Visiting team between the two Conferences and new former PAC12 members are 6-14 to date.
Coast-to-Coast travel is proving to be a huge advantage for Home-Team based on experience to-date in B1G and ACC relative to former PAC12 teams.
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And it seems the newest members of the B1G have had to carry the biggest travel burden.
PSU owns one of the 3 visiting team B1G Ws (others are Indiana over UCLA and Minny over UCLA) - of the 3, PSU's far-and-away the most impressive (USC is 3-3 overall with all of their losses In-Conference, but PSU is only loss in Coliseum - Indy and scUM beat them at their place). Again, the visiting team is like 3-7 in the new former PAC12 team vs B1G games involving large travel... - duhO$U probably wins that game in Columbus.
Well the PAC members of the Big Ten will have 2-3 non West coast away trips a season. The old Big Ten will mostly only have 1 and sometimes 2 trips to the West coast any season. It’s just a numbers games with only 4/18 on the West Coast.
I guess they knew what they were agreeing too. Still, it is bound to take a toll on a team.
I am hoping that Stanford gets in at some point to create more of a western bloc. The western contingent needs to schedule a lot of mwc and pac teams ooc to lessen travel burdens. I have to agree with a few others here on the board that the west coast teams make this a more dynamic and exciting conference. It’s far better vs the old setup of east domination over the west, and the west mostly consisted of 3 yards and a cloud of dust type offenses.
Just to clarify a bit - the PAC schools will have 2-4 non-West Coast conference away trips every season. 3 in most seasons but more likely 4 than 2. This travel could have been lessened a bit if they would have made all four West Coast teams permanent games against the other 3 teams (they only set UCLA/USC and Washington/Oregon every year) which could have capped the travel at 3 games each season but alas they did not do so.
For the other 14 Big Ten teams, it should be only 1 trip west each year except a very rare 2 trips in a season - would average out to that only happening once every 17 years for PSU with no locked in games and less frequently for everyone else. That being said, Purdue doesn't have a west coast trip this season so that means they are more likely to have 2 trips in a future year. I looked through all the schedules released (through 2028) and there are no cases of a team having to travel west 2 times in any of them.
