Anchor Drop, January 28, 2023: The Last SEC/Big 12 Challenge

Good morning.

Optional Musical Accompaniment

Vanderbilt’s not playing in this year’s SEC/Big 12 Challenge (or is it Big 12/SEC Challenge?) That’s fine, except that Vanderbilt is instead going to play at Texas A&M at 7:30 PM CT in the SEC Network’s annual Night of the Island of Misfit Toys featuring the four teams that got left out of the challenge.

Which is all fine, because this nonsense is ending. The concept of the conference challenge is kind of silly, and it’s the kind of thing that’s been put together by the networks because apparently power conference teams can’t just schedule one another any more. You have to make them play each other, or else they won’t. (I found this article that’s…