Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[ORD_Buckeye]

This fucking guy. Mr P6 is now saying that the AAC should be part of The Alliance.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Roku and Youtube have been in a pissing contest for several months now. YTTV currently isn't available on Roku.

I never lost it, so I have to imagine that they came to some kind of an arrangement.

 

[CincyInterloper]

This fucking guy. Mr P6 is now saying that the AAC should be part of The Alliance.

"I don't know what it is, but I know we should be a part of it."

Not sure how one can know they should be part of something they know nothing about, but what the hell.

 

[Zander42]

On the Roku YouTube app there is a link to YouTube TV. Bottom left corner.

Yep, I just fired that up yesterday. Last year I went streaming only, but wanted more options this year, especially for pre-game stuff and sports talk, etc. Also, I live on a boat and I'm sometimes bandwidth limited and Youtube allows you to watch at a lower resolution. Often, on a laptop, 480p is just fine.

 

[Thump]

Yep, I just fired that up yesterday. Last year I went streaming only, but wanted more options this year, especially for pre-game stuff and sports talk, etc. Also, I live on a boat and I'm sometimes bandwidth limited and Youtube allows you to watch at a lower resolution. Often, on a laptop, 480p is just fine.

You live on the Lorena?

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Hulu+ Live TV is a good package for sports fans. Includes BTN, ACCN, SEC, NFL Network, all the ESPNs (plus ESPNU), and FS1 & FS2. Half these channels weren't in my 200-channel Uverse package that cost more than twice as much.

This is what we went to. Agreed.

 

[gmen6981]

I never lost it, so I have to imagine that they came to some kind of an arrangement.

It must be like they did with the Spectrum cable app. They had a 6 month long fight, and you couldn't download the app from the Roku store. If you already had it, it still worked but with an occasional reminder not to delete it. They just finally reached an agreement about a week ago.

 

[MaxBuck]

This fucking guy. Mr P6 is now saying that the AAC should be part of The Alliance.

I should be in Angelina Jolie's bed.

 

[Zander42]

You live on the Lorena?

If you know the secret knock on the engine room door, I can get you the good stuff.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Looks like the Conference USA may not exist much longer



along with multiple schools trying to jump to the AAC

 

[Dryden]

Not a surprise. CUSA was never viable after all the charter members left for the Big East, which then dissolved into the AAC. The current CUSA is nothing but a handful of schools left over after the WAC dropped Div I football in 2013 along with schools that either recently moved up to Div I/FBS or that created new football programs in the last fifteen or twenty years. And Marshall.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Here are each Big Ten team's permanent opponents:

• Illinois: Northwestern, Ohio State and Purdue
• Indiana: Michigan State, Purdue and Rutgers
• Iowa: Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin
• Maryland: Northwestern, Penn State and Rutgers
• Michigan: Michigan State, Northwestern and Ohio State
• Michigan State: Indiana, Michigan and Rutgers
• Minnesota: Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin
• Nebraska: Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin
• Northwestern: Illinois, Maryland and Michigan
• Ohio State: Illinois, Michigan and Penn State
• Penn State: Maryland, Ohio State and Purdue
• Purdue: Illinois, Indiana and Penn State
• Rutgers: Indiana, Maryland and Michigan State
• Wisconsin: Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ference-slates-form-equity-without-divisions/

 

[TooTall]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ference-slates-form-equity-without-divisions/

Penn State: Ohio State, Maryland, and Purdue

Sheesh. Brutal permanent opponents outside of Ohio State.

 

[dragurd]

Illibuck lives

 

[Zurp]

Sheesh. Brutal permanent opponents outside of Ohio State.

Using the number of wins the past 4 years (and adjusting 2020 to a 9-game season for everyone), the teams who play Ohio State, according to that schedule, are 3 of the 4 toughest schedules. *ichigan would have teams with 71 wins the past 4 years, Illinois would play teams with 69 wins, and Penn State would play teams with 62 wins. Nebraska would play teams with 68 wins, and that doesn't include Ohio State. Ohio State would play teams with 58 wins the past 4 years.

The teams with Rutgers on their schedule all have the easiest schedule - Rutgers only won 5 games the past 4 years.

(For 2020, I took the win percentage and multiplied that by 9 to get the number of wins that the teams should have had. Then I rounded up or down to the nearest full win. So Ohio State's 5-0 record becomes a 9-0 record. *ichigan's 2-4 record becomes 3-6.)

Wins the past 4 years:
34 Ohio State
25 Iowa
25 *ichigan
23 Wisconsin
21 Penn State
20 Minnesota
19 Michigan State
18 Northwestern
17 Purdue
15 Indiana
12 Illinois
11 Maryland
10 Nebraska
5 Rutgers