Complaint should be with OOC schedule - B10 schedule is representative.
Toughest crossover is Minnesota??? Throw in their putrid OOC schedule and it's pretty obvious the B1G 10 is trying to give them a route to the playoffs.
Is it Michigans fault that the league is in such shape that only two other teams are ranked?
I didn’t say they duck anyone, they have to play their division foes. If you take a longer look at the scheduling over say 4 or 5 years, they typically do not get scheduling against what would be highly ranked teams over consecutive weeks. OSU’s Oct schedule is not terribly daunting. I don’t consider MD top tier, Purdue and Wisconsin don’t look that strong thus far this year.
I am convinced this is why they re-jigger the system used to schedule every so often. If they stuck with a scheduling system then a harder schedule might pop up for one or both of the "owners" of the Big Ten. Cannot have that.. so.. yeah.. time to reconfigure.
It wasn't a complaint so much as a pointing out of the obvious.
Did Iowa jump conferences? Did I miss a realignment thread? Big schedule makers gave Rutgers the top two in the West, Wisconsin and Iowa. They gave Michigan- Purdue, Nebraska and Minnesota. It's so obvious that the B1G is trying to protect one of its upper echelon teams with a light cross over schedule.
Don’t play stupid. Camp Randall and Kinnick are notoriously tough venues to play at. Purdue is not. RU has been getting the football scheduling shaft since joining the conference. It is what it is. And with USC and UCLA being on B1G schedules for 2024, it proves these schedules don’t need to be made 4-5 years in advance as is often argued.
You cant complain about the crossovers - sometimes its easier and some years it’s harder. Last year we had Iowa and Nebraska at home, both bad and we lost both. 2021 we had Illinois and Northwestern, and lost to NW.
I think they should be more evenly distributed is all I’m saying. Purdue isn’t on our 2024 schedule either. That will be 11 seasons with RU only playing them twice in this east/west set up. Seems a bit uneven to me but whatever. Divisions end next year.
This may not go over big on this site but I think PSU beats Michigan in Happy Valley in a few weeks.
A rotation that's been changed every 4 years since we've been in the B1G. How exactly is that a consistent rotation? O and it's going to change again next year.
The opposite of Maryland. Easiest schedule in the conference top-to-bottom. Maybe in ALL P5 on the season. Sagarin had them at 203 going into yesterday. Here's their path to 4-0: Towson (FCS 1-3), Charlotte (1-3 only win vs SC State), UVA (0-4) and MSU (2-2 with wins over Richmond and CMU).
Fair point about it having to change next year, but once it’s set it’s again a rotation. They aren’t adjusting the schedules every year to give the top teams the easiest schedules.
I only said the Nebraska thing because the Michigan guy asked if they should play Nebraska every year because they are a blue blood.
