Future Schedules

#26      
Fighter of the Nightman
fuddrules said:
I know USC and Ole Miss canceled their series due to SEC considering the 9 game schedule in 2026. So they said.

Give me a non-SEC school (Duke, Kansas, etc...home/away), a MAC school (home) and an FCS school (home) per year and call it a day. With the B1G the way it is now, they don't need some super tough non-conference schedule.
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Devil’s advocate only here … how’s the Big Ten so daunting now? Programs change, of course, but we still play 9 conference games like we always did, and you could argue several programs look less scary now than in the past … Wisconsin, UCLA, Washington, Northwestern, Purdue, Iowa, MSU, Minnesota, etc. We appear to be in as good of a spot as any of them.
 
#27      
Mr. Tibbs
the Big10 & SEC really need to get on the same page with scheduling
- # of conf games
- # of P4 & G6 games
- allow or disallow FCS games
 
#28      
SampsonRelpenk
I would be sad if the conference ever decided to ban scheduling FCS teams. Those programs need the check, I love having at least one game a year to watch bench guys get to play, and (unless it's us of course) the potential for massive upsets.
 
#29      
ChiefGritty
Mr. Tibbs said:
the Big10 & SEC really need to get on the same page with scheduling
- # of conf games
- # of P4 & G6 games
- allow or disallow FCS games
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The thing is, 9 conference games and an effort to schedule non-conference matchups between the two conferences would virtually freeze out the remnants of the old Power Five.

Which, one suspects, is exactly the idea.

This is an NFL-ization summit.
 
#30      
fuddrules
Fighter of the Nightman said:
Devil’s advocate only here … how’s the Big Ten so daunting now? Programs change, of course, but we still play 9 conference games like we always did, and you could argue several programs look less scary now than in the past … Wisconsin, UCLA, Washington, Northwestern, Purdue, Iowa, MSU, Minnesota, etc. We appear to be in as good of a spot as any of them.
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All P2 schools. 9 of those P2 games is good or tough enough when you add in a Kansas or Duke. Indiana this year will, *or may*, get a lot of benefit from playing a weaker schedule for a B1G. It will benefit them.

I don't think it will be often that Illinois will need such a tough schedule that they're fighting for a top 4 seed in the playoffs. Get wins where you can.
 
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