em>not<\/em> won by Nebraska or Oklahoma, broken down as follows from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/conferences\/big-8\/\">sports-reference.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colorado, 3 (1961, 1989, 1990) plus 1\/2 (1991) plus 1\/3 (1976)<\/li>\n<li>Missouri, 1 (1960) plus 1\/2 (1969)<\/li>\n<li>Kansas, 1\/2 (1968)<\/li>\n<li>Oklahoma State, 1\/3 (1976)<\/li>\n<li>Iowa State and Kansas State, zero<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It makes the Big Ten of the same time period look positively egalitarian. The three-way 1967 split of Indiana, Minnesota, and Purdue is still the most recent conference championship for the first two.<\/p>\n<p>Of the four who did not win a full championship, Kansas won one (1930) and two halves (1946-47) in the Big Six while Kansas State won one (1934). Oklahoma State is credited with a title in 1926 as Oklahoma A&amp;M in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association before the split. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/conferences\/mviaa\/1926.html\">(Nebraska was 5-1 in conference, OA&amp;M was 3-0-1.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iowa State&#8217;s only conference titles are 1911 and 1912 in the MVIAA, both shared with Nebraska. Iowa State has never, ever, <em>ever<\/em> won a conference football championship outright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the 48 years of the Big Seven and Big Eight conferences\u00a0(1948-95) as 48 football championship units, divided in split-title years. Of those, only 6 and 1\/6 units were not won by Nebraska or Oklahoma, broken down as follows from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-big-two-and-little-six\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}