B1G Football Conference Schedules Thru 2025

Gene Smith, the OSU AD, set it up so that Michigan would play Wisconsin for 6 years straight and then Nebraska for 6 years straight. OSU got to play Nebraska for 6 years straight while we were playing Wisconsin. Now Nebraska gets Scott Frost and so that becomes tougher, while OSU gets Wisconsin. A classic example of Dave Brandon malfeasance/incompetence. We discussed it on this thread last season: https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/why-do-we-play-wisconsin-least-6-years-straight

God dammit! I didn't want Nebraska! If they manage to beat us I'll never hear the end of it at work! It took Mike Riley happening for them to forget about the fiasco that was the 2013 game!

OSU sees a lot of Wisconsin, so that's good.

MSU and PSU on the other hand, pretty much skate by with the likes of Illinois.

I actually like the 9 game conference schedule. The onus should be pushing the ACC & SEC to get on board with the rest of the leagues...not conform to their silly logic.

This is driven by TV and cash money. This has nothing to do with “Bo”. It’s not 1974 anymore. It is odd I have to remind a college aged person of this but whatever. Plus, Jim Hackett would like a word. 

Your grudge against Warde continues unabated. It's kinda bizarre, since 18 months ago it centered around the basketball program (which, uh, won two B1G tournaments and made the national final. Remember when everyone was hopping mad that Warde followed through on the team's wishes to go ahead and play Illinois in practice uniforms without moving the game in the first round? That tournament sure was a disaster) and the hockey program (made the Frozen Four in Mel's first year). 

Now that the B1G issues more dumb schedules, it must be Warde's fault because... reasons.

I mean, I get the envy looking at other athletic departments: Who wouldn't want the AD of MSU, OSU, Maryland, Minnesota, or Rutgers right now? But Warde is who we have, and he's doing just fine. 

I don't know why people complain so much about OSU/MSU being home/away in the same year. 

Based on history and program infrastructure for sustained success there are three teams in the East which will be tough games almost every year. They are in order: OSU, PSU, MSU. With three teams, you are going to have to play two at home/away every year. I would much rather OSU and MSU be paired up than OSU and PSU. In general PSU will field tougher teams than MSU. Why would you want PSU and OSU on the road in the same year?

And it's the exact same opponents and locations as the 2018 schedule.

Nebraska, Wisconsin, @Northwestern

/s 

Yeah, the "play every year for 6 years during the 2022-2027 era" match-ups are not what I expected.

The 2016-2021 cross-division match-ups are (besides the Bucket Game):

(1,2,3) U-M vs Wisconsin, OSU vs Nebraska, PSU vs Iowa

(4,5,6) MSU v Northwestern, Maryland v Minnesota, Rutgers v Illinois.

I expected for 2022-2027, they'd keep those 2 groups of 3, and rotate the western division foes (e.g, U-M vs. Nebraska, OSU v Iowa, PSU v Wisky, or U-M v Iowa, OSU v Wisky, PSU v Nebraska).

Instead, they seem to have 3 groups of 2, and then flip-flopped them.  Those 3 groups of 2 being:

(1,2) U-M v Wisconsin, OSU v Nebraska

(3,4) PSU v Iowa, Rutgers v Illinois

(5,6) MSU v Northwestern, Maryland v Minnesota.

What the B1G did here for 2022-2027 is rather unexpected.  IMO.

OSU has to play Wisconsin.  One of these years, Wiscy is going to lay an Iowa-esque 52 point beating on OSU.

Every player that stays 4 years will play every school at least twice. And In every stadium as well. 

So how can we screw Michigan the next 10 years?

-Jim Delaney

This is further proof for why 14 teams is too many to have in a conference.  

Playing Minnesota for the little brown jug once over an 8 year span doesn't feel right, lopsided history be damned.  And waiting three years to get revenge on a cross division opponent sucks too, which we currently have with Iowa.  Long histories with teams becoming once in a while opponents, I just hate it.  

A bigger price to pay for adding Maryland and Rutgers.   

Maybe I'll get negative votes for this.  People here say "Warde Manuel needs to fix this."  But they don't answer the question of "how can he fix it?"

Flipping the location of MSU's games with U-M and Indiana is the obvious solution.  That puts every other B1G East school on a rotation of "1 away and 1 home game with U-M/OSU per year."

But why would IU and MSU say "yes" to that?  MSU isn't going to visit AA twice without a fight.  And from what I've read on Indiana boards, they like having Purdue at home one year and OSU/U-M at home the other year.  It helps with their ticket sales. 

Until there's a solution that also garners other affected schools' support, it is what it is.  U-M, for whatever reason, went along with the 2 visits to East Lansing.  That's going to be very very hard to undo.