This may be one of the worst years ever for the big ten. Nebraska got absolutely smashed by Ohio State, not competitive at all. Scott Frost will want to head back to Florida. Not going to get it done in Nebraska. Michigan State barely got by Indiana. Michigan got a breather with Rutgers. And probably the bigger, unnoted game was Wisconsin, struggling at home with a 1-3 Northwestern team. Wisconsin will win the incredibly weak west division, then get drilled by Ohio State. I really see Ohio State having a cake walk to the playoffs. Yet we'll really not know how good they are.
Agreed. Who's going to want that Rutgers job in the B1G East? Despite some posts on here, the B1G is a quality football conference. Rutgers just does not fit that bill. They haven't really had recent success and they aren't a blue blood program either. Can they do better than an OSU assistant? Firing Ash after a blowout loss to Michigan... what did they expect? They're 1-3 on the season and their only other winnable game this season was vs. Boston College. Seems like a bad time to make a change and a bad move by Rutgers.Rutgers has fired Ash as the HC. Commence Schiano watch. With the divisional schedule and their current place in that hierarchy, it's hard to imagine somebody else stepping in and making them half-respectable within a few years.
Agreed. Who's going to want that Rutgers job in the B1G East? Despite some posts on here, the B1G is a quality football conference. Rutgers just does not fit that bill. They haven't really had recent success and they aren't a blue blood program either. Can they do better than an OSU assistant? Firing Ash after a blowout loss to Michigan... what did they expect? They're 1-3 on the season and their only other winnable game this season was vs. Boston College. Seems like a bad time to make a change and a bad move by Rutgers.
I think Ohio State is a lock for one of the playoff spots, undefeated team from a power 5 school. I can't imagine they have a close game all season. We just won't know how good they are until the playoff game.You and Heather Dinich are the only ding bats still clamoring for a four team SEC playoff.
Rutgers will always be a door mat for the big ten. They are just not worthy of being in the league, but they are getting all that TV big ten money, so they could be worse off? They just have to be like 10 of the other conference schools and just plan on never being in the playoff picture in football.Agreed. Who's going to want that Rutgers job in the B1G East? Despite some posts on here, the B1G is a quality football conference. Rutgers just does not fit that bill. They haven't really had recent success and they aren't a blue blood program either. Can they do better than an OSU assistant? Firing Ash after a blowout loss to Michigan... what did they expect? They're 1-3 on the season and their only other winnable game this season was vs. Boston College. Seems like a bad time to make a change and a bad move by Rutgers.
I think Ohio State is a lock for one of the playoff spots, undefeated team from a power 5 school. I can't imagine they have a close game all season. We just won't know how good they are until the playoff game.
They were good that one year until they played Clemson, then we found out. Being good in the big ten doesn't prove anything.Plenty of people will know how good they are. You're an execption.
They were good that one year until they played Clemson, then we found out. Being good in the big ten doesn't prove anything.
Fixing college football (as much as we can)
1. get scheduling away from the schools. It's hard enough to evaluate teams that don't play each other. Then you allow teams to play cupcakes non-conference.
2. do away with the conferences. Come up with 64 teams for competitive D1 football. Place these teams into 8 / 8 team divisions regionally. You play everyone in your division, that's 7 games. Then you play 3 "crossover" games with a team from another division. Heck, let the networks set that schedule if you want great TV matchups. So that's 10 games, 10 LEGITIMATE games.
3. Either do away with bye weeks or limit them to 1.
Awhile ago, I played around with the idea of a promotion/relegation system for college football as a way to improve the season while keeping the current FBS teams in the loop. I settled on a 3-tier system (called the College Football Series) in which teams could move between tiers based on performance (on-field and attendance) over a 4-year period. I based the tiers on competitiveness, market size, and stadium capacity: