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2025 Big Ten Media Days Will Be Held July 22-24 in Las Vegas
The 2025 Big Ten football media days will be held July 22-24 in Las Vegas.
2025 Big Ten Media Days Will Be Held July 22-24 in Las Vegas
Big Ten Media Days are heading west this year.The Big Ten announced Friday that the 2025 football media days for the conference will be held July 22-24 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
The conference has not yet announced which day Ryan Day and Ohio State players will meet with the media, but Big Ten Network will provide coverage of all three days of press conferences and interviews.
It’ll be the first time the Big Ten holds its media days out west after adding four West Coast schools – Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington – to the conference last year. Big Ten Media Days had been held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for the past four years after they were previously held in Chicago.
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Just sayin': Las Vegas isn't even a BIG city or in a B1G state. I wonder what kind of "financial incentive" the B1G got to have it there. Anyway, college football these day is really just all about the money.
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ScriptOhio
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Skull Session: Tony Petitti Wants to See the CFP Expand and the Big Ten Schedule Tougher Nonconference Games, Ohio State is Nominated For Best Team At the 2025 ESPYs
Tony Petitti wants to see the Big Ten schedule tougher nonconference games, and Ohio State is nominated for Best Team at the 2025 ESPYs.
“WE WANT MORE OF THAT.” This week, Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti appeared on Joel Klatt’s podcast to discuss the future of college football.
Klatt asked Petitti about the proposed 16-team College Football Playoff model that would feature four automatic qualifiers from the Big Ten and SEC, two automatic qualifiers from the ACC and Big 12, one automatic qualifier from the Group of Five and three at-large qualifiers (this field includes an independent like Notre Dame).
“Why that model?” Klatt asked.
“I start off with a stipulation that I think the committee does the best job they possibly can. I just think what they’re being asked to do is so difficult,” Petitti answered. “I understand there was controversy about how many AQs one league gets (compared) to another, but let’s put that aside for now. I think we focus on, at least within the Big Ten, we’re not asking to be handed anything. We’re playing nine conference games, we want to play tough play-in games to get there and we want to create an incentive for our schools to schedule more (difficult nonconference games).”
“So you’re trying to create a system that creates tougher games?” Klatt interjected.
“Yeah. Look, we want to play – I think, theoretically, the goal is to play more nonconference games,” Petitti continued, “because if you’re qualifying for the CFP off your conference record and then a play-in game, the fact that you play a tough SEC or ACC or Big 12 team and maybe get beat on the road or whatever ther result is, that may impact your seeding down the road, but it’s not gonna impact your access. There are three at-larges, so it does a little bit, but at the end of the day, that loss isn’t fatal.”
Petitti said he wants more Big Ten schools to schedule nonconference games against Power Four schools, like Ohio State did with its home-and-home series versus Texas in 2025 and 2026.
“As great as college football is, and it’s great, there’s just more on the table we can do,” he said. “I think fans want to see these nonconference games earlier in the season. I think we can do more of it. Everybody is pointing to, at least at the beginning, that Texas-Ohio State game is going to get tremendous attention. We want more of that.”
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So media days is scheduled for right after the 45-day clock expires2025 Big Ten Media Days Will Be Held July 22-24 in Las Vegas
The 2025 Big Ten football media days will be held July 22-24 in Las Vegas.www.elevenwarriors.com
2025 Big Ten Media Days Will Be Held July 22-24 in Las Vegas
Big Ten Media Days are heading west this year.
The Big Ten announced Friday that the 2025 football media days for the conference will be held July 22-24 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
The conference has not yet announced which day Ryan Day and Ohio State players will meet with the media, but Big Ten Network will provide coverage of all three days of press conferences and interviews.
It’ll be the first time the Big Ten holds its media days out west after adding four West Coast schools – Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington – to the conference last year. Big Ten Media Days had been held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for the past four years after they were previously held in Chicago.
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Just sayin': Las Vegas isn't even a BIG city or in a B1G state. I wonder what kind of "financial incentive" the B1G got to have it there. Anyway, college football these day is really just all about the money.
Even though there is no requirement for the NCAA to adhere to that schedule, I can see why THEY would not want media days to be in Indy at that time
But
1) should the B1G care?
2) will the media continue to be good little soldiers and ignore the elephant in the room?
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CincyInterloper
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Do we think there would be more gaming or less gaming of the system (e.g., with scheduling) if the 16 teams were all chosen at-large by some computer ranking system? I'm not sure what the benefit of guaranteeing conference slots is now that the field is so large.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
There will be more "gaming".
I would guess that if you just use the top 16, there will be more years when only 4 conferences are represented than years when more than 5 conferences are represented. That 5th conference winner will take a spot from one of the 4 conferences, if we use conference champions. If you consider Paul Finebaum whining that Alabama deserves in over SMU to be "gaming", then there will be more "gaming".
I'm not sure what else can be done with the scheduling, but that will always be a thing. So maybe that's just "same amount" of gaming.
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We are so far down this road, there is no going back. Just merge the B1G and SEC teams AFL/NFL style and make a league that always just plays each other.
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RhodeIslandBuck
This guy's a real jerk
That's the endgame, might as well get it over with now
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RhodeIslandBuck
This guy's a real jerk
We're the only country that mixes academics and athletics. It's stupid and makes both less efficient.
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CincyInterloper
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You're right, of course. I personally just don't see a reason to whine about not getting the 16 seed so that you can watch your team get their shit pushed in by the one seed on national television. I don't think football is like basketball where some underrated team can get hot and beat a top seed.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
I mostly agree. But I think the 16 seed COULD get lucky sometime and beat the 1 seed. But then they have to beat the 8 or 9 seed. Then they have to beat probably the 4 seed, and then probably the 2 seed, and I don't think that's ever going to happen if we give this 100 years.
But, in my mind, more importantly, I don't think the 16 seed should even have that opportunity, in the first place. But that's really an argument for the number of teams in the tournament - another thread.
Back to your point, however many teams the tournament takes - let's say that number is X. There will always be 3 more teams above X that all think they belong in, instead of X. At some point, the answer needs to be "STFU", rather than, "Let's expand!" (Back to my previous statement, I believe that we've already passed that point.)
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
Honest question. Do you guys think this would be the end of CFB or minor league NFL? Will people care about the Columbus Buckeyes or Tuscaloosa Tide?
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