NFL Scheduling for College
I hate the Maryland and Rutgers weeks. It's like a bye week. Look at the MGoBoard: Softball, Social Media, Quintez Cephus (what a great name!), Haiku. Let's next discuss the best nose hair trimmers ranked in order.
I am sure many fans across the nation feel the same about 65-0 potential beat down matches.
Oh, do you know the Alabama has to play Mercer next week?
The NCAA needs to go immediately to NFL scheduling.
The best teams of last year have to play the best, the worst play the worst.
Alabama should have NOT been allowed to play Fresno, Colorado St, Vanderbilt and Mercer. Rather, OSU, USC, Penn State and Oklahoma.
We should be playing Stanford, LSU, South Florida and Tennesee.
Think of the unmeasurable amount of awesomenimity! Like 4 bowl games each year!
Let teams lock in 5-6 "rivals" and the rest are scheduled by power rankings. Michigan has a problem here because everyone is our "rival".
Let Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue, Illinois play each other. A least they will have a chance!
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Personally, I think the ideal conference size is 6-8 teams- enough to have a round-robin regular season (no playoff game necessary) and plenty of room for a varied non-conference schedule.
Having gone well beyond that, the next best hope is the conference can expand to 16 with 4 team pods (ideally Michigan's pod includes OSU and MSU), and rotate among the other pods from year to year, which would basically be a 6 year rotation.
Under the current setup, I would prefer to see 2 (or 4) cross division games slotted per year, with at least one (or more) of them based on matching previous year's standings, taking Home and Away schedule slots, and interval between previous meetings taken into consideration.
But honestly, I would like to see more non-conference games with teams from various conferences and parts of the country: at least one from the south, one from the west, one from the east, etc.
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Playing Rutgers is kind of fun because, you know, Joisy, plus they beat Michigan once and it will take like 20 wins to avenge that (would be more, but 78-0).
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Looking at the next two years there is a dispairty in strength of schedule between Michigan and its division rivals. Much of it has to do with the fact that Michigan almost always has the more difficult B1G West schedule (we always play Wisconsin) and typically plays a tougher non-conference schedule. PSU should be ashamed of many things including their ridiculous non-conference schedule - what a joke. Here are the non-conference and B1G West schedules for U-M, OSU, PSU and MSU:
Michigan
2018
@ Notre Dame, WMU, SMU
Nebraska, @NW, Wisconsin
2019
Middle Tennessee, Army, ND
@Wisconsin, Iowa, @Illinois
OSU
2018
Oregon State, TCU @ Jerry World, Tulane
Minn, @Purdue, Nebraska
2019
Florida Atlantic, Cincinnati, Miami (NTM)
@Neb, @NW, Wisconsin
PSU
2018
Appalacian State, @Pitt, Kent State
@Illionois, Iowa, Wisconsin
2019
Idaho, Buffalo, Pitt
Purdue, @iowa, @Minn
MSU
2018
Utah State, @Arizona State, CMU
NW, @Purdue, @Nebraska
2019
Tulsa, WMU, ASU
@NW, @Wisc, Illinois
November 10th, 2017 at 8:03 AM ^
PSU, on the other hand, is clearly creating cupcake matchups for their “preseason prep.” While ASU is a decent opponent most years, it is not an intimidating opponent like USC or Oregon.
November 10th, 2017 at 10:27 AM ^
Looked at future schedules yesterday to plan out future road trips and saw UM plays UW this year and next 3. How does that happen? Legacy of Dave still?
November 10th, 2017 at 11:51 PM ^
Every Big Ten team is assigned an annual opponent in the opposite division from 2016 through 2019. Series played each year during that cycle include Wisconsin-Michigan, Nebraska-Ohio State, Iowa-Penn State, Northwestern-Michigan State, Illinois-Rutgers, Minnesota-Maryland and Purdue-Indiana. Spanning that four-year scheduling cycle, every school will compete against two other cross-divisional opponents twice and four opponents once.
The B1G likes the Michigan-Wisconsin rivalry so much that they extended it for 2 more years:
The Big Ten announced its conference football schedules for 2020 and 2021 on Tuesday, and it looks like the league loves the Michigan-Wisconsin matchup.
The Wolverines and Badgers currently are “permanent rivals” as part of the Big Ten’s four-year rotation cycle of crossover games between the East and West divisions. That cycle starts anew in 2020 and the Big Ten has paired Michigan and Wisconsin at least for the first two years of rotation.
November 10th, 2017 at 9:48 AM ^
Alabama has not played a true OOC road game for 6 years. And likely won't for the next 5 years either (they have a neutral-site game scheduled for 4 of the next 5 Septembers already).
Upshot of all that is they're annually playing only 4 games in opposition stadiums.
That's about the only college scheduling rule change I'd like to see. Rule like above might reduce the number of neutral-site games. Though neutral-site games with true tradition (Ga/Fla and OU/Texas) could/should get protected - those schools perhaps only need to play 9 true road games every 4 years.
November 10th, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^