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Could you be more specific?
Considering what we've scheduled over the past few weeks, we wouldn't.Yeah, but how many teams would exercise that option to schedule better opponents?
Why should anyone? The negative impact of a loss at it relates to the playoffs is too much to risk it. My kudos to the teams that do play the big OOC games. Of course, if they just had the P5 champs auto qualify with three others teams, everyone would be free to play big time OOC games. I am always surprised that there is not money to be made in big time OOC games.Considering what we've scheduled over the past few weeks, we wouldn't.
Follow the MONEY!Was it just to create more content for the BTN? Why the change?
Was it just to create more content for the BTN? Why the change?
How's it create "more content"? If we went back to 8 games, there would be 7 more games to televise.
MONEY.
Only if all of the 7 lost conference games were replaced by a home game cupcake by each of the 14 teams. Which probably wouldn't happen.
I believe the reasons for the shift to 9 games was two fold:
1. To keep playing all conference teams regularly, for familiarity. It allowed the conference to set up a schedule that enabled every team to face every other team at least once over 3 years -- so that every player in college would get to play each of the conference teams in their career.* There was concerns, after the conference expanded to 14 teams with teams not playing each other regularly and weakening the conference bonds.
2. To increase higher quality games. Conference games are generally regarded as more valuable TV content than many/most non-conference games. With 14 teams, there is plenty of TV content, so the key to a bigger payday is having "better" games to offer to networks.
*yes, technically, you could get the "play ever team in a college career" thing with 8 conference games, but since Indiana/Purdue had to be locked as a constant cross-division game, one would need 9 total conference games to make it work.
It guarantees that the conference will have 7 more wins at the end of the season. More teams bowl eligible, more chance for playoffs.
How'd that work out last year?I thought we went to 9 conference games to demonstrate to the selection committee our strength of schedule. The BIG's thinking, it would eliminate OOC cupcake match up's that doesn't sit well with the power rankings/playoff committee's. Any how it's always about the CHINGA/money.