FWST: Patterson: Expansion would help TCU, but ‘I like the model we have now’

Big 12 expansion would benefit TCU because it would mean an easier schedule, coach Gary Patterson said, but he remains in favor of the league as it stands.

“I like the model that we have now, even though it’s tougher,” he said Tuesday during a Big 12 football coaches teleconference with reporters. “It would be easier on TCU if all of us went to expansion. Then we could have more nonconference games.”

The league has no taken action on expansion or a championship game. The league’s round-robin schedule among 10 teams remains in place for at least another year.

“Everybody wants to say you have to have expansion to have a better chance of playing for the national title,” Patterson said. “They should try to play everybody every year. That’s a tough situation.”