Ok I asked Richie in the other thread and then got curious so I started looking for the trends....
It looks like we have played the 7-3-3 format since 20 game format started in 18-19.
So 7 teams home and home. 3 home. 3 away.
It's clear from the trends that the 6 single game opponents are 6 of the 7 H-H series.
One of the H-H teams repeats for the 7th H-H series.
We will then play either a home or away game against the last 6 H-H teams from this past season.
Pattern holds that we will just rotate home - away based on where we played last time that team was a single game opponent.
With that said we know that we will play home and home against:
Indiana (1)
MSU (4)
Iowa (6)
OSU (9)
NW (13)
MN (14)
Hard to tell who will stay on as H-H again, Penn State stayed on from 18-19 to 19-20 and Maryland was H-H the last 3 years.
So maybe it has to do with finish place or rivalry...not sure?
Potential Home Games would be:
Michigan (3)
Penn State (11)
Nebraska (12)
Potential Away Games would be:
Illinois (2)
Purdue (5)
Maryland (7)
Wisconsin (10)
My initial thoughts were:
We get to play Indiana twice, which i think is a good thing. If they are as good as they are supposed to be then we have a chance for two good wins, because until proven otherwise we are still their Daddy.
Road game wins...sheesh....going to be tough to get some easy chances there.
I guess NW, MN (who both beat us last year?) and Wisconsin are the most win-able on paper right now?
Ok have at it boys....thoughts on this breakdown. My apologies if his was obvious to everyone else already, but I didn't see it posted any where.
It looks like we have played the 7-3-3 format since 20 game format started in 18-19.
So 7 teams home and home. 3 home. 3 away.
It's clear from the trends that the 6 single game opponents are 6 of the 7 H-H series.
One of the H-H teams repeats for the 7th H-H series.
We will then play either a home or away game against the last 6 H-H teams from this past season.
Pattern holds that we will just rotate home - away based on where we played last time that team was a single game opponent.
With that said we know that we will play home and home against:
Indiana (1)
MSU (4)
Iowa (6)
OSU (9)
NW (13)
MN (14)
Hard to tell who will stay on as H-H again, Penn State stayed on from 18-19 to 19-20 and Maryland was H-H the last 3 years.
So maybe it has to do with finish place or rivalry...not sure?
Potential Home Games would be:
Michigan (3)
Penn State (11)
Nebraska (12)
Potential Away Games would be:
Illinois (2)
Purdue (5)
Maryland (7)
Wisconsin (10)
My initial thoughts were:
We get to play Indiana twice, which i think is a good thing. If they are as good as they are supposed to be then we have a chance for two good wins, because until proven otherwise we are still their Daddy.
Road game wins...sheesh....going to be tough to get some easy chances there.
I guess NW, MN (who both beat us last year?) and Wisconsin are the most win-able on paper right now?
Ok have at it boys....thoughts on this breakdown. My apologies if his was obvious to everyone else already, but I didn't see it posted any where.