How adding Maryland/Rutgers will affect the Gophers

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From the broader perspective, I think this is a bad move for the B1G Ten. But... When I look at it through my Maroon & Gold glasses...

  • It means we have a 100% chance of playing a beatable Illinois team every year
  • We will have a 66.6% chance of playing either Indiana, Purdue, Rutgers or Maryland (all historically beatable teams) and reduces the frequency with which we will play Ohio State.
  • It could help us recruit in the Mid-Atlantic states (Mason always picked up some good New Jersey guys - Khaliq and Pinnix come to mind).
  • It will be fun to road trip to Maryland for some crab cakes once every 12 years (New Jersey - not so much).

Are there any other benefits for the Gophers?
 


RodentRampage said:
Much depends on how the divisions are drawn up.
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ESPN is reporting that they hae been drawn up thusly:

Leaders

Ohio State
Wisconsin
Penn State
Indiana
Purdue
Maryland
Rutgers

Legends

Nebraska
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Northwestern
Iowa
Illinois
 

In my opinion, we HAVE to go to a 9-game schedule. And if the college football landscape changes enough in the coming years to make it feasible, I would love to see a 10-game conference schedule (assuming we go to 16 teams in the near future).
 

Okie said:
In my opinion, we HAVE to go to a 9-game schedule. And if the college football landscape changes enough in the coming years to make it feasible, I would love to see a 10-game conference schedule (assuming we go to 16 teams in the near future).
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From a totally homer point-of-view, how would a 9 or 10 game schedule benefit the Gophers?
 


Go Gophers Rah said:
From the broader perspective, I think this is a bad move for the B1G Ten. But... When I look at it through my Maroon & Gold glasses...

  • It means we have a 100% chance of playing a beatable Illinois team every year
  • We will have a 66.6% chance of playing either Indiana, Purdue, Rutgers or Maryland (all historically beatable teams) and reduces the frequency with which we will play Ohio State.
  • It could help us recruit in the Mid-Atlantic states (Mason always picked up some good New Jersey guys - Khaliq and Pinnix come to mind).
  • It will be fun to road trip to Maryland for some crab cakes once every 12 years (New Jersey - not so much).

Are there any other benefits for the Gophers?
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The Rutgers stadium is a quick train ride from Manhattan. I'm ok with that.
 

Go Gophers Rah said:
From a totally homer point-of-view, how would a 9 or 10 game schedule benefit the Gophers?
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If we stick with the 8-game schedule, the other division might as well just be another conference for how few times we would play those teams. Especially if we go to 16 teams, that would leave only ONE out-of-division game every single year using an 8-game schedule.
 

Go Gophers Rah said:
From the broader perspective, I think this is a bad move for the B1G Ten. But... When I look at it through my Maroon & Gold glasses...


[*]It means we have a 100% chance of playing a beatable Illinois team every year
[*]We will have a 66.6% chance of playing either Indiana, Purdue, Rutgers or Maryland (all historically beatable teams) and reduces the frequency with which we will play Ohio State.
[*]It could help us recruit in the Mid-Atlantic states (Mason always picked up some good New Jersey guys - Khaliq and Pinnix come to mind).
[*]It will be fun to road trip to Maryland for some crab cakes once every 12 years (New Jersey - not so much).


Are there any other benefits for the Gophers?
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I actually think this hurts our recruiting of NJ. Before we could entice recruits to leave home to play Big Ten football, now its coming to them.
 





Go Gophers Rah said:
ESPN is reporting that they hae been drawn up thusly:

Leaders

Ohio State
Wisconsin
Penn State
Indiana
Purdue
Maryland
Rutgers

Legends

Nebraska
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Northwestern
Iowa
Illinois
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Wow. Seems pretty lopsided. I'd switch MSU and Indiana in order to even it out a bit.
 

Now would be the perfect time to make the switch of Michigan and Wisconsin and let natural geography rule. Plus that would potentially get the Gophers an annual 'rivalry' game with Maryland. Let Wisky and OSU beat each other up; Iowa keeps Purdue; Mich - MSU; Rutgers - NW; Husker-ChildRapists; Illinois - Indiana. Perfect! (for us).
 

They'll go to 9 games, especially with the playoff coming and the conference champ getting the bid. No reason to pay a no name school a million bucks or so for a less than marquee match-up when you could make more by playing another conference school.
 




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