I'm simply giving some perspective....to those who say the SEC is dominant top-to-bottom and say the Big Ten is weak.
2022 Revised Schedule
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I would rather play an extra B1G game than play against any other P5 conference opponent, and I'm sure the other schools agree based on their open cowardice as represented in these pathetic schedules
a quick peek at the SEC's non-con schedule in 2022:
Alabama at Texas
Cincinnati at Arkansas
Utah at Florida
Georgia vs. Oregon (in Atlanta, Ga.)
LSU vs. Florida State (in New Orleans, La.)
South Carolina at Clemson - happens every year, but much better than iowa vs iowa st (lol!)
Tennessee at Pitt
Miami FL at Texas A&M
this list excludes the lone SEC/B1G matchup - Penn St (blue blood that, like us, schedules a big non-con game every year) @ Auburn
also, since you're here, please tell your bald weirdo coach the 1940s weren't "50 years ago", and minnesota was never Alabama. thx.
“Fifty years ago, we were the Alabama of football. We were that." - PJ Fleck, May 11, 2018
also also - 4 of the B1G's 6 bowl wins were against teams that finished 6-7, a team without their QB/OC and arizona state. the 5th was against a 7-6 team. if that's not a cupcake schedule, I don't know what is! classic B1G fan leaving out these crucial details.
If you want to list the SEC 1-14 and the Big Ten 1-14 and I bet you would take the SEC team 12 or more times.
If we want to do tiers, let's do it! happy to provide the legwork:
| SEC Tier 1 Alabama Georgia Tier 2 Ole Miss Arkansas Kentucky Texas A&M Tier 3 Miss St Tennessee South Carolina Auburn Florida LSU Missouri Tier 4 Vandy | B1G Tier 1 Ohiost Mich Tier 2 Sparty Penn St Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Tier 3 Purdue Maryland Rutgers Illinois Nebraska Northwestern Tier 4 Indiana |
bolded the tiers in which the SEC slaughters the B1G. took a little longer than I'd have liked since I couldn't stop laughing.
an interesting note for anyone who actually thinks playing 9 B1G games makes the schedules unfair -- in 2021 the B1G had a whopping 7 teams win 6 or more conference games. the SEC had just 3, since, you know, every game is against a way better opponent than if they played in our league.
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The SEC has won 5 of the 8 CFP championships
The SEC has had a team in 7 of the 8 championship games
The SEC is the only conf to have 2 teams in the CFPs in the same year - this has happened 2 of 8 times
The SEC is the only conf to have both teams in the championship game - this has happened twice
There is no NCAA rule that states one has to play 9 conf games ... only scheduling 8 seems to be working out pretty well for the SEC
no gives a **** if your conferences 6th best team is better than another conferences 6th place team
Our conferences best team didn't even belong on the field with the SEC's best
the top end elite also creates bowl misalignments -- whereby you have the 3rd best SEC team playing the top Big 12 team - because their 1 and 2 teams are in the playoffs
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correction - our conference's best team got mercy ruled by the SEC runner-up
our conference's runner-up wasn't even good enough to be selected by its own league to play in the rose bowl (LMAO!), so instead it got beat by the SEC's 4th best on New Year's Day
No, King Kong....Texas, Florida State, Miami (FL), and Pittsburgh are not extra superior opponents. The SEC doesn't play tougher opponents than anyone else.
Indiana @ Cincinnati
Nebraska vs Oklahoma
Ohio State vs Notre Dame
Penn State @ Auburn
The Big Ten plays about the same strength of teams as the SEC and everyone else. Geez, pull your face out of the SEC's jock-strap.
Indiana @ Cincinnati
Nebraska vs Oklahoma
Ohio State vs Notre Dame
Penn State @ Auburn
The Big Ten plays about the same strength of teams as the SEC and everyone else. Geez, pull your face out of the SEC's jock-strap.
Original Nebraska 2022 Big 10 schedule:
September 24 at Rutgers
October 1 home Indiana
October 8 at Northwestern
October 15 at Michigan
October 22 home Minnesota
October 29 bye
November 5 at Wisconsin
November 12 home Purdue
November 19 home Illinois
November 25 at Ioway
When the Nebraska and Northwestern agreed to play in Dublin that assured a bye before the Michigan game..
Everyone said national powerhouses Penn State and Nebraska would come in and dominate in the Big Ten. And look what happened.
I think common sense is not taking any team in the league for granted
If you think commons sense tells us we beat Indiana and Illinois then I can’t help you.
they turned into typical (read: non-Ohio St) B1G programs:
zero meaningful accomplishments on the field, tons of "Ws" off it (money! strength of schedule! AP Poll!)
the B1G doesn't just breed losers. it seems to relish them.
once again you are complaining about where the byes are while being blind to the fact that we are the only team that gets to play more than 1 conf game coming off a bye week
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Talk about a non-fungible token!
Not entirely sure what I mean by that, but it's all the rage among the youths.
Reading thru posts like this make me concerned I am sharing the same roads with certain people when I drive.
SEC >>> Everyone else. By a mile. To try and argue otherwise seems silly.
SEC >>> Everyone else. By a mile. To try and argue otherwise seems silly.
No. Purdue should be favored at home against us until we prove otherwise. Zero U. should be favored against us no matter where we play. Northwestern kicks *** in even-numbered years. Tom Allen has already pinned your post to every locker in Bloomington, as has Noah Vedral. And Illinois has dominated us the last two years.
I'm hoping for it, but there's nothing about Nebraska football right now that says we "should be" anything other than what we are — a program that finds ways to **** up.
Well Nebraska doesn’t have anyone to play on September 24 because 5 other Big 10 teams have scheduled non conference games and Nebraska gets a bye for that fact…
The Big 10 had no choice in the matter..
Pgainey, never accorded to me Big 10 gave the Sept 24 game at Rutgers to Ioway, when they were suppose to play Minnesota in Minneapolis….
Well, aren’t NFTs virtual representations? This would be a physical representation of mens athletics at Neb
Most Big 10 schools just want W’s in non-con and not competition. I don’t blame them as the league schedule is tough with 9 games. That approach does not scream competitor but dudes be protecting their jobs.
I think there is far more risk than reward for a power 5 team in scheduling a marquee non conference game. A loss hurts you far more than a win helps
Disagree.
Staying undefeated gets you ranked. One loss to a good team. Hurts your chances down the road to get to a good bowl game.
We loss to 5 ranked teams and everyone thinks we suck.
It 8s good for ticket sales though
Sorry - I should have been clearer. We are in agreement
Schedule a pansy win rather than a 50/50 game against a quality opponent
The basic definition of fungible is able to replace or be replaced by another identical item, doesn't seemingly have to be virtual but that is obviously an emerging market, yeah, and one I don't care enough about to look into further.
