[Husker] Big Ten/Pac-12 Scheduling Agreement

[Mike Jaixen]

Pete Thamel confirms it, as does Iowa AD Gary Barta:  The B1G will stay at 8 conference games each year.  The Pac-12 game will replace the 9th conference game.


http://twitter.com/#!/PeteThamelNYT/status/152107255788089344

That means there will be 8 B1G games for the Huskers, 1 Pac-12 opponent, and three other non-conference games.  Iowa has stated they'll still play Iowa State each season.  Would Nebraska still look to play another BCS conference opponent in those three games?  I certainly hope so, though it might be a case where it's a Vanderbilt or Syracuse if a USC is on the schedule the same year.


 
Mike Jaixen
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 From: RJ Wessel <da_huskers at cox.net>
To: Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com>; mikejaixen at yahoo.com 
Cc: Husker List <husker at tssi.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Big Ten/Pac-12 Scheduling Agreement
 
Sounds like the 
B1G is going to revisit the 9 game conference schedule and may go back to 8 with this new deal. The PAC 12 sounds like they are still going to go to a 9 game conference scheduel
---- Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote: 

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> But with a 9 game conference schedule and a non-conference matchup with the
>  Pac-12, that pretty much means we'll never see an SEC team or Oklahoma in 
> Lincoln until we get a college football playoff.

A further tie-up between the Big Ten and the Pac 12 is stupid, IMHO, for
the reason given above.  

There is no guarantee that a playoff would involve any home games, in fact
a strong argument could be made against it just on the basis of weather
conditions.  The problem is that 'neutral sites' might not be all that
neutral and/or ticket sales might suffer.  But are ticket sales going to
be relevant in a playoff if ESPN or other networks are in the driver's
seat?  I rather doubt it.  
--
Mike Nolan

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