Big Ten Announces 2020-21 Conference Football Schedules
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Why do we play Iowa every stinkin' year? It'd be nice to see some other B1G West teams more often.
The schedules have a 6 year rotation. We play Iowa from 2016-2021 every year, alternating home and away. Starting in 2022, we'll pick up another Big Ten West team to play every year for 6 years (if they stick to trying to pair up "strong" teams like they have said they would do, we should get Wisconsin or Nebraska).
During each 6 year block, we play each of the other 6 Big Ten West teams twice (once home, once away).
They couldn't help themselves giving us Michigan and OSU back to back, again, in 2021. I looked at 2020 and said "oh, a change in pattern" only to see it the next season.
The last time we started the season with a road conference game was 1994. That year went well.
Can someone explain both the logic and benefit of scheduling in-conference games the first week of the season? I can see waiting until week 2 or 3, but week 1?
Perhaps it's just me, but this smells of Barry Alvarez influencing the B1G Schedulers. I couldn't help but notice that Wisky has arranged themselves as a B1G Week 1 "home opener" in 2020 and 2021. How convenient......
Perhaps it's just me, but this smells of Barry Alvarez influencing the B1G Schedulers. I couldn't help but notice that Wisky has arranged themselves as a B1G Week 1 "home opener" in 2020 and 2021. How convenient......
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Looks like they have scheduled 4 in-conference games for the opening weekends those seasons. My guess is that that was driven by BTN/FSN to get a couple of higher-profile games on the TV schedule right off the bat.
PSU - Wisconsin is the best pairing of the B1G games scheduled for opening weekend. Benefit is possibly to increase viewership for the conference games over Labor Day weekend.
That's what you get when you don't schedule your non-conference games in a timely fashion.
Somebody doesn't like the Terps and Sparty much. Maryland gets PSU, Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State to close out 2021. Ouch. Sparty gets Nebraska, then 3 weeks later at Michigan, Penn State at home and at Ohio State. They're also playing at Miami FL the week before playing Nebraska.
We'll serve you a nice breakfast before the dreaded 11AM kickoff!
Any guesses which two teams will fill out the 2020 schedule and what one team will round out 2021? All will need to be home games to get the seven the AD wants unless a neutral site game is lined up with a payout which meets or exceeds the revenue for a home game.
There are 10 schools with permanent rivalry matchups in the final week. Indiana-Purdue, Ohio State-Michigan, Iowa-Nebraska, Illinois-Northwestern, Minnesota-Wisconsin.
There are 4 schools without a permanent final game. Michigan State, Maryland, Penn State, Rutgers. We rotate between the other 3 every two years. Last couple it was MSU. This year and next year its Maryland. 2020-2021 it's Rutgers.
I'd really rather just continue ending with Michigan State like we were doing. This rotating our last game with RU, MD, MSU is goofy. Maybe we could request to start conference play with MD and end with MSU. Let MD and RU play each other last game and develop a last game rivalry it would be good for both schools.
Actually, it looks like they'll start rotating Minnesota-Wisconsin-Iowa-Nebraska the same way they've already started rotating Penn State-Rutgers-Michigan State-Maryland. Ohio State/Michigan, Illinois/Northwestern, and Indiana/Purdue are remaining season-ending games.
Thanks....
I was referring to the current setup which has us playing Iowa six years in a row.
Good. Means I can hop on the Northeast Corridor line and head to New Brumphus in 45 minutes and not have to deal with the knucklehead students. Just the other knucklehead fans.
