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2020 B1G Season - Starts Oct. 23/24

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Just sayin': Ohio State and Northwestern are in a very enviable position for their Dec 19th game; besides being the B1g CCG, they know who they are playing, where they are playing, and when they are playing, etc. The other 12 schools aren't as lucky. I'm anxiously waiting for Kevin Warren to reveal the remining schedule for the B1G games on Dec 19th and listening to the bitching about: no transparency in his mystery (maybe unfair) determination of opponents criteria, who has to play who, who got the home game, and/or what time the game will start, etc.
 
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I agree. I think they set themselves up for backlash with their +1 idea (just like every other idea/rule/protocol they have put in place this season) with all the cx'd games already, who plays who?, locations of games, who gets left out if there are an uneven number of teams available, ect.... I understand they have been left with an impossible task from the start w/ COVID, but a lot of this could have been avoided with an earlier start, and damnit, if they haven't f'd it up every step of the way since.
 
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mendensa said:
I agree. I think they set themselves up for backlash with their +1 idea (just like every other idea/rule/protocol they have put in place this season) with all the cx'd games already, who plays who?, locations of games, who gets left out if there are an uneven number of teams available, ect.... I understand they have been left with an impossible task from the start w/ COVID, but a lot of this could have been avoided with an earlier start, and damnit, if they haven't f'd it up every step of the way since.
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Yeah it doesn’t make a lot of sense now. But when they made the decision, I’m sure there was discussion of giving the OSU-PSU loser one extra game versus a top 25 Iowa/Wisconsin to leave the door open for a second conference CFB bid if there was chaos in the other conferences.

Oh, how different things were two months ago. Although one thing remains unchanged; it’s December and Michigan still sucks!
 
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I would just like to point out that had TTUN not avoided their proper drubbing in The Game, they would have now been 2-5, or tied for last place in the East with Sparty, who beat them head-to-head, so the tiebreaker would place TTUN in dead last, where they rightfully belong.

But maybe they’ll still make a trophy case for their current 6th place, since not getting that loss today kept them out of the cellar.
 
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Once again, I have the need to illustrate the lunacy of the 6-game rule:

After 5 weeks, Penn State was 0-5. If the following games has been cancelled:

10/24: Rutgers-Sparty and Md-NW
10/31: TTUN-Sparty and Minn-Md
11/07: Rutgers-tOSU and TTUN-Ind
11/14: tOSU-Md and Sparty-Ind
11/21: TTUN-Rutgers and tOSU-Ind

At that point, Penn State would have been 0-5 and been able to clinch the East with one more game (win or loss!), as long as there were only 7 or fewer games cancelled for the rest of the overall schedule, since they’d be the only team in the East with 6 games. They could have ended up 0-8 and clinched the East!

Although the Penn State message boards would have been very entertaining in that scenario when they finally dumped the 6-game rule.

Another possible scenario would be that all of the above happened, and Penn State’s last 3 games were cancelled. Then as long as there were no more than 4 other games cancelled, NOBODY would have been able to represent the East.
 
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During his appearance on the Ohio State IMG Sports Network's final Buckeye Roundtable show of the season, Day said he was humbled by Fitzgerald's comments and that he thinks either Fitzgerald or Indiana coach Tom Allen would be worthy of this year's Big Ten Coach of the Year award, which is set to be announced Thursday.

“I can't say enough about Pat Fitzgerald, just the class that he brings,” Day said. “He's somebody, really, that I think the Big Ten can really be proud of. And for him to say that, that's pretty humbling. I've watched and had a lot of respect for him for a long, long time, so yeah, that means a lot.

“I would say Fitz should certainly get recognition for Coach of the Year. What he's done this year is pretty tremendous. I think Tom Allen also deserves some credit, recognition for what he's done this season. I think both of those guys have done an excellent job this year in a tough spot.”
 
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The Big Ten currently has a rule in their COVID protocols that when a student-athlete tests positive for the coronavirus, they cannot return to action until 21 days from their positive test. The first two weeks of that involve some form of quarantine, while the last week involves further testing for the heart and an acclimatization period as the player returns to action in practice.

Every other Power 5 conference holds players out for just 10 days from a positive test, though the SEC does add on a 4-day acclimatization period as well.

So why is this important now?

Well, the College Football Playoff does not have its own set of COVID rules, and instead will fall back on each team’s respective conference protocols. This means that if any Ohio State player tests positive right now, they’d have to miss the semifinals due to the 21-day rule. If a player from Alabama or Clemson or Notre Dame tests positive today, however, they will be free to play in 15 days because of the rules of their respective conferences.

The rules of the Big XII, ACC, and ACC are all in line with the CDC’s 10-day quarantine guidelines, whereas the Big Ten goes above and beyond, all in the name of player safety. Since the rule was implemented, however, the heart issues that created the Big Ten’s largest concerns have not been as prevalent as originally thought. As the months pass, after all, more and more is learned about the effects of COVID-19 every day.

But it’s not just about a positive test for a Buckeye today. The Big Ten rule would also eliminate any Buckeye from the playoffs if they have tested positive at any point since Saturday December 12. Meanwhile, Clemson and Notre Dame could have a player test positive as late as December 22 and they would still have them theoretically available for a semifinal game.

More than any other conference in America, the Big Ten believes in equality of its member schools. Shares are cut equally for the full-fledged members and everybody has the same vote.
 
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https://theathletic.com/2295613/2021/01/04/big-ten-football-schedule-2021-changes-divisions/

A truncated and jagged 2020 Big Ten football season has left a handful of scheduling issues for the league office and its 14 members for the upcoming 2021 season.

No conversations have taken place quite yet with the league still working through Olympic sports’ scheduling. But expect the 2021 football schedule to gain significant dialogue in the coming weeks. It initially was approved in September 2017, but with six different location switches plus seven crossover games removed from the 2020 schedule, the 2021 blueprint needs major revisions.

Here’s a look at three primary areas the league needs to address when it reconstructs the 2021 football schedule and what it also should consider for 2022 and beyond:

Rivalry flips and ripples

In 2020, the Big Ten swapped locations on six different divisional series. If those games remain in place for 2021, teams would face off in the same stadium three consecutive years. That’s not going to...
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The rest is pay walled. Anyone have any doubt that kevin warren is the right man to handle this issue?
 
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INDIANA, OFFICIALLY SALTY. 2020 was wild for (the limit does not exist) reasons, but one thing we don't talk nearly enough about is how Indiana and its football fans (which apparently exist?) flipped from loveable underdogs to absolutely unbearable irrationalists with the quickness.

And here's our forever reminder that it went all the way to the top.



Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...fields-and-ohio-states-passing-game-slings-it
 
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