ohio1317
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Ideal Schedule
What would be an ideal scheduling for you for your school given the soon to be existing Big Ten set-up?
Set-up as of 2016:
1. 12 total games, 9 of them conference games.
2. East and west divisions. 6 games against teams in your division and 3 vs. teams outside your division.
3. Purdue and Indiana left as locked crossovers.
4. "Parity based scheduling" takes effect in 2016 for everyone but Indiana and Purdue (who will instead play each other every year). They have never officially said what this will mean, but based on released schedules and comments, it looks pretty certain to mean:
a) They will lock Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State with one of Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Iowa for 6 years and then rotate them to another (meaning it will take 18 years to complete rotation).
b) The same thing will be done with Minnesota, Illinois, and Northwestern with Rutgers, Maryland, and Michigan State.
c) Assuming this was all figured right (and we have 4 years of schedules already released), the first 6 years, the locked "parity" crossovers will be:
Ohio State-Nebraska
Michigan-Wisconsin
Penn State-Iowa
Michigan State-Northwestern
Rutgers-Illinois
Maryland-Minnesota
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05-12-2015 09:18 PM |
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ohio1317
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RE: Ideal Schedule
For me I'd like to see it rotation, I'd like this:
Non-conference: I would like all 3 non-conference games the first 3 weeks of the year.
Week 1: A school expected to be fairly weak (although still FBS) at home. Warm up game that we will win 95% of the time, and will be used to work out early season issues.
Week 2: Stronger Group of 5 team or Power 5 program that will do a one and done.
Week 3: Marquee opponent. Texas, USC, Alabama, etc. Home and home.
First conference game: I'd like to play Rutgers or Maryland first and then the other somewhat later. We don't have much history with either and I don't want them grouped together in the schedule given that. I think starting with one or the other every year might help build the games faster.
Early October: Our "parity" based opponent from the other division or another team expected to be strong in a given year (hard to tell in advance I know).
Late October: Vs. Penn State. Our secondary rival has varied a lot in the past decade with each of Penn State, Wisconsin, and Michigan State seeming to fill the roll for awhile. I think Penn State is most likely to have this position most often going forward given division set-up/ease of success at the program (meaning less has to go right for good results). I like putting it in about the middle of the season. Since the games have been increasingly at night as of late, still in October makes sense.
Next to last weekend of the season: This is the traditional rivalry weekend and I am still somewhat sad the Big Ten season doesn't end here. I'd put Illinois here every year that they are on our schedule. They are our only trophy game and a long ago big rival even if most don't remember that anymore.
Final weekend: Michigan
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RE: Ideal Schedule
I'd like to see the B1G allow for late season OOC games. Something about Nebraska vs Oklahoma screams $$$ to me.
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05-13-2015 02:43 PM |
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RE: Ideal Schedule
I don't think there is really a rule against it. It's just more work to get scheduled. I don't think you'll ever see a non-conference game Thanksgiving week (unless two teams agreed to play out of conference for a year), but I think you could put something like Nebraska vs. Oklahoma in November if there was enough of a will get it done. I'm not sure they'll jump through the hoops of scheduling with both the Big Ten and Big 12 for a later date though.
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05-13-2015 03:12 PM |
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