Cracks in the B1G?
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Agreed. I found it amusing the NCAA acknowledged that “national championship”
Come on Gonzo, I'm disappointed in you. You know better than to acknowledge Wikipedia as knowing anything. It is a crowd sourced format that has errors built in both unintentionally and intentionally. I'm not saying you are wrong (or right for that matter) just don't use wiki...
You're better than that...
It all comes full circle as the QB of that kNU 1997 team was the coach of that 2017 UCF team...
At least that is what Wiki tells me...
At least that is what Wiki tells me...
They were doing that in football for awhile back around 2016 give or take a year or two.
There were until the DMR busted them on the BS sell out streak. Dozens of tickets still available at game time, not signals but entire rows of seats and they were announcing this is X straight sellouts.
See? And it's right.It all comes full circle as the QB of that kNU 1997 team was the coach of that 2017 UCF team...
At least that is what Wiki tells me...
My oldest kid, when in HS, had friends who would go down and tailgate. They didn’t buy tickets but close to game time they would wait for a person to walk out with a stack of tickets and start handing them out.
ISU had Nebraska, Colorado and K-State every year. Back when they were all pretty good. Then Oklahoma and Texas. 2 out of every four years. Don' t forget Mizzou and Kansas had some really good teams back then as well. Havent even mentioned aTm or Texas Tech. Much tougher schedule?
The reality of it, as played out in other conferences multiple times, is that the biggest brands can and will press the nuke button at whatever point they decide doing so best suits them. And when they do, every other team has to decide to give them what they want or let them bail. Sure, there isn't a different conference a Michigan or Georgia can run off to. But they don't need one either. If they ever decide they want to press the issue of relative value with their conference mates they can decide to go independent in football and get exactly the same results as OU/UT threatening to move to the PAC or FSU threatening to sue to break the ACC grant of rights. All they need is some pretext, and all other teams will be forced to decide whether they are better off with their pain in the ass big brother teams or risk potentially struggling financially without them. The answer to it, of course, is cut and dried. It only ever works out one way, because the handful of college football brands understand that if value is determined only by media ratings value, they will always win in the end.
Yeah it mostly was, especially from 2002-2010 before the North went away and before the B1G broke into divisions.
Don’t start with 2002 or 2003. Iowa was co-Big 10 champions in 2002, faced only two ranked teams and lost to Iowa State. the co-champions never faced. During 2002-2003, the only team that faced the number one team was Iowa State (OU in 2003).
Yeah after 2002 through the rest of the decade our conference schedule was much tougher. But then in the 2010s the Big 12's got tougher.
They are not going to show up.
They actually have more chances to beat a ranked team this year. When was the last time the *winningest coach beat a ranked team or played a schedule worth mentioning?
*Big 10 West Division
Didn't ISU have top 5 or Top 10 SOS for several years? I don't know that Iowa's current schedule(s) compares to ISU's past B12 schedule(s), especially the round robin era. I could be wrong, but It seems like ISU schedule has come down to meet iowa's schedule, while iowa's have been elevated some. Again, could be wrong.
Okie State is a good comp for Wisconsin but the latter played in the b10W too and some the champ games were lopsided against them too.
