Once upon a time in the world of college football, the Big 12 Conference was renowned for its high-octane games, passionate fans, and fierce competition. However, in the year 2023, the conference found itself in a debacle that threatened its reputation and sent shockwaves throughout the college football world. It all began with a scheduling mishap that seemed almost too surreal to believe.
It was a bright and sunny morning when the athletic directors of the Big 12 gathered for their annual scheduling meeting. The purpose of this meeting was to plan the football matchups for the upcoming season, a task that had always been crucial to ensure the competitiveness of the conference. This year, however, things took an unexpected turn.
As the ADs sat around the conference room table, conference commissioner, Joe Benson, known for his meticulous planning, unveiled the master schedule. Each team's schedule was carefully arranged to ensure a balance of home and away games, rivalry matchups, and a fair distribution of opponents. Yet, unbeknownst to anyone in the room, a junior intern, Tim, had been entrusted with the final approval of the schedule.
Tim, an eager but inexperienced intern, was given the task of entering the schedule data into the conference's computer system. He had been working tirelessly for weeks, meticulously inputting the data, but little did he know, a critical error was about to occur.
As the final keystroke was hit, an unintentional mistake in the code caused a software glitch that randomized the schedule in a bizarre and absurd manner. Teams were suddenly slated to play against their own rivals multiple times in a single season, while others had an imbalanced home-and-away game distribution that would prove detrimental to their performance.
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