B1G Reverting to Eight Conference Games per Year?

[San Diego Husker]

On 1/26/2022 at 2:11 PM, knapplc said:

And then the Big Ten can give us OSU as a "random" crossover seven out of ten years.

hum, was thinking8 or 9 out of 10 myself. and then only seeing Indiana twice in that time frame.

[Mavric]

Here's my stab at an eight-game conference schedule with no divisions.  Three opponents you play every year, then five that alternate each year so you play the same schedule every other year and play everyone ever two years.  Games in red are Rivalry/Trophy games that was my first preference for annual opponents.  Obviously teams with more than three trophy games couldn't keep them all.  I didn't want to give Penn State Rutgers and Maryland every year but Maryland is apparently a trophy game and someone had to be Rutgers third.  I guess it's kind of the far-east pod.

 

[runningblind]

14 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Here's my stab at an eight-game conference schedule with no divisions.  Three opponents you play every year, then five that alternate each year so you play the same schedule every other year and play everyone ever two years.  Games in red are Rivalry/Trophy games that was my first preference for annual opponents.  Obviously teams with more than three trophy games couldn't keep them all.  I didn't want to give Penn State Rutgers and Maryland every year but Maryland is apparently a trophy game and someone had to be Rutgers third.  I guess it's kind of the far-east pod.

 

I really like this idea. My first question is who gets into the title game? Two best records?

[Mavric]

17 minutes ago, runningblind said:

I really like this idea. My first question is who gets into the title game? Two best records?

 

I presume that would be the idea.

 

Or perhaps the CCGs go away if the playoff expands.

[jager]

Mavric, that is probably the best looking schedule for the conference. maintains most rivalries and is balanced (something we are not used to).

Best two records followed by rankings or head to head match-ups.

[Red Five]

B1G schedules for 2023 and forward have been removed from the team's webpages.

 

Gene Smith said 8 games are out of the equation, but is 2022 the last year of divisions?

 

 

[Mavric]

[84HuskerLaw]

If you eliminate divisions, the Big Ten can then ‘schedule’ their annual championship game of Michigan v Ohio State in late Nov.  they can fix the slate so those two get the bottom two thirds of the league as well.  Shut out PSU etc if they want.  They  need two divisions with rotating membership set for a complete revolving schedule over a term of years.  Use a lottary draw and seed them and set up home and away alternating game and work thru the league with 8 conference and 4 or even 5 non cons.  

[BigRedBuster]

23 minutes ago, 84HuskerLaw said:

If you eliminate divisions, the Big Ten can then ‘schedule’ their annual championship game of Michigan v Ohio State in late Nov.  they can fix the slate so those two get the bottom two thirds of the league as well.  Shut out PSU etc if they want.  They  need two divisions with rotating membership set for a complete revolving schedule over a term of years.  Use a lottary draw and seed them and set up home and away alternating game and work thru the league with 8 conference and 4 or even 5 non cons.  

I'll admit, I had this thought.  However, that would be really stupid to do as a conference.  So, Michigan and OSU would play every year on the last weekend of regular season.....then many times turn around and play again the next week? 

 

Sounds like a recipe for tanking viewership.  

[hskrfan4life]

2 hours ago, Red Five said:

B1G schedules for 2023 and forward have been removed from the team's webpages.

 

Gene Smith said 8 games are out of the equation, but is 2022 the last year of divisions?

 

 

I think they did that so we can rework them for new TV partners. Plus covid ruined the schedules

[Mavric]

 

[Born N Bled Red]

So the league said - Oh crap, Nebraska is finally rotating to cross overs that aren't Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State every year, like they've been looking forward to since we started screwing them with that schedule more than a decade ago. How do we throw them back under the bus and ensure they don't make a championship game for the next 20 years?

 

Oh I know, let's use the excuse of reverting to 8 League games with three PERMANENT cross overs. We'll give them Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan EVERY YEAR, FOREVER!!! Muah hahahahaha. 

 

[Mavric]

 

[Comish]

8 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Without commenting on the past, the reality is that Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota is our Natural Pod, and I have no problem with that...

[Dogs In A Pile]

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#Nebraska: Iowa, Minn, Wisc

 

I wouldn't mind seeing this come about. And I'd to see the rest of the games get evenly rotated for all B1G teams so we don't end up playing OSU 8 of the next 11 years like we have for the first 11 years in the conference.