Slight Explanation of Your Conference Schedule

[GatOrlando]

Oregon to host Ohio State, visit Michigan in 2024. Big Ten announces football opponents for 2024-28

WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM

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Oregon will host Ohio State and travel to Michigan in its first year in the Big Ten.

 

The new Big Ten “Flex Protect XVIII” schedule is only a slight adjustment from the “Flex Protect Plus” schedule it announced in June, prior to the additions of Oregon and Washington. The Pacific Northwest rivalry was added to 11 other protected rivalries and trophy games and other opponents will rotate across the league.

UO and UW both host five Pac-12 games in 2023 and would’ve hosted four conference home games in 2024. With this year’s game in Seattle, Kenny said the “fair way” to decide which was going to begin its Big Ten tenure with five home games was to have Oregon host Washington next season, as anticipated, and for UO to begin with five home conference games.

Kenny said other formats to the nine-game schedule were reviewed, including the four West coast schools — Oregon, Washington, UCLA and USC — playing every year, but that doing so would’ve resulted in too many less frequent other matchups in the conference.

“We found in these integration processes over time that if play everybody more frequently and you do it more quickly right off the bat both home and away, then it helps you become more cohesive as a conference and start to learn each other’s traditions and what it means to walk into Autzen Stadium, or Husky Stadium, or the (LA) Coliseum, or the Rose Bowl and vice versa for the 14 current members of the Big Ten,” Kenny said. “One of the things that we did achieve with 100% accuracy was making sure that in 2023 and the start of the new schedule in 2024 there’s no games being played at the same location. Then in 2024 it starts anew and we make sure that you don’t have any back-to-back (at the same site). I think that was another priority for our ADs that we wanted to really make sure that we hit.”

[GatOrlando]

I saw a lot of Duck fans asking why there wasn't a quad protected portion to the schedule. Also why the uneven amount of conference games, along with the home/away layout. I found the article posted above to answer most of those. It's a difficult thing to try and make fair balanced schedules. You have time zones, different tier levels, and rivalries with history attached.

 

Is Oregon vs USC more important than Penn State vs Ohio State? Is it fair that Oregon's protected future existing B1G member is Wisconsin? While USC gets Ohio State or Michigan? Does Iowa want to play an offense like Washington that will put up forty ,when they can't possibly hope to score thirty points in three matchups? That type of thing just doesn't fly with Kirk Ferentz.

 

Meanwhile the SEC isn't going to be pressured into following the B1G's lead with 9 or 10 conference games. It may happen, but only because the league may become so large if further expansion occurs. But the SEC isn't going into the Mountain or Pacific time zones. It's gonna be a Clemson, North Carolina, Miami, Virginia, or Florida State.  

 

If it were up to Florida, Florida State would be left to join either the Big 12 or B1G. They refused the SEC three different times under Bowden. But if it's good for the SEC, they will add them, and Florida will fall in line. That's just how it operates . Texas A&M found out about that. Texas will discover it as well.

[TheRunningDuck]

On 10/5/2023 at 10:33 PM, GatOrlando said:

Oregon to host Ohio State, visit Michigan in 2024. Big Ten announces football opponents for 2024-28

WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM

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Oregon will host Ohio State and travel to Michigan in its first year in the Big Ten.

 

The new Big Ten “Flex Protect XVIII” schedule is only a slight adjustment from the “Flex Protect Plus” schedule it announced in June, prior to the additions of Oregon and Washington. The Pacific Northwest rivalry was added to 11 other protected rivalries and trophy games and other opponents will rotate across the league.

UO and UW both host five Pac-12 games in 2023 and would’ve hosted four conference home games in 2024. With this year’s game in Seattle, Kenny said the “fair way” to decide which was going to begin its Big Ten tenure with five home games was to have Oregon host Washington next season, as anticipated, and for UO to begin with five home conference games.

Kenny said other formats to the nine-game schedule were reviewed, including the four West coast schools — Oregon, Washington, UCLA and USC — playing every year, but that doing so would’ve resulted in too many less frequent other matchups in the conference.

“We found in these integration processes over time that if play everybody more frequently and you do it more quickly right off the bat both home and away, then it helps you become more cohesive as a conference and start to learn each other’s traditions and what it means to walk into Autzen Stadium, or Husky Stadium, or the (LA) Coliseum, or the Rose Bowl and vice versa for the 14 current members of the Big Ten,” Kenny said. “One of the things that we did achieve with 100% accuracy was making sure that in 2023 and the start of the new schedule in 2024 there’s no games being played at the same location. Then in 2024 it starts anew and we make sure that you don’t have any back-to-back (at the same site). I think that was another priority for our ADs that we wanted to really make sure that we hit.”

More like they want to pound a stake into the Pac 12 to make sure it is dead.

[Jon Joseph]

If the SEC doesn't man up, Mississippi State plays W, Michigan on Saturday, and plays 4 OOC and 8, not 9, conference games, then I fervently hope, especially coming off of this season, that the Playoff Committee will ding the SEC, and the ACC, for playing only 8 conference games. 

 

Yes, I am aware that Florida plays FSU every season, UGA plays Georgia Tech, South Carolina plays Clemson, and Kentucky plays Louisville, but USC plays 9 plus Notre Dame, Oregon plays 9, and another P4 opponent. 

 

BTW, using the latest AP Poll and adjusting for 2024 conference realignment, come 2024, 6 B1G teams would be in the 12-team field, MI, OH ST, Penn ST, UW, Oregon, and USC, and the SEC would have two teams in, Georgia and Texas. 

 

Post-realignment, I don't believe that the SEC CFB hegemony will ipso facto carry-on. NIL and the Portal are leveling the playing field. Recruiting-wise, the Pac-4 in the B1G will receive far more coverage and national exposure than when in the Pac-12 and 'covered' by Larry's Loser Network.

 

Prime tells us that he isn't hard to find. The Pac-4 will no longer be hard to find.

Edited October 6, 2023 by Jon Joseph

[GatOrlando]

On 10/6/2023 at 9:07 AM, Jon Joseph said:

If the SEC doesn't man up, Mississippi State plays W, Michigan on Saturday, and plays 4 OOC and 8, not 9, conference games, then I fervently hope, especially coming off of this season, that the Playoff Committee will ding the SEC, and the ACC, for playing only 8 conference games. 

 

Yes, I am aware that Florida plays FSU every season, UGA plays Georgia Tech, South Carolina plays Clemson, and Kentucky plays Louisville, but USC plays 9 plus Notre Dame, Oregon plays 9, and another P4 opponent. 

 

BTW, using the latest AP Poll and adjusting for 2024 conference realignment, come 2024, 6 B1G teams would be in the 12-team field, MI, OH ST, Penn ST, UW, Oregon, and USC, and the SEC would have two teams in, Georgia and Texas. 

 

Post-realignment, I don't believe that the SEC CFB hegemony will ipso facto carry-on. NIL and the Portal are leveling the playing field. Recruiting-wise, the Pac-4 in the B1G will receive far more coverage and national exposure than when in the Pac-12 and 'covered' by Larry's Loser Network.

 

Prime tells us that he isn't hard to find. The Pac-4 will no longer be hard to find.

 

The SEC isn't loaded with top fifty television markets. You have programs in small towns like Athens, Tuscaloosa, Gainesville. Texas brings the Austin market, but generally the SEC is happy to remain in the "region" of the SouthEast. Playing FBS schools has been looked down upon by the B1G for years. But the league doesn't care. It's still managed to drive the business of college athletics, despite it being "backwoods as heck" as a Wolverine, Buckeye, and Beaver fan have said on different occasions.

 

The SEC is where "specialty" coach positions were created. Under Nick Saban, the disgraced former coaches of America position was created. Consultants, I believe was his wording.

 

For the good, or bad. The SEC isn't afraid of the trends. Eventually the league will have to expand conference slates. But not due to trends the more "enlightened" B1G has set forth. The B1G has been very reactionary, take the whole 2020 season. The PAC went hand in hand with their sister conference. Only to retract, and decide it was an option to play. Something tells me it wasn't the health of the athlete they were concerned about. Ohio State has to get a waiver to play in their conference title due to that decision. Because Michigan couldn't find enough guys to get walloped, and pulled out of their rivalry game. Breaking a 90 year or so stretch of consecutive seasons where the two played.

 

For the record, I agree with you on the FBS thing. As do most the fans. It's an extra home game in November. A game to rest the starters, put up 70, and put in some backups. Of course it can also lead to a Georgia Southern win in the Swamp, that embarrasses the program.

Edited October 6, 2023 by GatOrlando

[GatOrlando]

On 10/6/2023 at 3:34 PM, GatOrlando said:

 

Don't respond to yourself again. 

Noted

 

 

Edited October 6, 2023 by GatOrlando

[GatOrlando]

On 10/6/2023 at 7:20 AM, TheRunningDuck said:

More like they want to pound a stake into the Pac 12 to make sure it is dead.

The B1G said in backrooms that they didn't want to be the ones responsible for the death of their sister conference though. Much like agreeing to the "Alliance" in 2021, in response to the treacherous SEC. Only to take USC and UCLA on as members less than a year later. It was those heathens in the Big 12 that killed the PAC.

 

The spokesman actually brought up some good points though. The B1G could have just taken in the last four PAC programs at basically no cost,  if they wanted to have reduced travel. It would be under one conference banner, but they could keep the East/West segregated. Would it really feel like a change then? You would get the occasional crossover, but it would basically just feel like what an O.O.C agreement would bring. But Michigan or Ohio State couldn't back out this time from going to Autzen.