Big Ten leadership has been garbage for years and their decisions continue to negatively affect the teams in the conf.
SEC staying at 8 conf game. The stupid, idiotic Big Ten staying at 9 plus a p5 out of conference. Big advantage SEC.
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SEC has always done this. Easiest way to inflate a false ranking and protect your elite 1 or 2 teams.
I dont care what the SEC does. I think the Big 10 should go to a 10 game schedule and have been saying it for a few years.
Teams that have 5 home games and 4 away games a year have and advantage during that season.
Big 10 conf games are more exciting and crucial than the Iowa ST game.
Go to 10 big 10 games, keep the money in the coffers, dump Iowa ST and play two planned warm up games. Even out the home and away game schedule
And then B10 teams are likely to have more losses than SEC counterparts, resulting in more SEC teams than B10 teams in the playoff on a regular basis. Brilliant!
One of the reasons the Big 10 TV package is worth more money than the SEC is because they have one more week of conference games instead of a week of games against WhoGivesaShit U. The SEC essentially hands the entire month of November to all the other Conferences since they have very few marquee matchups that month. Can't say doing that has hurt them at all though. With the expanded playoff, nobody from the Big 10 that deserves to go to the playoffs will be left out of them.
The SEC, way back in Bear Bryant's time, prevented Georgia and Alabama from playing each other so both would be highly ranked and get top bowl games. It would be like the BIG never allowing Michigan to play Ohio State. It turns out that when two teams play, one always loses, no matter how great that team might be.
The SEC has been gaming the system since Day 1. It will continue to do so. That much we know.
I opened this thread to post the same thing. We all like the big TV deal and the potential advantage it could give us once the schools pay the players directly, but this is one of the downsides of that.
Also the SEC reached out to ESPN about adding a 9th game but at the time ESPN didn’t have the budget for it and the SEC isn’t going to do this until they get paid for it.
At some point everyone is going to play 10 (eventually probably even 12) conference games, but they are keeping it for a bargaining chip in the TV negotiations and won’t do it until they get paid to do so.
B1G needs to lobby the play off committee to have a weighted system for playing quad 1 - P5 teams vs quad 2 - G5 teams, and quad 3 - FCS teams when considering strength of schedule and play off position if the SEC only plays 8 league games and three cream puffs, one P5 non con team.
Really??? The cream of the crop will make it to the playoffs, probably 3 teams at the most from the Big 10 in any year.
I think it is more important to have balanced, even schedules with the number of home and away games and face it Big 10 games are way more important and fun to watch.
Now if we played a different P5 opponent each year than ISU in the non-conf then that would be almost as good, as in beating an SEC team in the early season.
Once the ACC implodes and it will, anyone outside SEC and BT is irrelevant.
Until they both expand with those teams. All of this will evolve into a 60 team 2 league operation like a triple A NFL. It is what it is.
The SEC will almost certainly go to 9 conference games in 2026. They are busy working out how they are going to play nine (a 3-6 model with 3 permanent rivals and 6 rotating team or a different number). They are also hitting ESPN up for more money and some money to buy out the 4th non-conference games that they have scheduled that will need to be cancelled.
Which sounds pretty silly since Georgia is playing both Alabama and Texas the next two years, as well as Alabama playing Oklahoma. The SEC scheduling model has been in effect since 2012 when Missouri and Texas A&M joined. In 2012 you knew who the SEC teams were playing forever (or at least until expansion). Once they go to 9 games they will have a set scheduling model until the next expansion.
Not totally true, but not totally false.
The first 33 years of the SEC each team made their own schedule with the provision that you had to play 6 conference games to be eligible for the SEC title.
After Georgia Tech and Tulane left the conference (1964 and 1966). The SEC came up with their first scheduling model. At the time the most powerful teams in the SEC were Alabama, LSU and Ole Miss. Georgia, Florida and Tennessee were starting to build strong teams.
The first model was 5 permanent games every year and you would rotate the other 4 in 2 year increments.
Alabama, coached by Bear Bryant, had rivalries with Auburn and Tennessee. They also were playing Georgia, LSU, Vanderbilt and Mississippi State most every year. The Bear knew that he would get Auburn and Tennesse every year. He saw Florida as a potential powerhouse because of their rapid population growth (Air Conditioning). The State of Georgia was also growing and the Bulldogs had a young coach in Vince Dooley that had the Bulldogs moving up.
The Bear ended up with Auburn, Tennessee, LSU, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt as permanent rivals.
Part of the reason that he (and the conference) wasn't eager to match Georgia and the Tide was the lingering fall out over the so-called Saturday Evening Post/Wally Butts and Bear Bryant scandal. Feelings were still pretty hot over the incident and besides the Bear hated Atlanta.
If they truly consider strength of schedule it should be to our advantage. So maybe it is not a dumb thing by the B10, but rather the selection committee and ranking system needs to be a little more considerate of s of s.
Instead of 9th conf games we get matchups against Chattanooga or Samford 2nd to last week of the year. Very rare you get schools that play 2 P5. Georgia, FL and S.Carolina 3 who most likely do cause have P5 rivals in other conf. But most schedule 3 cupcakes.
South Carolina schedule will be ranks as the toughest schedule again. Probably #1
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I don't know. Florida's is pretty tough, especially the last 5 games. Georgia's is no cakewalk either.South Carolina schedule will be ranks as the toughest schedule again. Probably #1
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Florida has Miami, Central Florida, Texas A&M, Kentucky, LSU and Ole Miss at home. Georgia in Jacksonville. On the road they have Mississippi State, Tennessee and Texas.
The Gators last 5 games are:
Georgia (Jacksonville)
at Texas
LSU
Ole Miss
at Florida State.
Georgia has road games at Kentucky, Alabama, Texas and Ole Miss.
The Georgia home games of any count are Auburn, Mississippi State, Tennessee, and Georgia Tech
The Bulldogs also play neutral site games against Clemson (Atlanta) and Florida (Jacksonville).
It will be interesting to see the strength of schedule ratings as the season gets near but Michigan's is a killer. Hope they're enjoying that NC. Their new HC has walked into a buzz saw especially after being depleted on offense. They probably have 3 of the top 4 - being mentioned for the NC - on their schedule ..... OSU, Oregon and Texas (Georgia being the other). Washington and USC is also scheduled. Harbaugh is no dummy - he knew when to "get the he!! out of Dodge."South Carolina schedule will be ranks as the toughest schedule again. Probably #1
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