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Article published Tuesday, September 6, 2005

BG, Ohio State to play in 2006

By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
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Bowling Green State University will play Ohio State in football next season on Oct. 7, individuals close to the scheduling process confirmed yesterday. It will be the Falcons’ fourth visit to Ohio Stadium since 1992.

With schedules expanding to 12 games, an open date existed for the Buckeyes. BG already has games with Wisconsin (at Cleveland) and at home against Boise State next year.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/SPORTS03/50906019
 
How about instead of picking up a non-conference game, the Big Ten add a conference game to every team's schedule so teams like Purdue don't get potentially gift-wrapped league titles for not playing 2 big conference foes like OSU & scUM?
 
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Thump said:
How about instead of picking up a non-conference game, the Big Ten add a conference game to every team's schedule so teams like Purdue don't get potentially gift-wrapped league titles for not playing 2 big conference foes like OSU & scUM?
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Amen...No school should get a pass of both Michigan and OSU
 
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Thump said:
How about instead of picking up a non-conference game, the Big Ten add a conference game to every team's schedule so teams like Purdue don't get potentially gift-wrapped league titles for not playing 2 big conference foes like OSU & scUM?
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The reason they don't do that is to avoid some teams having 5 home games and others only having 4. That's unfair, just like the current rotation is also unfair, but in a different way.

And if they had everybody play everybody, that would only allow 2 non-conference games, and teams would have less home games overall, which would mean a bunch of lost revenue.
 
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BB73 said:
The reason they don't do that is to avoid some teams having 5 home games and others only having 4. That's unfair, just like the current rotation is also unfair, but in a different way.

And if they had everybody play everybody, that would only allow 2 non-conference games, and teams would have less home games overall, which would mean a bunch of lost revenue.
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And...you would eliminate the chance of 2 BCS bids from the B10. Well not completely eliminate but seriously reduce.

I say screw adding a 12th team, lets just boot someone ***cough Northwestern cough*** .

Dont get all sidetracked I know all the reasons it won't/can't happen, just sayin..if they made the mistake of putting me in charge for a day anyone with Purple as a school color is gone.
 
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BB73 said:
The reason they don't do that is to avoid some teams having 5 home games and others only having 4. That's unfair, just like the current rotation is also unfair, but in a different way.
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So you're telling me that OSU has never played every Big Ten team in the same season?
 
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Oh8ch said:
The reason they don't do that is money, money, money. Home games pay the rent.
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If you look back over the years, there are years when we only played 7 Big Ten games. It had to be where there were years when we were on the short end of home games.
 
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So you're telling me that OSU has never played every Big Ten team in the same season?
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No, I'm not saying that. tOSU played all 9 Big-10 opponents back in 1983 and 1984. That appears to me to be the only times that happened.

Edit - OK, I looked all the way back to 1913, tOSU's first year in the Big-10. 1983 and 1984 are the only 2 years we played all of the other Big-10 teams in football.

For those that don't know Penn St. became the 11th Big-10 team in 1993.

Were you trying to trip me up? :wink2:
 
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If you look back over the years, there are years when we only played 7 Big Ten games. It had to be where there were years when we were on the short end of home games.
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OSU didn't start playing a 10 game regular season until 1971. Prior to that they were playing 7 Big Ten games and had only 3 home Big Ten games some years. But in 1971 you didn't get to see every game on tv and the finances were very much different than they are today.

In fact, I graduated in 1971 and I was paying $14 for an all-sports student pass. Got me into all the football games, all other events except basketball, and I could add basketball games for a quarter if I remember correctly.

Last Saturday I bought a hot dog, pretzel and two bottles of water for that same $14.
 
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Oh8ch said:
OSU didn't start playing a 10 game regular season until 1971. Prior to that they were playing 7 Big Ten games and had only 3 home Big Ten games some years. But in 1971 you didn't get to see every game on tv and the finances were very much different than they are today.

In fact, I graduated in 1971 and I was paying $14 for an all-sports student pass. Got me into all the football games, all other events except basketball, and I could add basketball games for a quarter if I remember correctly.

Last Saturday I bought a hot dog, pretzel and two bottles of water for that same $14.
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How did you get that same $14 back 34 years later? :biggrin:
 
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To back up the money theory, JT from the Big Ten teleconference:

We've got Southern Cal coming on home-and-home in I think '09 and '10; we've got Miami (Fla.) coming '11 and '12 home and home. Philosophically we would like to do that, and then every other year have eight home games, and the years where we travel to the intersectional rivalry, have seven. That's our goal. We fund 36 sports, which I think is the largest in the country. I know our budget that we have to raise is the largest in the country, and we think we can still do that by every other year having seven home games and in the good years financially having eight.
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