Posted on 10/05/2023 1:53:21 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
The Big Ten Conference today announced league football opponents for the 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 football seasons. With the additions of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Oregon, University of Southern California (USC) and the University of Washington into the conference, 2024 will be the first season with 18 teams and no divisional format.
The 2024 Big Ten football season will debut the Flex Protect XVIII model, which features a combination of protected opponents and rotating opponents for universities. Each member institution will continue to play nine intraconference games per season, and teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – once home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.
Primary objectives considered included the following:
• Balance of annual travel by distance, regions of the conference, and time zones.
• Maintaining control and flexibility as the college football postseason format evolves, with the goal to create access for programs into an expanded College Football Playoff.
• Balance of historic competitiveness and recent competitive trends, including home/away balance of traditionally competitive schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigten.org ...
Is there tranny component? Or is that strictly non-contact sports.
What’s wrong with the Big Eighteen? It rolls right off the tongue.
You have a point. It’s just as good as the PAC 2, or as these youngsters hip on music would say, 2 PAC.
After he was shot in the groin, he was known as 1 PAC.
This seems to mean that the Big Ten of old has acquired the Pacific-10 of old which is now its subsidiary. My, my. When I was young the Rose Bowl was the Big Ten winner vs AAWU/Pac-8/10/12 winner and now the west coast teams have been acquired and play as in conference games.
Big Ten really screwed the proverbial pooch with this fustercluck ‘expansion’, imho.
There might be big bucks in it - for a short while - but I’d guess they’ll lose LOTS of folks who valued a bit of tradition.
sigh . . .
If OSU plays UMich only three times in five years (if I read that correctly), then this new plan is as moronic as the pinheads planning our society, economy, and nationhood in DC, Brussels, and Davos (maybe Beijing too).
OSU/UM are protected rivals. They will play every year. Iowa is the only team w/ 3 protected rivals. Penn State has none.
They DO secretly love each other.
Go Ducks, what a schedule in Autzen.
Purdue avoids Michigan 2 of 3 seasons? LOFL.
I’m so glad Oregon has gone to the Big. It’s seriously going to be more competitive.
FlNittany, did you notice that Penn State no longer has an artificial rival with MSU. That’s exactly with way coach Franklin wants it: Unrivaled!
Our trophy games are very special at Kinnick stadium, and on the road...
That forced rivalry never worked for me and I’m pretty sure the Land Grant trophy was a back handed insult to both schools.
It’s a shame our poor little brother, Rutgers, isn’t on the schedule every year so we can beat up on them.
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