(01-25-2019 02:27 PM)cubucks Wrote:  

(01-25-2019 01:48 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  FBSchedules commented on the Big Ten 2019 Football schedule this off season... it's softer than a mountain of pillows! Five B1G teams - including both Ohio State and Wisconsin - don't play a single P5 non-conference opponent, and two teams - Indiana and Minnesota - play no P5's AND get an FCS game too. I wrote about it on ACCFootballRx and came to this conclusion myself:

Quote:The Big Ten has played a very easy non-conference schedule for many years, but the 2019 schedule may be the softest schedule they've ever played as a group. Just remember this: if the Big Ten Championship Game comes down to Ohio State vs. Wisconsin, no matter what the teams' overall record, they will have ZERO P5 non-conference wins between them!

Given that a Buckeyes/Badgers CCG is a VERY real possibility... will that result in the Big Ten missing the playoffs yet again?

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2019/...-2019.html

I seen where a school from another conference has Old Dominion, Furman and Rhode Island on their non conference slate next year. As always though, "it's the best way to schedule with the new CFP format now". You know, what everybody has been saying the last few years? Just win your games and get in!

As soon as the BIG does it though, "oh how can they possibly make the playoffs with no non-con P5 game. Well, every school in the BIG plays 9 P5 games a year no matter what.

Look, I get it, I would rather Ohio State play P5 teams every game but this is the new playoff era and here we are with "cupcakes" to help the win column.

Any analysis of Ohio State's OOC the previous six years and what they appear to have scheduled over the next seven years makes this a non-issue for me and I suspect Hokie Mark as well. And for the record, I voted "NO" to the poll question that it won't have any impact on whether a Big Ten team makes the CFP next year.

I realize you are still relatively new here and I actually get you being a bit upset by the OP in this thread (or rather more likely the linked piece Hokie Mark wrote on his site) and some of the subsequent comments but it was based upon another site's article and it was specifically looking at next year's schedule and it raises a legitimate question specifically to next year and Ohio State's likelihood of making next year's CFP, since the Buckeyes are viewed as THE premiere team in the Big Ten - and it's not even close. It wasn't meant to be a "forever and always" statement about the Big Ten, or even Ohio State since you say you have no regard for conference, at all.

In such an analysis, if one is interested in doing it at all, I would suppose the natural comparison would be between Ohio State, Clemson, and Oklahoma since these programs have the best shot of representing their respective leagues next year and since the SEC is on another level entirely. You can pay me later JR.

It's not about ACC fans "riding" on the coattails or in psychological terminology "basking in the glory of" Clemson's recent successes, at least not this time out or at least not consciously about that. One thing I would suggest to all relatively new posters is to take advantage of the Search option this site provides to look to see past posts made by others on topics that interest the new poster. If one does so then one can quickly pick out those posters that are genuinely good to great and those that are not. And for the latter there is also an Ignore option provided by this site as well.

Cheers,
Neil