Crazy Football Scheduling Idea
Have two pairs of teams from two conferences ever collaborated on a set of four games, home and away, with four teams, over two years? Each conf. has two home and two away, but each team is limited to a single game against each ooc opponent.
As an example, say you have Michigan and OSU from the Big Ten, and Florida and Alabama from the SEC.
In 2010:
Michigan at Florida
OSU at Alabama
In 2011:
Florida at OSU
Alabama at Michigan
This would give more variety in the non-conference schedule, and somewhat limit the number of road games for all big teams. In the above scenario, Michigan would prob. have the Notre Dame home game in 2010 and the ND road game in 2011. This allows Michigan (and the other three schools) to limit to a single NC road game over a two year period, improves the matchups for fan interest, and allows each team to keep the whole gate for their home game.
There are probably a ton of reasons this is impractical and won't happen, but I am one of the many who wish that Michigan played someone other than MAC teams and the like in the non-conf. games. And while I have enjoyed going to ND games, I'd like to see some games against other worthy ooc opponents.
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
Yeah, and blue jerseys on the blue turf. Gives me a headache... they must be punished
You're right that this is a moot point. Just wish to see some occasional decent non-conf games.
moot point, not mute
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March 10th, 2009 at 12:51 PM ^
"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 2010:
Michigan at Florida
OSU at Alabama
In 2011:
Florida at OSU
Alabama at Michigan
In the above example all teams play one home game and one away game.
Alabama is AT Michigan and HOME against Ohio State thus not playing away games two years in a row.
Ohio State is AT Alabama and Home against Florida thus not playing home games two years in a row.
last night when i commented on it it had two games on the road for alabama...it was edited since then
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.
ummm... in 2006 one of Ohio State's first games which basically put a target on their back was against Texas who was #2 at the time.
OSU was the preseason #1 team in 2006. Playing Texas made no difference for their national title hopes. On the other hand, playing and losing to USC definitely destroyed their national title hopes last season. The BCS system offers teams almost no incentive to play a tough schedule. OSU would be better off not playing these games.
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.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:09 AM ^
....there are no "probablies" about it - Michigan plays Notre Dame at home in 2009 and 2011, and at ND in 2010.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:57 AM ^
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.)
March 10th, 2009 at 11:06 AM ^
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.
Thank you, I agree completely.