2025 Scheduling Updates

Red_Alert said:
I'd bet if Nebraska gets to 10 regular season wins this year, they'll get into the CFP.

They'll get the benefit from name alone.
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Looking at their schedule, I'd probably agree. But if you lost to UM and PSU, on the way to 10-2 you never know. Nobody else on your schedule is guaranteed to finish ranked.
 
Red_Alert said:
Been there done that.
It's just assumed the Big 10 and SEC "grinds" are enough.
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Not all of those grinds are the same anymore because of unbalanced schedules. Indiana and Texas both had easier schedules than most of their conference brethren.
 
Calling all husker fans....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Tennessee pull out of our 2016/2017 series we initially had scheduled?
 
Across The Field said:
Indiana would not have made it this year if they were 10-2. If that michigan game had gone sideways in the 4th quarter and they lost, they would've been outside looking in. They were the 10 seed at 11-1. Had they gone 10-2, with their best win being either 6-6 Nebraska or 6-6 Washington, they are definitely getting jumped by a few teams. They managed to only face two of the top seven teams in the B1G, and went 1-1 with a narrow win.
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Took a lil' road trip and was listening to local sports radio.

They're saying in 2026 the OOC is not gonna matter. The top 5 Big 10 teams (in conference) will automatically make the playoffs. Therefore, a 10 win team will highly likely make the CFP.

They also said Tennessee backed out of a home-and-home w/Nebraska in like 2015/2016 for some reason and that the 2026/2027 was the agreed to make up years.

Nebraska is supposed to be doing a renovation of the south endzone in 2026/2027 and will be losing a bunch of revenue on those seats. Therefore they'll need an extra home game to make up for the lost revenue.
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
Calling all husker fans....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Tennessee pull out of our 2016/2017 series we initially had scheduled?
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Apparently Danny White doesn't want anyone to know that.
 
Red_Alert said:
Personally I think it's an example of the CFP hurting OOC scheduling.

Nebraska can replace Tennessee with Cracker Jack St. for sure wins in 2026/2027.
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I mean...Nebraska can schedule all the cupcakes they want....they still aren't going to the CFP.
 
ericd7633 said:
Some info on the Fox/B1G Friday night games:

In its first season as an 18-school conference, the Big Ten shifted nine games to Friday nights. This fall, the league is looking to place games on every Friday of the regular season, starting on Aug. 29 and concluding on Black Friday.

But deciding which games should shift from Saturday to Friday is hardly simple. It’s a delicate balancing act for the league, its three media partners and the universities. Each school has on-campus concerns the conference must consider before moving a home game off of Saturday. A sampling:

  • Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and Iowa have allowances to avoid Friday home football games. Iowa’s massive hospital complex is located across the street from Kinnick Stadium, which prevents it from hosting a Friday game except on Labor Day weekend or Black Friday. With stadiums seating more than 100,000 fans, stresses on community services have kept Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State off the Friday grid. Michigan also will not play Friday games on the road.
  • Schools must grant approval if the league wants to schedule either a second home or second away game on a Friday, for health and recovery reasons as well as competitive balance.
  • The league wants to avoid situations of lopsided schedule difficulty like what happened last fall to Michigan State, which hosted Ohio State on a Saturday, then traveled to Oregon the next Friday.
  • Homecoming remains a major event for the longtime Big Ten campuses, which often locks in those kickoffs to Saturday afternoon.
Then there’s the league’s trio of media partners: Fox, CBS and NBC. Outside of Thanksgiving weekend, the Big Ten’s Friday kickoffs appear on the Fox family of networks (Fox, FS1, BTN). But the league doesn’t want to move an upper-level game that NBC or CBS might want to draft for its showcase Saturday broadcast.

“In our mind, we’re looking for maybe the fourth-, fifth- or sixth-best game of the week to try and make sure that at least on paper, going into a season, the top three games are going to be available for selection by those three broadcast partners,” Big Ten chief operating officer Kerry Kenny told The Athletic last year.

With those variables in mind, filling out a Friday night schedule is akin to completing a football sudoku puzzle. In attempting one myself, nearly a dozen versions went into the fireplace. I’d reach the season’s final week, and somehow a team ended up with a second home Friday game or a significant competitive disadvantage. Eventually, one made it through with the principles intact.

The Big Ten’s final version — last year’s Friday schedule was set in May at the league’s spring meetings.
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Friday night is for high school football.

I did enjoy going to the Black Friday game against the Nerds. Doing it next year in Mercedes Benz stadium. That's going to be a fun home game for the Dawgs.
 
Brutus said:
It must be language in the massive contract they signed, otherwise, it makes no sense. Maybe the B1G AD's bitch enough this offseason and changes are made, unless Fox just really doesn't give a fuck and insists on noon kickoffs. It's hurting the B1G brand.
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Sounds familiar? :dhd:
 
ericd7633 said:
If they expand, sure. But 10-2 in the 12 CFP isn't guaranteed. With that said, the B1G and SEC are gonna completely fuck this thing up.
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ND has nothing to complain about. You guys are getting the best of all this - you don't have to play Championship weekend, and if they go to 14 or 16 you are almost guaranteed to be in every year.
 
huskers1217 said:
Things will change when the $EC stops playing Mercer in November and goes to 9 conf games like the B1G
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It's terrible ... the B1G has been playing 9 IC games for 50 years ... oh, wait, they started that in 2016 because they thought it would help them get in the CFP. And the SEC being the only conference doing this is terrible ... oh, wait, the ACC only plays 8 IC games.

The whining about the Nov games is the craziest thing. Your team just dropped an SEC OOC to pick up ... checks notes ... Bowling Green and Miami of Ohio. Oh, but god forbid that the SEC plays a shit game in November while you play Bowling Green and Miami of Ohio as a pre-season warm-up game.
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
Danny's acting like a fag.
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Don't make me defend the Hillbillies, but it seems to me he is just stating a fact that Nebraska pussied out of the game. Seems to be a reasonable thing for an AD to do.
 
ericd7633 said:
With imbalanced schedules conference schedules are going to wildly fluctuate.
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The conferences just have to do a better job. Hell, I could have gotten a group of high school CFB fans to do a better job than the SEC did in 2024/25.
 
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