Making the Big Ten great again.

[Thus Spake Mainer]

My eyes glazed over after the first couple of pages, the math or stats or whatever Nate is proposing is a little hard to follow.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/make-college-football-great-again/

 

[LionJim]

My eyes glazed over after the first couple of pages, the math or stats or whatever Nate is proposing is a little hard to follow.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/make-college-football-great-again/

Saw it. He used the B1G only as an example, but it's interesting.

 

[AWS1022]

My eyes glazed over after the first couple of pages, the math or stats or whatever Nate is proposing is a little hard to follow.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/make-college-football-great-again/

As far as fixing the Big 10, wouldn't it be easier to just realign the divisions into something a little more equitable instead of having four of the five best programs in one division? Just a thought.

 

[NedFromYork]

Get Oklahoma for the B1G West, and somehow get Virginia for the B1G East, not for the program, but for the recruiting area. Going to be tough to pull anyone from the ACC now that it looks stable.

 

[raleighnclion]

As far as fixing the Big 10, wouldn't it be easier to just realign the divisions into something a little more equitable instead of having four of the five best programs in one division? Just a thought.

Yes, it would.
Someone at work was discussing this with me yesterday. I didn't read the article, but it seemed like its main points were to eliminate conference championship games, and load things up to give the middling and low teams a much better chance of doing well. As it was explained to me, the normal 'good' teams always play each other and the Buttgers' of the world also play each other. Then if one of the shitty teams has a good record, they then have to play one or two good teams in the conference.
If that's what it is, it's completely stupid. It's a welfare system for middling/bottom feeders.
Let's also forget about the challenges trying to plan for going to a game when you don't know who you will be playing the last X weeks of the season.

 

[gogolion]

I like the concept, but I'm sure it will never happen.

 

[NewEra 2014]

It seems as though the more practical way to do this might be to realign the divisions every offseason to balance the strength of schedules. Unfortunately for the BIG, that might mean splitting up OSU and Michigan every so often.

Another way to do it would be to eliminate divisions and then set schedules based on the previous season's records. You could make the top teams' schedules the toughest, and Rutgres schedule the easiest.

At the end of the season, the top 2 teams go to the BIG championship game, and then--get this--the winner of the BIG championship game goes to the college football playoff. So that the BIG championship game effectively becomes a first-round playoff game. LIke it already should be.

 

[JR4PSU]

My eyes glazed over after the first couple of pages, the math or stats or whatever Nate is proposing is a little hard to follow.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/make-college-football-great-again/

It's an interesting theory. I like it based on it's ability to create meaningful games and also produce the champion without and championship game.

However, what I don't like about it is the unpredictability of the match-ups after week 4. For the fans, mostly the away team fans, it creates an impossible situation for planning purposes. The away teams would likely put fewer butts in seats in this scenario.

But I am intrigued.

 

[ILLINOISLION]

Great AGAIN?

Sorry, it's NEVER been GREAT!

 

[Lion84]

Watching Coward and he is debating the best conference - SEC or Big 10 - leaning towards Big10 and the coaches pictured representing the conferences are Saban/Urby/Hairball and out very own Coach Franklin - getting some respect finally. Chryst should be there instead of Hairball though.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Watching Coward and he is debating the best conference - SEC or Big 10 - leaning towards Big10 and the coaches pictured representing the conferences are Saban/Urby/Hairball and out very own Coach Franklin - getting some respect finally. Chryst should be there instead of Hairball though.

Listening to Sirius XM radio on their college sports stations (it's really just college football) and they were talking about how surprised they were JT Barrett was returning. They mentioned he'll be in a tough draft class next year with the likes of Darnold and McSorley (and others). Stunned to hear that actually.

 

[Nit16]

Get Oklahoma for the B1G West, and somehow get Virginia for the B1G East, not for the program, but for the recruiting area. Going to be tough to pull anyone from the ACC now that it looks stable.

No one is leaving the ACC. The GOR alone makes that a legal battle at best. Really comes down to Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas IMO. Two of those three would be ok with me.

 

[AWS1022]

Listening to Sirius XM radio on their college sports stations (it's really just college football) and they were talking about how surprised they were JT Barrett was returning. They mentioned he'll be in a tough draft class next year with the likes of Darnold and McSorley (and others). Stunned to hear that actually.

My guess is McSorley will be back for his senior year. He is not the prototypical NFL QB.

 

[BobPSU92]

Do we want the b1g to be great? Is that the goal here? Consider the following. Does jim delany want Penn State to be great?

 

[NICNEM_PSU80]

Add Texas and ND or Oklahoma. That's where the money is. My next choice believe it or not is BC to pick up the Boston Market.

Then realign the teams for Balance. That said If ND or Oklahoma join with Texas and are added to the West we are much closer to balance.

 

[demlion]

Listening to Sirius XM radio on their college sports stations (it's really just college football) and they were talking about how surprised they were JT Barrett was returning. They mentioned he'll be in a tough draft class next year with the likes of Darnold and McSorley (and others). Stunned to hear that actually.

Zero chance JT plays QB in the pros.

 

[artsandletters]

My eyes glazed over after the first couple of pages, the math or stats or whatever Nate is proposing is a little hard to follow.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/make-college-football-great-again/

I stopped looking at 538 and paying attention to Nate as of this past Nov. 9.