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2023 Big Ten Schedule Released
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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1882444" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://theathletic.com/4316576/2023/03/17/big-ten-football-schedule-format-opponents/[/URL]</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><em>"• Protect 3:</em></strong><em> Three permanent protected matchups, with games against six of the remaining 12 Big Ten opponents one year and the other six the next. Similar to the ACC’s 3-5-5 model, this is the format with the most repeatable structure: Every four years, each team would play three teams four times and the remaining 12 teams twice.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><strong>• Protect 2:</strong> Two permanent protected games played four times over four years. Over the course of four years, each Big Ten team would play the remaining league opponents at least twice and two teams three times.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><strong>• Flex Protect:</strong> A hybrid model in which each Big Ten team has one, two or three protected opponents. This format allows schedule-makers the most flexibility in terms of competitive balance, home-and-away rotations and the specific challenges around West Coast travel for teams playing USC or UCLA."</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Protect 3 is an absurd gambit by Iowa to give them Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska forever and basically give them an exemption from being pulled out of the Big Ten West. Illinois is 1000% guaranteed to be made a permanent annual rival of UCLA or USC under that proposal.</p><p></p><p>Protect 2 is what we want since it would mean Northwestern and Purdue. But it has a big "who gets the LA schools" problem.</p><p></p><p>The correct answer is completely obvious, it should just be Protect 1 with an extra allowed for Michigan to play Michigan State in addition to OSU and Minnesota to play Iowa in addition to Wisconsin. Nebraska and Penn State are both happier with each other as their "rivals" then getting stuck in a more rigidly geographic alignment.</p><p></p><p>But you can see in the way they're describing "Flex Protect" is that it becomes an avalanche of schools trying to cajole their way into permanently softening their schedules. This is where not having a commissioner hurts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1882444, member: 746137"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://theathletic.com/4316576/2023/03/17/big-ten-football-schedule-format-opponents/[/URL] [B][I]"• Protect 3:[/I][/B][I] Three permanent protected matchups, with games against six of the remaining 12 Big Ten opponents one year and the other six the next. Similar to the ACC’s 3-5-5 model, this is the format with the most repeatable structure: Every four years, each team would play three teams four times and the remaining 12 teams twice. [B]• Protect 2:[/B] Two permanent protected games played four times over four years. Over the course of four years, each Big Ten team would play the remaining league opponents at least twice and two teams three times. [B]• Flex Protect:[/B] A hybrid model in which each Big Ten team has one, two or three protected opponents. This format allows schedule-makers the most flexibility in terms of competitive balance, home-and-away rotations and the specific challenges around West Coast travel for teams playing USC or UCLA."[/I] Protect 3 is an absurd gambit by Iowa to give them Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska forever and basically give them an exemption from being pulled out of the Big Ten West. Illinois is 1000% guaranteed to be made a permanent annual rival of UCLA or USC under that proposal. Protect 2 is what we want since it would mean Northwestern and Purdue. But it has a big "who gets the LA schools" problem. The correct answer is completely obvious, it should just be Protect 1 with an extra allowed for Michigan to play Michigan State in addition to OSU and Minnesota to play Iowa in addition to Wisconsin. Nebraska and Penn State are both happier with each other as their "rivals" then getting stuck in a more rigidly geographic alignment. But you can see in the way they're describing "Flex Protect" is that it becomes an avalanche of schools trying to cajole their way into permanently softening their schedules. This is where not having a commissioner hurts. [/QUOTE]
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