Ten years later and I still hate that we moved to the B1G 🤮
2024 football schedule release on Big Ten.
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Our 2024 big ten schedule is the easiest of any program in the 2024-2025 release
Of the 32 team schedules (2024-2025) we are the only program who only has 1 blue blood on one of their schedules
More favorable treatment from the big ten - it is time we start taking advantage of these gifts
Not sure what conference we could be in and have losing seasons 7 of the past 8 years and not hate it. Being a doormat is always hateful.
Strong case with Nebraska on the schedule.
Eh, chicken and egg I guess. Our downward spiral correlates perfectly with our move. I don't think it's a coincidence.
Penn State should be playing Pittsburgh every year as a true rival. They have played over 100 games against each other.
And on the flip side the 2025 schedule is the toughest schedule anyone will face in the 2 year period…
Nope plenty of other teams play 3 of the 4 of OSU-Michigan- PSU or USC in a year
MSU plays 3 of the 4 both years
Others just don’t whine about it
No, I don't think it will identical every two years. Protected games for all the teams obviously will be the same but which other teams you play twice (in our case UCLA and Minnesota) can change and be adjusted for competitive balance. Also the order and mix between years might be different.
Who’s whining about it... Sparty has Michigan for a protected opponent so they would have one anyway plus they play Rutgers and Indiana in the same year in 2024.
I think the conference did a good job of the scheduling, but Penn St not having one protected opponent and having Purdue and Illinois as one of the protected games just seems out of place..
Ding ding ding. UCLA is a little suspect they had a pretty okay year last year but did lose to 5-7 Arizona. Also I am still not 100% sold on USC. Lincoln Riley has a pretty suspect record against physical teams. His record and close games against KSU shows this. His record last year was 11-3. The 3 loses were to physical tough teams that ram the ball down your throat. So we will see. USC is of course far scarier than UCLA. I just think they are a notch below Michigan for example.
UCLA belongs in the tier of BIG teams around Michigan state, Penn state. Teams that should not scare anyone except if you are a .500 team.
NU's downward spiral correlates perfectly with hiring Mike Riley and Scott Frost.
I especially love the name chosen by the B1G for this scheduling model.
Flex Protect Plus!
Sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
Flex Protect Plus!
Sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
Unless they continued the invented MSU one, it makes a little sense if you consider the 3 border state teams:
If it involved any combination with tOSU, the Buckeyes are at a competitive disadvantage over time.
If it were only either RU or MD, likely the other gets upset.
If it were a combination including both RU and MD, PSU is at a competitive advantage over time.
Had they created a new NU-PSU one though…
Good question
I feel like McNeese State and Abdullah having to pull a god-like play to win the game was the first time I thought we were in real trouble … we ain’t been right since.
Be the best let’s play them, lately Minnesota, Illinois and Purdue have beaten us so what difference does it make? I think we should join fcs so we can compete. I am sick of losing and the losing mentality. Get out compete adjust and and win and be what we are supposed to be.
We won a bowl game that year - only saying the cracks in the dam were showing and were about to break open.
I don't know, bit of a subjective argument here. In our last 12 years in the Big 12, we made 4 conference championship game appearances. In our 12 years in the Big 10, we've made 1. That's across multiple coaches.
But yeah Riley and Frost certainly didn't help anything. And yeah I can understand the argument that it started in 2001 or the McNeese game or whatever.
Regardless, the grass has certainly not been greener in the B1G that's for sure. Quite the contrary. I don't think there's an objective fan among us who wouldn't love to go back to the way things were when we were in the Big 12.
Flex Protect +
Four teams miss playing both Ohio St and Michigan in the same year the next two years.
2024 Indiana,Purdue and Nebraska
2025 UCLA
2024 UCLA plays both.
2025 Indiana, Purdue and Nebraska- all three will play both of them
CBS sports also mentioned that UCLA and Rutgers the furthest apart from one another will play more times than Penn St and Ohio st who happen to be neighboring states with one another.
Four teams miss playing both Ohio St and Michigan in the same year the next two years.
2024 Indiana,Purdue and Nebraska
2025 UCLA
2024 UCLA plays both.
2025 Indiana, Purdue and Nebraska- all three will play both of them
CBS sports also mentioned that UCLA and Rutgers the furthest apart from one another will play more times than Penn St and Ohio st who happen to be neighboring states with one another.
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Nope
When Pederson hired Callahan and that‘s when it started and changed our identity.
for the people who think Rhule needs 2 years to build then our schedule is perfect
we have amongst the easiest schedules in the modern era the next 2 years - just one conference heavy weight each of the next 2 years and Colorado as the out of conf game
should win a lot of games which should take recruiting to the next level as we can actually sell winning games
golden opportunity that we need to take advantage of
Depends on who you talk to. Most fans on here are older and so wistfully remember the days of the Big 12/8. I’m older as well but I do not have fond memories of the Big 12 at all.
I remember OU abandoning NU for UT, who then ran the conference. I remember Nebraska being outvoted 11-1 on almost every issue and those same schools now lamenting it. Especially since OUT is headed for the SEC.
I remember the conference treating Nebraska like shit for most of its existence. It was whatever Texas wanted. And everyone else except NU did whatever they told them to do.
So yeah. I do not miss that crappy conference at all. And neither do younger fans who you can find on Reddit and Discord.
Case in point. There was a Husker fan on Reddit who started a thread basically saying NU wasn’t a good fit in the BIG.
He was downvoted and the entire thread was mostly Husker fans making fun of him.
Yup, agree with all. But we make $48M/yr more than our old brethren except for OU, UT, MO, and A&M, so karma is a bitch. Like a plague of locusts, Texas devoured it's host and moved on, just like it did the SWC. KU, KSU, ISU, CO, and OKST. were unwitting participants in their own undoing.
Trying to speak it into truth. You running for political office? No team outside Nebraska is posted about on these boards more than Iowa. It’s not really even close.
Keep making it fun to visit this board.
That is because you donkeys come over here all the time.
I don't check out other sites but I am guessing that after NU, PSU, Michigan and OSU, the sites for all the other teams combined might get like 30 posts a day.
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You’re the exact type of fan we all feel sorry for
What an empty existence. You come here because what else do you have to do?
The single most boring college football experience known to man
I think maybe 5 people here watch iowa when you’re not playing us
Some “rivalry”
Only because this board is littered with Iowa douchebags....
