BTN's Tom Dienhart: Breaking down the Big Ten non-con sked; TCU good measuring stick

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We could have a great rivalry with Western Michigan because of our recruiting wars!
 

Ohio State will obliterate Virginia Tech. Through no fault of OSU, that's one of those nonconference games that looked good when it was scheduled, but the Hokies are on a downward trend. Buckeyes will win by at least 14. Va Tech offense is horrible.
 

Still longing for the days when the first comment about our out of conference schedule has nothing to do with how good of an FCS team one of our opponents is. Glad we have TCU, let's join the boys with multiple Power 5 foes on the schedule.
 

IOWA
Foes: Northern Iowa; Ball State; Iowa State; at Pitt
Power 5 foes: 2
Bowl teams: 2
FCS foes: 1
Combined record: 27-23
Comment: A first glance, this looks easy. But it’s a tougher slate than you think.
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I wish the U would schedule something like this. Where you can look forward to at least three of the four games.

Ideally, after the conference goes to nine games, the non-conference schedule would be something like:
vs. Decent Regional FCS School (NDSU, SDSU, South Dakota, Montana)
vs. Pick your favorite MAC School
vs. Decent Power 5 Team (TCU, Colorado, Washington, etc)

Might end up with 6 home games some year. So be it.
 


BJN said:
I wish the U would schedule something like this. Where you can look forward to at least three of the four games.

Ideally, after the conference goes to nine games, the non-conference schedule would be something like:
vs. Decent Regional FCS School (NDSU, SDSU, South Dakota, Montana)
vs. Pick your favorite MAC School
vs. Decent Power 5 Team (TCU, Colorado, Washington, etc)

Might end up with 6 home games some year. So be it.
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According to Barry Alvarez, the B1G is going to stop scheduling FCS teams.
http://www.footballscoop.com/news/8904-big-ten-agrees-to-no-longer-schedule-fcs-opponents

Hopefully this is true. It might be harder to schedule, but there should be enough FBS schools to fill out a schedule, especially after moving to a 9 game conference season.
 

WAGopher said:
According to Barry Alvarez, the B1G is going to stop scheduling FCS teams.
http://www.footballscoop.com/news/8904-big-ten-agrees-to-no-longer-schedule-fcs-opponents

Hopefully this is true. It might be harder to schedule, but there should be enough FBS schools to fill out a schedule, especially after moving to a 9 game conference season.
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Hopefully this has a domino effect. If more conferences start banning FCS games, then there will be a bigger race for the big conference schools to schedule games against various FBS midmajor programs. My dream is that demand exceeds supply in terms of the number of midmajor opponents available, and this results in the Power 5 being forced to schedule games against each other. A great system would be:
9 B1G games
0 FCS
At least one Power 5
At most 2 midmajors
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
Still longing for the days when the first comment about our out of conference schedule has nothing to do with how good of an FCS team one of our opponents is. Glad we have TCU, let's join the boys with multiple Power 5 foes on the schedule.
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We could just schedule them and then buy our way back out...
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
Hopefully this has a domino effect. If more conferences start banning FCS games, then there will be a bigger race for the big conference schools to schedule games against various FBS midmajor programs. My dream is that demand exceeds supply in terms of the number of midmajor opponents available, and this results in the Power 5 being forced to schedule games against each other. A great system would be:
9 B1G games
0 FCS
At least one Power 5
At most 2 midmajors
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Well if the Big 5 leave (and turn themselves into 4 conferences, which I think they will do - 65 teams right now), then you can run it like the NFL and schedule each team's non-conference games for the next year. And you can weight those schedules so that the better teams play the better teams from the other conferences. Anyway, it's a pipe dream, but would like to see it.
 



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