B1G Football Schedules with 18 teams

[armenius]

A 1-8-8 scheduling model would make sense where each team gets one protected rival they play every season and then over a 4 year period play every other team once at home and once away.

Ex:
Rutgers vs. Maryland every season

2024:
Home - Ohio St, UCLA, Illinois, Michigan St
Away - Oregon, Penn St, Minnesota, Nebraska

2025:
Home - Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, USC
Away - Michigan, Washington, Purdue, Northwestern

2026:
Home - Oregon, Penn St, Minnesota, Nebraska
Away - Ohio St, UCLA, Illinois, Michigan St

2027:
Home - Michigan, Washington, Purdue, Northwestern
Away - Iowa, Wisconsin, Purdue, Northwestern

 

[PSU_Nut]

That is great model but the Big is more worried about tv lineup then fairness and playing everyone. So likely we will see no rotation just making sure the big name schools play each other more often.

 

[BigEastPhil]

A 1-8-8 scheduling model would make sense where each team gets one protected rival they play every season and then over a 4 year period play every other team once at home and once away.

Ex:
Rutgers vs. Maryland every season

2024:
Home - Ohio St, UCLA, Illinois, Michigan St
Away - Oregon, Penn St, Minnesota, Nebraska

2025:
Home - Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, USC
Away - Michigan, Washington, Purdue, Northwestern

2026:
Home - Oregon, Penn St, Minnesota, Nebraska
Away - Ohio St, UCLA, Illinois, Michigan St

2027:
Home - Michigan, Washington, Purdue, Northwestern
Away - Iowa, Wisconsin, Purdue, Northwestern

Conceptually makes a lot of sense.

Things to consider:

- All 4 PAC teams may play each other annually to reduce travel

- Michigan has 2 rival games annually that must be played : Ohio State and Michigan State. This goes for several schools

- You can go to a 5-2-2 model whereby 3 pods of 6 schools exist and you play the teams in your pod annually and the other schools once every 3 years.

- Go to 10 conference games annually.

- TV may insist on annual games occurring with marquis teams such as Ohio State vs USC / Michigan vs Oregon. Etc.

18 schools causes scheduling issues in football for sure as well as in basketball.

 

[rutgersguy1]

 

[Scarlet16E]

I expect they confuse with a new schedule based on the same flex protect model they just did.

 

[armenius]

Conceptually makes a lot of sense.

Things to consider:

- All 4 PAC teams may play each other annually to reduce travel

- Michigan has 2 rival games annually that must be played : Ohio State and Michigan State. This goes for several schools

- You can go to a 5-2-2 model whereby 3 pods of 6 schools exist and you play the teams in your pod annually and the other schools once every 3 years.

- Go to 10 conference games annually.

- TV may insist on annual games occurring with marquis teams such as Ohio State vs USC / Michigan vs Oregon. Etc.

18 schools causes scheduling issues in football for sure as well as in basketball.

I think basketball will be fine because it would only take 17 games to play every school once which leaves plenty of room for some home and aways.

As far as football goes, if they expand to a 10 game conference schedule, they'll be able to protect more games, but I still feel that if they're dropping divisions, part of the goal should be to ensure that every school plays on every campus at least once every four years.

I can't see them going back to pods/divisions when they just announced they're eliminating them.

 

[rutgersguy1]

I think basketball will be fine because it would only take 17 games to play every school once which leaves plenty of room for some home and aways.

As far as football goes, if they expand to a 10 game conference schedule, they'll be able to protect more games, but I still feel that if they're dropping divisions, part of the goal should be to ensure that every school plays on every campus at least once every four years.

I can't see them going back to pods/divisions when they just announced they're eliminating them.

At 18 probably not but at 20 or 24 if that happens in the future, I think divisions are possible again and allows for a conference semifinal. I suppose they could do that with just the top 4 teams but using divisions would be cleaner.

 

[armenius]

At 18 probably not but at 20 or 24 if that happens in the future, I think divisions are possible again and allows for a conference semifinal. I suppose they could do that with just the top 4 teams but using divisions would be cleaner.

Agreed if they expand further, they'll have no choice.

 

[RUBlackout]

Are they going to adjust our schedule for next year with the 2 new teams added?

 

[armenius]

Are they going to adjust our schedule for next year with the 2 new teams added?

There was a tweet earlier that said they will be tweaking the current schedule to include Oregon and Washington instead of a full overhaul

 

[ScarletDave]

The SEC does not do protected rivals or fair/balanced yearly scheduling. They just release the future schedules and you get whi you get. As someone mentioned above, it will be about creating the best TV matchups rather than playing everyone the same amount of times.

 

[Tango Two]