Florida Rematch in 2007?

[Flocka]

I would love to have a rematch with the Buckeyes. I would actually love to play the Buckeyes annually. I think if we play every year this could turn into a really good rivalry.

Florida would never schedule this. Not because they are scared or anything, just because they are not known for scheduling tough out of conference games outside of Florida.

 

[IronBuckI]

I would love to have a rematch with the Buckeyes. I would actually love to play the Buckeyes annually. I think if we play every year this could turn into a really good rivalry.

Florida already schedules 1 (Florida State) sometimes two (Miami) OOC games against premier schools. I don't think that they'll ever schedule an annual game against another school. Plus, I like the way we are doing our premier OOC games for the next few years. It gets us exposure all over the country, rather than just in two regions.

 

[OCBucksFan]

I would love to have a rematch with the Buckeyes. I would actually love to play the Buckeyes annually. I think if we play every year this could turn into a really good rivalry.

I don't ever see this happening, since Florida already has 2 in-state rivals that are in different conferences and also for the reason that ooc games like that are a huge risk. Face it, the only way to insure you make it to the big dance is to win all of your games, if you lose just one, you need help. So, for Florida, who already schedules FSU and "The U", to take on another premier program would be borderline moronic.

I wish there was a way to reward schools more for taking on larger schools but the system we have in place isn't really effective.

 

[Zurp]

I wish there was a way to reward schools more for taking on larger schools but the system we have in place isn't really effective.

It isn't terrible. I don't think that Ohio State got penalized, much, for Texas, in 2005. And Texas, likely, got rewarded quite a bit for that game. So, it isn't exactly win-win, but the loss isn't nearly as devastating as the win is helpful.

I don't like the idea of playing an annual OOC game against one team. I like the way we've been doing it: continue the home-away series with big-name teams, changing teams every other year. I also like playing one in-state MAC team at home. I'm not crazy about playing against Youngstown State, but that's not really a big deal.

I think that the PAC-10 did something right. I know - it's hard to envy the PAC-10. Anyway, I guess that when the NCAA switched to a 12-game schedule, the PAC-10 changed from an 8-game regular season to a 9-game regular season. All PAC-10 teams play all other PAC-10 teams. I'd like to see the Big Ten add the 9th in-conference game.

 

[OCBucksFan]

I think that the PAC-10 did something right. I know - it's hard to envy the PAC-10. Anyway, I guess that when the NCAA switched to a 12-game schedule, the PAC-10 changed from an 8-game regular season to a 9-game regular season. All PAC-10 teams play all other PAC-10 teams. I'd like to see the Big Ten add the 9th in-conference game.

I agree 100% here, this would resolve the issue of the shared big 10 title when the two who share it never got to play each other. Granted, we would still have some due to records, however, I think it would be shared a lot less.

 

[Zurp]

I agree 100% here, this would resolve the issue of the shared big 10 title when the two who share it never got to play each other. Granted, we would still have some due to records, however, I think it would be shared a lot less.

It wouldn't resolve EVERYTHING. Each team would still have one team they didn't play. But it would lessen the chances that the two teams who share the Big Ten championship didn't play each other.

 

[23Skidoo]

I think that the PAC-10 did something right. I know - it's hard to envy the PAC-10. Anyway, I guess that when the NCAA switched to a 12-game schedule, the PAC-10 changed from an 8-game regular season to a 9-game regular season. All PAC-10 teams play all other PAC-10 teams. I'd like to see the Big Ten add the 9th in-conference game.

I agreed with everything else you said, and I love how the P10 added a game when we went to 12... however, it is impossible for the B10 to play a 9 game conference schedule.
The reason it is impossible is because there are 11 teams. You will always end up with 1 team that has only played 8 games -- and everyone else has already played 9. So either 1 team has to play 10 games so everyone else can play 9, or 1 team plays just 8 games.
Mathematically it works as follows 9(games) * 11 (teams) = 99 / 2 (teams per game) = 49.5 <--- that .5 is what makes it impossible.

If you bump it up to 10 games, it works out perfectly. Personally, I'd love to see us have 10 in-conference games + 1 local school + 1 great OOC opponent.

 

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[Zurp]

Mathematically it works as follows 9(games) * 11 (teams) = 99 / 2 (teams per game) = 49.5 <--- that .5 is what makes it impossible.

Impossible?!? That's loser talk! It can work like this: 49.5 games (using your math). Currently, there are 44 games. So each team adds one of the teams they don't play. 10 teams pair up, leaving an 11th team to look like that one kid in school who never got picked. And what did the teacher do with that one kid? She either volunteered to be that one kid's partner, or she matched him up with a pair of kids, to make them a triple. So, either Jim Delaney needs to make a football team to field to play one game a year, or they need to invent a new kind of football game with three teams.

Just kidding. You're right - 11 teams can't play 9 games against each other.

If you bump it up to 10 games, it works out perfectly. Personally, I'd love to see us have 10 in-conference games + 1 local school + 1 great OOC opponent.

That would be pretty sweet. But my guess is that there's some big reason that they like to get more teams to come to Columbus, other than the in-conference teams and "great" OOC opponents.

 

[spadukins]

I think that the PAC-10 did something right. I know - it's hard to envy the PAC-10. Anyway, I guess that when the NCAA switched to a 12-game schedule, the PAC-10 changed from an 8-game regular season to a 9-game regular season. All PAC-10 teams play all other PAC-10 teams. I'd like to see the Big Ten add the 9th in-conference game.

Another thing that makes adding more in conference games undesirable for the Big Ten is the fact that all the teams want to schedule as many home games as possible so that they can make as much money as possible. If extra conference games were scheduled then teams like Ohio State, scUM and PSU would have to travel for that extra game on occasion. These schools have huge stadiums that they prefer to sell out an extra game each year by inviting in a pansy to kick around.

Hats off to the Pac Ten for not caring about the money but now for their trouble they are stuck with an unbalanced schedule where some teams only have 4 home conference games and 5 road games while some other teams have 5 home and 4 away. That disparity can possibly, and in the future probably will, tilt the edge for the conference championship in one teams favor versus another. In other words, it's not a level playing field from one year to the next.

Granted, if USC remains the clear dominant team in that conference from here to eternity as it appears they could then the Trojans could probably play all their conference games on the road and still win the Pac Ten. Sooner or later though it's gonna screw somebody. I wouldn't want it to be my team but if it screws USC then it'll be worth a laugh.

Go Buckeyes!!!

 

[ant80]

Another thing that makes adding more in conference games undesirable for the Big Ten is the fact that all the teams want to schedule as many home games as possible so that they can make as much money as possible. If extra conference games were scheduled then teams like Ohio State, scUM and PSU would have to travel for that extra game on occasion. These schools have huge stadiums that they prefer to sell out an extra game each year by inviting in a pansy to kick around.

Hats off to the Pac Ten for not caring about the money but now for their trouble they are stuck with an unbalanced schedule where some teams only have 4 home conference games and 5 road games while some other teams have 5 home and 4 away. That disparity can possibly, and in the future probably will, tilt the edge for the conference championship in one teams favor versus another. In other words, it's not a level playing field from one year to the next.

Granted, if USC remains the clear dominant team in that conference from here to eternity as it appears they could then the Trojans could probably play all their conference games on the road and still win the Pac Ten. Sooner or later though it's gonna screw somebody. I wouldn't want it to be my team but if it screws USC then it'll be worth a laugh.

Go Buckeyes!!!

There are 4 away games in current Big10 schedule, there will be 4/5 games in a 9 conference game schedule. If the powers to be coordinate it so that there are 3 OOC home games when there 5 away games, and 4 OOC home games when there 4 away conf-games, it would resolve that issue. Especially for teams like OSU (regular big OOC schedule) and scUM (NoD).

 

[Zurp]

Hats off to the Pac Ten for not caring about the money

The Pac-10 is a bunch of hippies. Hippies, as we all know, don't care about money. Actually, they don't even like money. They'd go out of their way to flush their own 20-dollar bill down some rich dude's toilet, to raise his water bill for that month.

 

[GatorGal]

I would love to have a rematch with the Buckeyes. I would actually love to play the Buckeyes annually. I think if we play every year this could turn into a really good rivalry.

I concur. The two Buckeye fans down the street from me are still harping on the two losses to Florida earlier this year. I am tired of hearing, "If only ..."

Let's play every year. It'd be a great North-vs.-South / SEC-vs.-Big Ten game to which we could all look forward. (Not to mention that I could justify a trip to Cedar Point every other year ...)

 

[Bleed S & G]

I am tired of hearing, "If only ..."

Let's play every year.

Down. Then you'll be the one with the "if only" excuses :P

 

[LordJeffBuck]

I would love to have a rematch with the Buckeyes. I would actually love to play the Buckeyes annually. I think if we play every year this could turn into a really good rivalry.

Actually, it would be interesting to have an annual Big Ten-SEC Challenge, similar to the Big Ten-ACC Challenge in basketball. The only problem is that too many teams would be out of the national title hunt early in the season, leaving the door open for teams from the Big 12 and Pac 10 and the Big East.