B1G in discussion to eliminate divisions by 2023

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WhosYourDawggy said:
You don’t accomplish playing teams more often by reducing your in conference game schedule. For example, the SEC is thinking about going to nine games so that we play people more often. Going from nine games to eight games means you will play teams less often.
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Go to 8 conference games.
Each team gets a unique 3 permanent rivalry opponents. The remaining 10 get split in two pools and you alternate who you play every other year. Require two real P5 opponents (not this Army, Cincinnati, BYU bullshit).

Right now it takes 3 years to rotate through all of the other division.
 
fordman84 said:
Both of them too scared of COVID?
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I don't think so. I think it was a couple of years before COVID...back when Delaney was still commish. But I'm old and my memory left about the same time my hair did.
 
outofyourmind said:
Backing down to 8 conference games so we can see more of Purdue vs Oregon State


Hard Pass on that one.
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game was a 2 point game at 3:13 and 7 points at 2:09
better game than any OOC Alabama has played in the last decade
 
That's the first documented sign of support for those who've stated the "Alliance" is simply a way to combat the SEC.

I'm now a buyer in that being it's sole purpose.

Moving to an 8 game conference schedule will give the typical 5 win teams an extra cupcake win to 6 and bowl eligibility.
That's been the SEC formula for years now.
 
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Red_Alert said:
Moving to an 8 game conference schedule will give the typical 5 win teams an extra cupcake win to 6 and bowl eligibility
That's been the SEC formula for years now.
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how many times thought the years in all the conferences do we think the 2 best teams were from the same division?
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
In regards to the conference play, that is the B1Gs own dumbass set up they had. Just like why we have been in for 10 years and played Ohio St like 8 times, but Indiana only 2 lol. I wish they would pick up a couple teams and just go to like a conference pod system. Then you could be in pods of 4, playing 3 and rotate A and B years playing 2 teams from each pod totaling 9 conference games. Then they could introduce their own B1G playoff with a 4 team tournament with the top 4 pod teams.

And I don't look at the west not winning as a problem. I think you will have more problems if it were to turn out to be Ohio St and Michigan or Penn st in the title game every year. The west has their chance, Ohio st, penn st, and Michigan recruit at a higher level and it shows. The west could still win, nebraska showed last year by keeping it close against all the east good teams, it isn't all about recruiting, but I'm sure it helps.
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They paired OSU with Nebraska because the conference assumed that at some point Nebraska would pull their heads out of their collective asses and it would make for some great games.

No dice.
 
ellupo said:
The SEC is too scared to travel up north so that could never happen.
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We played Penn State in college station and Georgia played at ND recently.

Your hypothesis proves false.
 
I think it is a good idea:

- Go to pods so you play less conference games but play more teams more often
- Schedule a week where B1G schools match up with the PAC schools head to head and rotate the games (a couple of teams will be left out but Michigan State has ND and Iowa has Iowa State so you can leave them out)

What's not to like.

I think the same week the SEC and ACC should do something similar. It would be great for college football.
 
7samurai13 said:
Go to 8 conference games.
Each team gets a unique 3 permanent rivalry opponents. The remaining 10 get split in two pools and you alternate who you play every other year. Require two real P5 opponents (not this Army, Cincinnati, BYU bullshit).

Right now it takes 3 years to rotate through all of the other division.
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I guess the difference with the SEC is that we will now have 16, not 14 teams. In order for us to play each team every other year, we have to play 9 CGs. 3 permanent opponents, that leaves 12 others to play, with 5 or 6 games depending on 8 or 9 IC games. To do every other year you have to play 9 IC games. That will also increase the TV inventory. Only downside is that is one more loss for half the league. What the PAC and others have been complaining about for years.
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
If that is what they believe, then they haven't been paying attention to CFB. Given that the B1G is lead by Kevin Warren... that could be true.

The problem is the lack of parity. Adding a playoff and allowing 2 SEC teams in with 5 power conferences, regardless of 'deserving' is something that not many outside of the SEC care to see. Likewise, if you remove divisions and only Ohio St and Penn St seem to make the B1G championship, you are going to see a decline in interest.

But that is my opinion. But none of it will be fixed by the B1G alone, recruiting has to be addressed.
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How do you propose to "fix" recruiting to drive parity. I mean the NIL/Free Agency/Expansion moves are the things that are going to do that now, or not. What else do you propose?
 
outofyourmind said:
Backing down to 8 conference games so we can see more of Purdue vs Oregon State


Hard Pass on that one.
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Yeah, unless you are going to always put best against best, you aren't going to really help your inventory of games, and that has to be what it is about. USC v. tOSU over and over isn't fair to either team, or the ones that don't get to play the premiere teams.
 
It’s not the biggest money maker obviously, but I still say 12 is the perfect amount of teams per conference.

If I had my way, we’d go with 5 12 team major conferences, 8 game conference schedules with a minimum of 2 P5 OOC games per season
 
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