Big Ten Football 2024

Which Big Ten Team(s) Quality For The CFP In 2024

  • Illinois

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Indiana

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Iowa

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Maryland

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Michigan

    Votes: 3 50.0%

  • Michigan State

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Minnesota

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nebraska

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • Northwestern

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ohio State

    Votes: 5 83.3%

  • Oregon

    Votes: 5 83.3%

  • Penn State

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • Purdue

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Rutgers

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Southern Cal

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • UCLA

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Washington

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Wisconsin

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Total voters
    6
  • Poll closed .
lol. Ohio State’s schedule, year in and year out is not demonstrably less difficult than anyone else. It’s nonsense to suggest that. Now a team that never has to play a conference championship game is most certainly playing a schedule which is demonstrably easier than those who do.
 
14Red said:
Just slightly. But the major issue is the inferior schedule the Buckeyes get to play, year after year when other schools play a much more challenging schedule. At least with the few additions to the big ten, and the change in the big ten championship game, it's not a cakewalk as much.

You can pretty much mark it down today. Ohio State/ Oregon play in the regular season, and they'll likely play in the big ten championship game, and honestly both will likely make the playoffs.
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Nonsense...The Buckeyes have a few cupcakes but typically schedule a worthy out of conference opponent. Add the conference grind and championship, that's a tough schedule. Let me know the other schools that "play a much more challenging schedule".
 
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Gbulldog said:
Nonsense...The Buckeyes have a few cupcakes but typically schedule a worthy out of conference opponent. Add the conference grind and championship, that's a tough schedule. Let me know the other schools that "play a much more challenging schedule".
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Oh boy, drinking the cool aid. I was born, just not yesterday. Ohio State has played a legit non-conf opponent about one out of every 3 years. This year is one with Oregon and it's actually on the ROAD for a change. There is no such thing as a conference grind for the Buckeyes. They are traditionally an either high single digit or double digit favorite every game. Michigan was good the last two years but I think we'll see that maybe all their work will be wiped out eventually. Michigan State hasn't been good for years. Penn State is a top 20-25 team, they struggle offensively and seem to never figure out the QB.
I've said this for years, you take the top 2-3 teams from both divisions of the SEC and their schedules are considerably better and they actually have home field advantage at some schools down there no matter how their season is going.
 
Omega said:
Ah, we are entering the "peak boredom" period of the college football offseason. Time to try and jump start some discussion about the upcoming Big 10(18) season. 2024 sees the addition of four former PAC 12 teams and the opportunity to qualify more than one school in the new 12 team playoff. So maybe the best question to ask is who qualifies for the CFP rather than who wins the conference championship.

Ohio State and Oregon are obvious choices, but Michigan, PSU, USC, and Washington cannot be discounted. Even Nebraska, Iowa, Rutgers, and Wisconsin have reason for optimism. Could 4 teams from the Big make it?

So cast your votes and please offer your thoughts in the comments.
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Since you boys appear to have paid off the schedule makers with NIL monies. I'd say EVERYBODY with three or fewer losses, make the playoff. And RUTGERS gets a first-round bye, with a 12-0 record, after having played NOONE. While possible three loss SEC teams cannibalize themselves, for two, possibly three spots.
 
Gbulldog said:
Nonsense...The Buckeyes have a few cupcakes but typically schedule a worthy out of conference opponent. Add the conference grind and championship, that's a tough schedule. Let me know the other schools that "play a much more challenging schedule".
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Picture in your mind's eye, if you will. A Rutgers team who goes 12-0 and gets a BYE. While possibly UGA'S best team EVER, sits home after three hard fought losses on the ROAD, against eight top fifteen teams. NO TEAM can bring their A GAME eight times, in a twelve game regular season.
 
SWGA Fan said:
Picture in your mind's eye, if you will. A Rutgers team who goes 12-0 and gets a BYE. While possibly UGA'S best team EVER, sits home after three hard fought losses on the ROAD, against eight top fifteen teams. NO TEAM can bring their A GAME eight times, in a twelve game regular season.
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Agree. Thats my point. Conference games are tough to win. You're going a little off the deep end using Rutgers as an example.
 
Crusaders said:
Hard to believe Northwestern couldn't come up with a better alternative. Why not Soldier?
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I believe there are too many scheduling difficulties with Soldier Field since it already hosts the Bears and Chicago Fire games.

Northwestern games at the temporary stadium this year are:
Miami (OH)
Duke
Eastern Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin

Ohio State and Illinois games are at Wrigley Field since baseball will be over by November. (And likely well before November for the Cubs.)

Even though Ryan Field held 47,000 or so, most games except big-name opponents saw a half-full stadium, at best. For example, last September, Northwestern had attendance of 15K for UTEP and 20K for Minnesota.

The temporary stadium holds 15K and has the benefit of being on campus (Ryan Field is nearby but a mile or so northwest of campus). It’ll probably be nearly sufficient for the first four games. The only game where a ton of people get shut out is all the Wisconsin fans who show up to Evanston in droves.
 
14Red said:
Oh boy, drinking the cool aid. I was born, just not yesterday. Ohio State has played a legit non-conf opponent about one out of every 3 years. This year is one with Oregon and it's actually on the ROAD for a change. There is no such thing as a conference grind for the Buckeyes. They are traditionally an either high single digit or double digit favorite every game. Michigan was good the last two years but I think we'll see that maybe all their work will be wiped out eventually. Michigan State hasn't been good for years. Penn State is a top 20-25 team, they struggle offensively and seem to never figure out the QB.
I've said this for years, you take the top 2-3 teams from both divisions of the SEC and their schedules are considerably better and they actually have home field advantage at some schools down there no matter how their season is going.
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https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/ranking/schedule-strength-by-other?date=2024-08-22

TOSU strength of schedule
2018-2019 year end rank - 15
2019-2020 year end rank - 1
2020-2021 year end rank - 1
2021-2022 year end rank - 4
2022-2023 year end rank - 3
2023-2024 year end rank - 2
2024-2025 year START rank - 2

You’re a clown!
 
The Big Ten playing Washington football classics on BTN is weird. The Big Ten trying to make claim to the new PAC teams past history is weak sauce/cringey.
 
I hate kickers, and Minnesota just illustrated why the B1G is the B1G. Too many mediocre programs. They had North Carolina at home on national tv and they choke away what would have been a solid win over the ACC.
 
cjb5656 said:
I hate kickers, and Minnesota just illustrated why the B1G is the B1G. Too many mediocre programs. They had North Carolina at home on national tv and they choke away what would have been a solid win over the ACC.
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Nobody is buying Minnesota as a national power
 
Maybe winnable, but I wouldn’t expect them to win. North Carolina has a lot more talent than Minnesota.

North Carolina has a top-25 composite roster and 30 blue chippers. Minnesota is 45th in composite roster and has 12 blue chippers. On paper it was the 4th best ACC team on the road at the 13th best Big Ten team.
 
Michigan State is pretty bad. This was a very ugly game.

Spartans will probably be fortunate if they eke out a 6-6 record and bowl eligibility.
 
Vanderbilt 34
Virginia Tech 27

When I expressed my disappointment about Fleck and Minny losing to North Carolina that Vanderbilt score is a good example of what I was driving at. The B1G schools not named Ohio State, Michigan or Penn State can’t be counted on to get wins over even middling Power 4 teams. The SEC lower tier teams get those wins. There is just too much dead wood in the B1G. Especially with the amount of money they rake in compared to those ACC and Big 12 teams.
 
cjb5656 said:
Vanderbilt 34
Virginia Tech 27

When I expressed my disappointment about Fleck and Minny losing to North Carolina that Vanderbilt score is a good example of what I was driving at. The B1G schools not named Ohio State, Michigan or Penn State can’t be counted on to get wins over even middling Power 4 teams. The SEC lower tier teams get those wins. There is just too much dead wood in the B1G. Especially with the amount of money they rake in compared to those ACC and Big 12 teams.
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Couldn’t agree more.
 
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