• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Schedule Openings in 2017-2019 -- Who do you want to see Ohio State play?

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
HorseshoeFetish said:
Wtf? Screw you Gene. What offense does Army run? Shouldn't be hard to figure out since only 3 other schools run it. Fucking clown.
Click to expand...

After further review at least the games aren't terribly scheduled. We don't open up with Army then play Oklahoma. 2017 will be the first schedule that looks decent, at least IMO and from a distance. It seems nicely paced with the bigger games. If the Hoosiers.....forget that one. I've wanted to beat Oklahoma for a very long time. 83 seems a long time ago. Opening up against f-something U before playing the juggaloads might not be a terrible thing. Even if they aren't stacked with studs that played a game at nippert, they will play us tough being Ohio kids and all.

I guess I may owe gene an apology but I haven't grown that much as a person since this morning.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0
Just have to enjoy the little things, and knowing people are typing s-h-i-t in order to say shit is definitely a good little thing. This should be a global thing. shit should be able to sign his name on a check with the four-letter version and have it be a valid instrument.

I wonder how much it would take to get him to legally change his name? I'd Kickstarter that shit.
 
Upvote 0
Zurp said:
I'd like to see a Big Ten vs. ________ challenge. Like the Big Ten vs. ACC challenge in basketball. Big Ten vs. SEC. Big Ten vs. Pac-12. Whatever. I'd REALLY like to see Big Ten vs. SEC. Year 1, make the game be the first game of the year - hottest time of year - in the SEC home stadiums. Year 2, make the game be the last game of the year - after the conference championship games - in the Big Ten home stadiums. Basically, we'll play you in your heat if you come play us in our cold. I know it would never happen, for many, many reasons. But I'd think it'd be pretty cool to see.
Click to expand...

We tried it, the PAC chickened out because a lot of them already play Notre Dame.
SEC will never leave the South, so that's out the question.
Not sure there's much/any benefit to BXII or ACC in football. I mean, adding Syracuse? OK...
 
Upvote 0
kujirakira said:
We tried it, the PAC chickened out because a lot of them already play Notre Dame.
SEC will never leave the South, so that's out the question.
Not sure there's much/any benefit to BXII or ACC in football. I mean, adding Syracuse? OK...
Click to expand...

I didn't know why the Pac-12 decided not to go into that deal - I just knew that it was tried and failed before it started.
And that's just one of the reasons the B10-SEC challenge would never work. (Though give a couple of teams credit - SOME credit, anyway. Isn't LSU playing in Wisconsin this year - maybe not Madison, WI, but the state of Wisconsin.) But you're right - the SEC is notorious for not leaving their region. And I can't say I blame them - screw national perception - if you're known as the "best conference on this side of the Kuiper Belt", why risk more than you have to gain? Anyway, I digress. Note that my plan was to get Big Ten teams to the south for the first game of the year. Scheduling all 14 teams to do that would be tough, especially with a 9-game conference schedule coming up. Half the teams will already have 5 away games. They can't afford to have any more away games. So you split the teams up so 7 games are at the end of the year in Big Ten stadiums and 7 games are at the beginning of the year in SEC stadiums. The teams that play 5 conference away games play the SEC at home, and the teams that play only 4 conference away games play the SEC on the road. That pretty much eats up EVERY team's away games every year. They have no more flexibility in scheduling who they want. They already only have 3 choices, and this game takes 1 away. They need to play 2 home games. They can't schedule a home-away series with anyone else. I know some teams have out-of-conference rivals. Iowa-Iowa State, Michigan State-Notre Dame, etc. Those will no longer be possible. So the Big Ten will be against this set-up. Then there's the whole "play in the Big Ten stadiums the last week of the season - AFTER the conference championship games" thing. Do they move the conference championship game up a week, or get permission from the NCAA to play a week later than they're supposed to? Plus, there's the whole thing where the SEC wouldn't gain anything from playing in the cold - if they win then they're still the best conference, and if they lose then maybe questions are asked about that.
As to your third point, if the SEC isn't enough to pull teams away from their historical out-of-conference rivalries, the ACC or Big-12 wouldn't be, either. I just thought it would be cool to see a conference vs. conference challenge. It wouldn't work, though.
 
Upvote 0
1. Can't do any sort of conference by conference challenge, it's too difficult. 9 Conference games just makes it too difficult to mandate. Requiring 1 P5 opponent is still a great idea.

2. Scheduling ACC teams and bottom of the barrel B12 and P12 teams aren't a bad idea. I think those games would be good to replace games against MAC teams. I would like to see more of the top 5 or 6 B1G teams do 2 or 3 P5 oppenents. 1 marquee game against a team of similar status and then 1 or 2 mid to low level P5 teams. This will just increase the status of the conference. Every team should play an OOC game that is a coin flip win. For the weaker B1G teams I'd like to see 1 P5 team of similar status and then I guess some MAC teams, just because I feel bad if Purdue loses all 3 OCC games, give them a shot to go 1-11.

3. Not making excuses but one potential reason why SEC teams don't play a lot of big OOC games is their in conference scheduling is all f'd up. In the big ten, we play all 9 conference games in the last 10 weeks, so every team has the first 4 weeks to do whatever they want, give or take and depending on number of byes. I'm pretty sure the PAC and B12 do the same thing. This allows us to schedule games with their teams 10 years out before the conference slate is announced. I think the ACC does that for the most part as well, the first 2-3 weeks has no conference games then it get screwed up for OOC rivalries on thanksgiving weekend. The SEC doesn't really do that at all. Most teams open with an OOC game, but then it gets screwed to hell. It seems like they want to have at least 2 conference games the first 3 weeks. When the conference doesn't announce the schedule until 2 or 3 years out that limits their scheduling ability. Plus they share a ton of ACC OOC rivalries. Just a guess, no idea how they do it, but just a guess.

4. 2023 is going to be a bitch. Particularly if Addazio is still there. They are a tough team, not a lot of talent but they play tough. Throw in Texas and ND and that is a wow schedule.
 
Upvote 0
Zurp said:
I didn't know why the Pac-12 decided not to go into that deal - I just knew that it was tried and failed before it started.
And that's just one of the reasons the B10-SEC challenge would never work. (Though give a couple of teams credit - SOME credit, anyway. Isn't LSU playing in Wisconsin this year - maybe not Madison, WI, but the state of Wisconsin.) But you're right - the SEC is notorious for not leaving their region. And I can't say I blame them - screw national perception - if you're known as the "best conference on this side of the Kuiper Belt", why risk more than you have to gain? Anyway, I digress. Note that my plan was to get Big Ten teams to the south for the first game of the year. Scheduling all 14 teams to do that would be tough, especially with a 9-game conference schedule coming up. Half the teams will already have 5 away games. They can't afford to have any more away games. So you split the teams up so 7 games are at the end of the year in Big Ten stadiums and 7 games are at the beginning of the year in SEC stadiums. The teams that play 5 conference away games play the SEC at home, and the teams that play only 4 conference away games play the SEC on the road. That pretty much eats up EVERY team's away games every year. They have no more flexibility in scheduling who they want. They already only have 3 choices, and this game takes 1 away. They need to play 2 home games. They can't schedule a home-away series with anyone else. I know some teams have out-of-conference rivals. Iowa-Iowa State, Michigan State-Notre Dame, etc. Those will no longer be possible. So the Big Ten will be against this set-up. Then there's the whole "play in the Big Ten stadiums the last week of the season - AFTER the conference championship games" thing. Do they move the conference championship game up a week, or get permission from the NCAA to play a week later than they're supposed to? Plus, there's the whole thing where the SEC wouldn't gain anything from playing in the cold - if they win then they're still the best conference, and if they lose then maybe questions are asked about that.
As to your third point, if the SEC isn't enough to pull teams away from their historical out-of-conference rivalries, the ACC or Big-12 wouldn't be, either. I just thought it would be cool to see a conference vs. conference challenge. It wouldn't work, though.
Click to expand...

I think that LSU/ Wisconsin game is scheduled at Lambeau. Not this year tho as Wisconsin opens with Bama.

Edit: Yes the game is scheduled for Lambeau in 2016.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top