OREGON to the B1G

MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
I'd rather have more conference games, especially now with the conference at 18. And within the last 10 years Indiana, Northwestern, Virginia, Cal, Stanford, Indiana and Iowa State have all produced some decent, if not flat out good, football teams multiple times. I'd rather play the 9-4 Virginia team than ECU or Eastern Michigan. With the lower P5 teams it's more of a crap shoot but it's still better than playing 3-4 duds per year.

The last time Ohio State played Miami (OH) (2019) they won SEVENTY SIX to FIVE. Come on. That game shouldn't be played. The closest game between the two was 27-16, in 2000 when Ohio State went 6-6.

And really, there's only a few really bad P5 teams per conference and everyone can't play them if it's mandated to play P5 teams in OOC. Most of the time you'd be rotating through some pretty good teams.
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I threw out Miami just as an example, obviously it was a blowout and will be basically every year, but I'd rather beat them 76-5 and hand them a nice check to help their program than beat Indiana by an average of 55-10 like we have the past 2 years, or destroying Rutgers every year like we have since they inexplicably joined the conference.
 
Kburjr said:
I think OOC games should all be home and home series.
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Some depending on the opponent are 2 home for one away or two home games. There no way Wisconsin would travel to Laramie to play at Wyoming or at Reno to play Nevada. Ditto with MAC Schools.
 
Huskers4me said:
Some depending on the opponent are 2 home for one away or two home games. There no way Wisconsin would travel to Laramie to play at Wyoming or at Reno to play Nevada. Ditto with MAC Schools.
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Then, don't play those schools. We have, in the past, played directional Illinois and Michigan teams just for the paycheck. I don't care for that shit.
 
Across The Field said:
I threw out Miami just as an example, obviously it was a blowout and will be basically every year, but I'd rather beat them 76-5 and hand them a nice check to help their program than beat Indiana by an average of 55-10 like we have the past 2 years, or destroying Rutgers every year like we have since they inexplicably joined the conference.
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Again, you're also using the worst possible examples from every conference. If you go to a 10 game conference schedule ,that means that teams like Rutgers are really only going to be able to schedule two of those games. The overwhelming majority of these games are going to equate to really good matchups.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Doesn't stop anything. You can schedule teams below G5, ALabama does once a year. Only one of them can count in terms of W/L. Michigan did it once, and then lost to App State.

Also, the current system favors scheduling the worst teams possible.
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All games count for W/L.

Only 1 FCS win can count towards bowl eligibility.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Again, you're also using the worst possible examples from every conference. If you go to a 10 game conference schedule ,that means that teams like Rutgers are really only going to be able to schedule two of those games. The overwhelming majority of these games are going to equate to really good matchups.
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You really think these upper level teams are going to go out of their way to risk a extra L, especially now when 2 losses will still get you into the playoff a lot of times?
 
osubuckeye89 said:
You really think these upper level teams are going to go out of their way to risk a extra L, especially now when 2 losses will still get you into the playoff a lot of times?
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Well, that's why it would be forced. If you eliminate the ability to schedule G5, then they'd be forced to build schedules around P5 teams. And they wouldn't be able to just schedule rutgers every year.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Well, that's why it would be forced. If you eliminate the ability to schedule G5, then they'd be forced to build schedules around P5 teams. And they wouldn't be able to just schedule rutgers every year.
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You might be able to get alignment on 9 conference games. You definitely won't for 10.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Well, that's why it would be forced. If you eliminate the ability to schedule G5, then they'd be forced to build schedules around P5 teams. And they wouldn't be able to just schedule rutgers every year.
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I doubt something like that is ever going to be forced. The schools wouldn't go for it.
 
Washington seems like a closing time pick up in a bar. Oregon, more like a parking lot pickup. Fat, ugly, but eager.

Fuck a Beaver, pet a Huskie.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Again, you're also using the worst possible examples from every conference. If you go to a 10 game conference schedule ,that means that teams like Rutgers are really only going to be able to schedule two of those games. The overwhelming majority of these games are going to equate to really good matchups.
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I could go on and on in that regard. I don't give a shit most years to see OSU play Wake Forest, Ga Tech, Duke, Colorado, Kansas, Arizona, Arizona State, Mizzou, Kentucky, Arkansas, Pitt, NC State, Syracuse, and the in-conference teams I've mentioned at least. On the flipside, there are a good numbers of G5's that I'd like to see them play before any of these P5s.
 
Across The Field said:
I could go on and on in that regard. I don't give a shit most years to see OSU play Wake Forest, Ga Tech, Duke, Colorado, Kansas, Arizona, Arizona State, Mizzou, Kentucky, Arkansas, Pitt, NC State, Syracuse, and the in-conference teams I've mentioned at least. On the flipside, there are a good numbers of G5's that I'd like to see them play before any of these P5s.
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The Ohio State & Bama's of the world would absolutely go right after these games too. They aren't stupid, they arent going to play 3 games against other Top 25 teams. They are going to scoop up those bottom rung P5 schools for 2 of the games and maybe play 1 game against a legit team OOC. If the ridiculous notion of forcing them to play only P5 schools ever actually happened, which it would not.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
TV controls everything now. The networks could force it.
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There is nothing in the network contracts that require teams to meet certain scheduling parameters and there never will be.

Scheduling is hard enough without having punitive measures attached so no one would ever agree to them.
 
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