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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

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Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add? (please limit to four selections)

  • Boston College

    Votes: 32 10.2%

  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 19 6.1%

  • Connecticut

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • Duke

    Votes: 21 6.7%

  • Georgia Tech

    Votes: 55 17.6%

  • Kansas

    Votes: 46 14.7%

  • Maryland

    Votes: 67 21.4%

  • Missouri

    Votes: 90 28.8%

  • North Carolina

    Votes: 39 12.5%

  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 209 66.8%

  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 78 24.9%

  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 45 14.4%

  • Rutgers

    Votes: 40 12.8%

  • Syracuse

    Votes: 18 5.8%

  • Texas

    Votes: 121 38.7%

  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 15 4.8%

  • Virginia

    Votes: 47 15.0%

  • Virginia Tech

    Votes: 62 19.8%

  • Stay at 12 teams and don't expand

    Votes: 27 8.6%

  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 25 8.0%
  • Total voters
    313
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New Big 18 sked reveal: 12 sacred cow games and Iowa gets three of the twelve. Only the schools admitted prior to Penn State and Westies got to pick permanent rivals. Penn State, MD, Rutgers, Neb, left out. So those of you who kept saying Penn State is not a rival were right.
 
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Jake said:
"oHiO StAtE iS aFrAiD tO pLaY uS eVeRy yEaR." - some moron in crappy valley.
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That one hasn't come up, yet, but here's a comment that's getting close:
PSU with ZERO protected match-ups (Iowa with 3)
PSU plays scUM only 2 of next 5 years & tOSU 3 of next 5 years
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B1G releases future football schedules

PSU away for every opening B1G game ad infinitum. Looks like we get USC away and UCLA & Washington at home next year. We also play tOSU and Wisconsin. No Iowa or UM.
pennstate.forums.rivals.com pennstate.forums.rivals.com

The first comment in that thread is something they've been crying about for years:
PSU away for every opening B1G game ad infinitum.
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I don't know if it's a joke or if he's able to see somewhere that shows what the schedule actually is. All I've found is the listing of who the opponents will be in the coming years, not the schedule, itself.
 
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Zurp said:
That one hasn't come up, yet, but here's a comment that's getting close:

B1G releases future football schedules

PSU away for every opening B1G game ad infinitum. Looks like we get USC away and UCLA & Washington at home next year. We also play tOSU and Wisconsin. No Iowa or UM.
pennstate.forums.rivals.com pennstate.forums.rivals.com

The first comment in that thread is something they've been crying about for years:

I don't know if it's a joke or if he's able to see somewhere that shows what the schedule actually is. All I've found is the listing of who the opponents will be in the coming years, not the schedule, itself.
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They should've protected PSU-Maryland. Joe Pa loved beating up on the Terps as an independent, always at home of course.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
It's almost a certainty that the fucks in the league office will make sure to have us and tsun playing out West every year.
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I'm not sure if you're joking or not. My apologies if you're joking...
But the chances that any team would avoid playing at one of those four teams, randomly, are low.
18 teams. You can't play yourself, so 17 teams. You play 9 of them, so you're playing 52.9% of the other teams in the conference. Most teams have 1 "rival". So you play your rival plus 8 other teams, and miss playing 8 teams. Theoretically, you can alternate the 8 teams on your schedule with the 8 teams not on your schedule. Since there are 4 west coast teams, it makes sense to have 2 on the "play this year" list and 2 on the "play next year" list. Since half of the games are away, you're pretty much going to have (and want to have) 1 game at the west coast every year.
I know that it isn't as simple as that. We won't be alternating the "play this year" and the "play next year" teams. But over the coarse of infinity, it should even out pretty well.
To test this, note that there are 14 teams not on the west coast. With 5 seasons planned out, there are 14 x 5 = 70 teams' schedules. 2 of those teams (Purdue, 2024 and Rutgers, 2026) do not play on the west coast. So 97% of the teams are playing on the west coast.

So yeah - the fucks in the league office (I'm not going to correct your use of "fucks" because I agree with it for other reasons) will make sure we play out west every year.
 
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