2022 B1G Composite Football Schedule
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Observations:
EAST DIVISION
- Michigan has only 4 road games; two of them are Indiana & Rutgers. Having a bye between PSU & MSU is a nice spot.
- MSU has a stretch from games 3 through 8 that will define their season: @ Washington, Minn, @ Maryland, OSU & Wisc in consecutive weeks, and then after a bye they play @ Michigan. Going 2-4 in that stretch is not unrealistic. If they go 4-2 in that stretch, they’re probably in a New Year’s Day bowl.
- Ohio St has Wisconsin & Iowa at home, MSU & PSU on the road, all 4 in a 5-game stretch in the middle of the season that will define OSU’s narrative entering The Game.
- PSU has a sneaky tough opener @ Purdue. They’re @ Michigan and host OSU with a potential trap game of Minnesota in between.
- Poor November Maryland…@ Wisc, @ PSU and host OSU in consecutive weeks in November. They may have bowl eligibility on the line when finishing the season against Rutgers.
- Indiana could have 3 or 4, or even as many as 5 wins entering their bye (after 8 games). And then they will finish with 3 or 4, or even as many as 5 wins.
- Rutgers had better beat Indiana…or they just might be winless in B1G play. (No Illinois or NW on their schedule.)
- There was a thread earlier in the week that October games will go a long way in determining the East Division winner. To that point, look at the first 3 weeks of November and how the schedule is stacked for Rutgers, Maryland & Indiana against a ton of league powers, whereas the 4 top teams in the East have a ton of winnable games those same 3 weeks.
WEST DIVISION
Contrary to the East Division, the West will be won in November:
- Iowa’s November opponents: @ Purdue, Wisc, @ Minn, Neb.
- Minnesota’s November opponents include @ Neb, Iowa, @ Wisc
- Nebraska’s November opponents: Minn, @ Mich, Wisc, @ Iowa
- Wisconsin’s November opponents include @ Iowa, @ Neb, Minn
The one potential contender barely mentioned in those lists? Purdue. If they get through their first 6 B1G games with 2, or maybe even 3 losses, they could still sneak their way in by finishing @ Ill, NW, @ Ind while the other 4 are beating up each other.
- Wisconsin has 5 road games, 4 of them are @ OSU, @ MSU, @ Iowa, @ Nebraska. Yikes. Add in home games against Purdue and Minnesota and the Badgers could lose 3, even 4 conference games.
- Nebraska could start 3-0 in conference play, yet still struggle to be bowl eligible.
- In addition to Iowa’s November schedule listed above, they also play Michigan & @ OSU in October. Yikes also.
- It’s distinctly possible that the West could have 5 teams between 6-3 & 4-5. You name the West Division team that will go 7-2!
(And here comes the MGoCommenter who links to a different schedule because he likes the purdy colors in… 3 … 2 …)
August 24th, 2022 at 10:41 PM ^
A big fan of line 33, lol…
August 25th, 2022 at 6:46 AM ^
Thought you were counting the lines in the post. I was thinking what software counts out the lines, surely you didn’t.
August 25th, 2022 at 9:42 AM ^
Jonesie, thanks for pointing that out… it’s the only game with a prediction from the conference.
August 25th, 2022 at 1:35 PM ^
That is really funny.
Big time bulletin board material for...I can't even finish that joke.
August 24th, 2022 at 11:36 PM ^
Is MSU's schedule really as difficult as people are making it out to be? Yes, going to Seattle would normally be very tough. But Washington is coming off a trainwreck season and they are in year one of a brand new coach. Maryland is getting respect but their seasons tend to go off the rails very quickly. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio State ALL travel to East Lansing. And for the second straight season, they have a bye week before playing Michigan. (Fortunately we also have that weekend off but this trend they have of getting bye weeks before the Michigan game is annoying.)
August 25th, 2022 at 4:34 AM ^
Washington returns some talent and adds Penix who is familiar with MSU’s defense. UW has talent at WR.
That game should be an excellent test of MSU’s progress.
August 25th, 2022 at 5:56 AM ^
Thought the same about Miami last year. Sparty has lucked into playing once prestigious P5 teams who are a shell of their former selves two years in a row now.
August 25th, 2022 at 9:37 AM ^
MSU will be in for trouble with Maryland if their pass defense isn't drastically better than it was last year. I'm not seeing anything to indicate that it will be.
Maryland will likely be able to put up a decent amount of points on them. Could be a high scoring game.
August 25th, 2022 at 12:34 AM ^
(And here comes the MGoCommenter who links to a different schedule because he likes the purdy colors in… 3 … 2 …)
Yeah, damn right I like the pretty version with the colors and the logos.
August 25th, 2022 at 7:37 AM ^
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August 25th, 2022 at 8:48 AM ^
It's not pretty though. That osu logo is like a shit stain on a quilt.
August 25th, 2022 at 10:59 AM ^
Me wondering if that's why Amber Heard did what she did...
August 25th, 2022 at 1:13 AM ^
I pick Minnesota to win the west mostly.becsude they miss Michigan and Ohio
August 25th, 2022 at 9:46 AM ^
Stare into the eyes of Pete and say that.
October 1st Boiler at MN for the West Championship drivers seat. Neither team loses (2) conference games on their respective schedule. Purdue is on the road however early enough in season to get good MN weather for that passing attack.
I like Boiler and I do not want to anger Pete.
August 25th, 2022 at 1:13 PM ^
Creepy. I have long had a soft spot for Purdue. Because trains. I am an overgrown child.
But i'd love for a Minny-Michigan BTCG - the Biggest Little Brown Jug since Pearl Harbor! (The 1941 Jug de facto decided the Big Ten, the 1940 Jug de facto decided the natty!)
August 25th, 2022 at 3:32 AM ^
+1 Chuck because I like you and you're the only one afraid of Purdue! I kid, nice analysis.
August 25th, 2022 at 6:50 AM ^
I just looked up who 12 is. He has since transferred. Now plays at LSU according to wiki.
August 25th, 2022 at 7:37 AM ^
Yes. That is Sevyn Banks as a freshman, who later became a starter.
His greatest claim to fame as a Buckeye was returning a blocked punt for a TD in a certain game against a certain team later the same season as that clip.
August 25th, 2022 at 10:13 AM ^
Was that the same blocked punt where an OSU player literally catches the ball in the air, in stride, as he just waltzes to the end zone?
Shudders.......
I think I remember turning that game off around the start of the fourth quarter and just started cleaning the house, to get my mind on literally anything else.
That play, coupled with JK Dobbins fumbling the ball to himself in stride in 2019 and gashing Michigan for what must've easily been a 30-35 yard gain, was a microcosm of the rivalry for the last two decades, where it just seemed like OSU got every lucky break, every lucky bounce, every lucky everything.
August 25th, 2022 at 2:17 PM ^
He did catch the ball in the air while running in stride because, well, he was running. And running toward the ball.
I didn't notice that it was 3/4 time so it might not have been a waltz, I kind of thought of it more like a foxtrot into the endzone.
August 25th, 2022 at 9:10 AM ^
It looks like only two B1G teams have a “6-6” home / away schedule. Those two teams are Purdue and Rutgers.
Two teams are clearly “8-4” with home / away - those two teams are Michigan and the Bucks.
It’s unclear tome whether Nebraska or Northwestern are the home team for the Game 0 game in Ireland. If it’s Nebraska, then they have 8 home games this season as well.
August 25th, 2022 at 9:48 AM ^
Northwestern must have given up a home game to go to Ireland. Thus, they only have 3 conference home games.
They might draw a bigger crowd in Ireland than they would in their own stadium.
August 25th, 2022 at 10:10 AM ^
Chuck, I have been to many games at Northwestern, and - my take is - a lot of “away” teams travel well to Evanston. It’s less than ten miles from downtown Chicago to Ryan Field - it’s a decent place to tailgate, tickets are reasonable - and, there’s plenty to do in addition to the game.
It will be interesting to see the crowd and how they draw. Who knows, maybe Ted Lasso will make an appearance.
August 25th, 2022 at 11:34 AM ^
Northwestern absolutely gave away the home game. First of all, the game was at Nebraska last year, and Northwestern is listed in the home team slot (i.e. second) for that matchup. But more importantly, there is no way in hell that Nebraska, with its 382 game home sellout streak, would give up a home conference game in order to play in London f***ing England...
August 25th, 2022 at 11:44 AM ^
The game is in Dublin. In Ireland. A whole different capital city in a whole different country.
August 25th, 2022 at 11:49 AM ^
Dublin f***ing Ireland. Different city, same result. No way Nebraska is giving up a home game to play there.
August 25th, 2022 at 9:13 AM ^
As a Michigan fan, it feels good to have a typical Ohio State quality schedule
August 25th, 2022 at 9:50 AM ^
Pfft! Please...
Do your research.
August 25th, 2022 at 12:58 PM ^
I hate that I often agree with Chuck, but he's again right. Notre Dame, Oregon, 2017 OU. I think the 2 years we played ND recently the Buckeyes had a softer schedule than us - but otherwise, in '21, '22 and '23, we're the ones playing the cake schedule (altho Washington sucking wasn't really our fault)
August 25th, 2022 at 1:42 PM ^
I did do the research and you were pretty quick to point out lots of nuances.
August 25th, 2022 at 2:29 PM ^
Ohio St looks to schedule one marquee opponent each season.
2022-23: ND
2020-21: Scheduled home & home w/ Oregon (2020 was cancelled)
2018-19: Scheduled home & home w/ TCU. Games were scheduled when TCU was really good. TCU weaseled out of the Columbus portion of the home & home in 2019 and turned it into a one-off at a "neutral site" in JerryWorld in 2018. In 2019, OSU was left scrambling for a fill-in and was the only year in recent decades that they didn't have a marquee non-conference matchup.
2016-17: Okla-freaking-homa. (BTW, this game basically served as a CFP quarterfinal matchup. The winner each year went to the CFP and the loser each year narrowly missed the CFP and arguably *would* have made the CFP had the result been switched.)
2014-15: VaTech
2012-13: Cal. Okay, so Cal was down but the series was scheduled when Tedford was the PAC10's top challenger for Carroll's USC.
2010-11: Miami. YTM.
2008-09: USC
2007: Washington
2005-06: Texas
2003-04: NC State. '03 was with Philip Rivers.
Future schedules:
2024: Washington
2025: Washington & Texas
2026: Texas
2027-28: Alabama
2030-31: Georgia
2032-33: Oregon
...now, we'll see if half of those future games actually happen, but that's what's on the schedule.
/nuances
August 25th, 2022 at 10:11 AM ^
Iowa will win at least 8 games, but could easily get 10 and has an outside shot at 11 if they split with UM/OSU.
Purdue has the schedule set up to contend for the division if they can get some help from the East against Iowa and Wisconsin.
Safe money is on Wisconsin followed by Iowa, but I think the outside shot of Purdue (currently +600 bovada) looks the most tempting. I will not jinx Purdue and bet it though.
August 25th, 2022 at 11:07 AM ^
Do you think Iowa can create enough offense?
August 25th, 2022 at 2:32 PM ^
Sometimes Iowa's defense creates enough offense.
August 25th, 2022 at 8:38 PM ^
I just want Michigan to own the Shoe down south there.