Crazy Football Scheduling Idea

u got ur games screwed up...theres no way in hell alabama would agree to go on the road two years in a row and its bull if osu gets both games home. in order to do it you owuld have to have both teams from the same conference at home/on the road in the same year. also i doubt this will work seeing as how would the teams agree on who would they have to face on the road and who they get in their home stadium.

in my opinion all of this is a mute point because michigan is locked in that redic deal with nd and they wouldnt want to kill themselves playing a big time school in addition to them. in reality i believe its more likely to see teams simular to utah and those middle of the road teams just come to michigan for the pay day and hopes of a victory. my hope is that we get boise and jsut pound hte piss out of them for havin that redic blue turf

what it wasn't embarrasing enoughto lose to the bottom of the MAC team but now we need to lose to upper SEC teams. I kow what you are looking for with this but let's get back on top of the B10 before we go out and pick a fight with teams like FL and ALA.

I don't get all this "let's play the best teams in the nation" stuff. In football, you're really not rewarded for a tough schedule if you lose those games. How does a Big 10 team make it to the MNC game? Just like tuos has in the past. Schedule cupcake ooc and dominate in the weak big 10. I'm all for playing against great teams if a loss won't kill your chances to win the MNC. Tuos's season was over after they loss to USC last year. You need to use the system to your advantage. Until they get a playoff, I say keep scheduling the cupcakes.

That's another reason why I believe there should be a playoff. If a team schedules and loses to two top 5 teams, they can still win the NC by winning the playoff. But in this system, the computer doesn't even consider them.

ACC/ Big Ten Challenge Basketball

Big Ten and Big East Challenge in Baseball

Conference Challenges in Football would work just chose a conference right now the Big Ten would be better suited playing the ACC rather than the SEC or Big 12. It would be a 2 year contract each conference would get half of the games at home. In the ACC case one of there teams would lose out because we only have 11 teams, but this would still work.

....there are no "probablies" about it - Michigan plays Notre Dame at home in 2009 and 2011, and at ND in 2010.

It would be nice to see upper-echelon teams play each other (à la Alabama-Clemson, Ohio State-Texas, etc.) non-conference. However it is implausible to conceive why a team like Michigan would schedule tough road OOC games, particularly now. The $ being one reason and going on the road to be probably whipped does not excite the program as much as one would think. Maybe in 5 years, but certainly not 2 or 3 (not that that could happen when the schedules are nearly filled.)

How is this better than just doing a home-away with another good school? The number of road games for each team is the same. It would probably be easier to get the usual matchups scheduled:

In 2010:
Florida at Michigan
Alabama at OSU

In 2011:
Michigan at Florida
OSU at Alabama

Until the rules are changed and there is a playoff, the Big Ten is currently the path of least resistance to the NC game. Since ND is a rivalry game, and they seem to play UM around .500 even though they suck, I think the current schedule is tough enough, and the rest of the schedule should be filled with cupcakes to prevent injuries and develop confidence in the young Wolverines.

If they schedule USC and lose, it costs them more than not scheduling them and beating an MAC team. When the BCS starts penalizing the Big Ten champions for not having a tough OOC schedule, then it will be time to schedule a tougher game. Since ND is great at scheduling teams that aren't that tough but look great to the computer, UM's SOS is more than good enough under the current system.

As Justin Boren or Charlie Weis would say, keep those cupcakes coming; I'm hungry.