The B1G schedules run from 2024 through 2028. On paper, 2025 is OBD's most favorable schedule.

On3 acknowledges the Ducks have a relatively easy flight path for the remainder of the 2025 season. But you never know when a team with a new Skipper will show up and play like a Neu team. 😁

Rutgers is in Seattle Friday night, playing UW. An extra day to prepare for OBD's visit a week from Saturday. Trap?

For those who believe Miami is the real deal this season, Miami's path to the playoffs is far from daunting, and Miami, again on paper, has the chance to host its first playoff game and the championship game in its 'home' stadium.

Georgia Tech also has a relatively easy path to the ACC champ game, where GT could Wreck Miami's title plans. Please!

Nine SEC teams in the Top 25. How many finish 10-2 or better, and will any 3-loss teams be in the field in 2025-26?

Go Ducks! Put Out That Cig!

On3

Path to the College Football Playoff: Toughest and easies...

It's moving month in college football, as these next four weeks will help determine the real College Football Playoff contenders.

Right. Like strength of schedule all of a sudden matters?!

Wait till they all play 9 conference games each year.

Just win baby, just win!

21 minutes ago, Jon Joseph said:

The B1G schedules run from 2024 through 2028

Hopefully we will have to see the 2029 and beyond schedules to figure out when we get our first BIG loss.

1 hour ago, Steven A said:

Hopefully we will have to see the 2029 and beyond schedules to figure out when we get our first BIG loss.

B1G HQ is supposedly reviewing the schedules for every sport to determine whether east-west travel and vice versa can be lessened. But with four in the Pacific time zone and 14 in the Central and Eastern time zones, how much can be done to alleviate travel?

The first conference loss? Before 2029, take a look at 2027. 🤬 Get through this gauntlet without a loss, and OBD best be the PO No. 1 seed.

Road games vs. Baylor, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, UCLA, and UW.

Home vs. E. WA., Iowa, Purdue, Penn State, and Ohio State, and a team to replace Utah State, which had best be played at home to give OBD 7 home games and not in Corvallis.

With this schedule, an AQ PO with PO play-in games makes sense. Especially, if 3-loss teams with more difficult schedules are left out in 2026 for 2-loss teams with easier schedule strength. Ditto for seeding.

Will SOS matter this season? We'd better not see a G5 team ranked and seeded 9th because of a terrific RB and a close road loss vs. a P4 team. Boise's SOS in 2025 was in the mid-80s.

If 3-loss SEC teams are uniformly left out of the PO this season, and with nine conference games coming to the SEC next season, and to the ACC with less PO voting power than the SEC and B1G, we could see an AQ PO format as early as 2027.

Even with 9 conference games, in today's mega-conferences, you will never have balanced schedules.

When I saw the Ducks" schedule whenever it came out, I told my great Duck buddy that Oregon was in the catbird seat for playoffs 2025. My critique is not of the best half dozen of the B1G teams, but the other dozen seem like cupcakes to me. Hopefully NIL will help to improve the competitive balance of the conference over time.

6 hours ago, Steven A said:

Hopefully we will have to see the 2029 and beyond schedules to figure out when we get our first BIG loss.

Wow. Great zinger,--a B1G one!

He is the "KING" of the one-liners ...

33 minutes ago, Nevada Dawg said:

When I saw the Ducks" schedule whenever it came out, I told my great Duck buddy that Oregon was in the catbird seat for playoffs 2025. My critique is not of the best half dozen of the B1G teams, but the other dozen seem like cupcakes to me. Hopefully NIL will help to improve the competitive balance of the conference over time.

Friend ND, I hope Saturday finds your Dawgs victorious on The Plains and scoring the W in the South's longest rivalry.

The SEC scored OOC this season and IMO, deserves to have nine teams in the top 25. Yet, I'm kind of hoping that 3-loss SEC teams are PO benched again, and CFB goes to an AQ PO with PO play-in games contested on the last week of the regular season: Top 2 in the PO, No. 6 at 3, and No. 5 at No. 4.

The in-conference SOS in 16, 17, and 18 team conferences will never come close to equal.

Given the way I have seen Cig rebuild and strengthen the Hoosiers, I think Indiana will be one of the top teams in the B1G as long as he coaches there. I have no confidence in the Illinois coach BB stemming from his dismal showing in the SEC, but we'll see if he can keep the Illini meaningful and competitive. My biggest disappointment among recent B1G coaching changes is Luke Fickell--I thought the Badgers would be very competitive by now. I think that Washington could well ascend to become a meaningful opponent again, as could USC if they finally decide to can Lincoln Riley, and I regret to say that I am not at all confident about the longer term prospects for Nebraska--but could well be wrong here.

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