Big Ten/Pac-12 to enter regular season scheduling agreement in 2017

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From teh Twittarz:

@PeteThamelNYC: BREAKING: Pac-12 and Big Ten enter scheduling agreement. All 12 teams playing an inter-league football game starting 2017.

I like it.

Edit: USA Today has deetz (http://www.usatoday....ment/52253122/1).

Edit 2: Gut reactions:

1) We already have Tennessee as a non-con that year, and,

2) Looks like we might be seeing Colorado again one day. :P

 
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The article says that with this news, Delaney is rethinking the nine-game conference schedule idea. And the Big Ten let out a collective sigh of relief.

 
IMO this is a bad idea.

What you are effectively doing is making it more difficult to schedule OOC games against Big Name non Pac 12 BCS teams as you're already locked into an OOC away game each other year. Which will have a negative effect on recruiting the south and south east regions for the conference.

Plus the Big Ten is already regarded as too much of a mid-west centric conference why make that stereotype even more engrained? - Expecially if it makes it tougher for certain teams to continue playing other traditional OOC opponents, IE Notre Dame, Pitt etc.

Also probably inflames the whole Penn State resentments of not being Eastern leaning enough.

Not to mention the timezone issues and the fact that noone cares about Pac 12 football outside of the Pac 12 aside from the Rose Bowl game.

FAR too many negatives and not anywhere near enough positives IMO. If Big Ten teams want to schedule series with Pac 12 teams they can do that without the league mandating they do it.

 
Blackshirt316 said:
IMO this is a bad idea.

What you are effectively doing is making it more difficult to schedule OOC games against Big Name non Pac 12 BCS teams as you're already locked into an OOC away game each other year. Which will have a negative effect on recruiting the south and south east regions for the conference.

Plus the Big Ten is already regarded as too much of a mid-west centric conference why make that stereotype even more engrained? - Expecially if it makes it tougher for certain teams to continue playing other traditional OOC opponents, IE Notre Dame, Pitt etc.

Also probably inflames the whole Penn State resentments of not being Eastern leaning enough.

Not to mention the timezone issues and the fact that noone cares about Pac 12 football outside of the Pac 12 aside from the Rose Bowl game.

FAR too many negatives and not anywhere near enough positives IMO. If Big Ten teams want to schedule series with Pac 12 teams they can do that without the league mandating they do it.
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I don't see it as a bad thing, having Colorado (the most likely choice for NU) replace South Dakota State (and the like) is a good thing. He's also saying that they may not go to a 9 game conference schedule so NU would still get to play to creampuffs. Colorado will just replace the lower division teams like Wake Forest and then we keep the Tennessee's, Miami's, and Oklahoma's (ok, I'm dreaming there) as our marque OOC game. But even if they go to the 9 game schedule, NU will be ok if we are as good as we all hope we will be by that time. I have no problem with a cream puff, CU and a OU type OOC every year.

 
Blackshirt316 said:
IMO this is a bad idea.

What you are effectively doing is making it more difficult to schedule OOC games against Big Name non Pac 12 BCS teams as you're already locked into an OOC away game each other year. Which will have a negative effect on recruiting the south and south east regions for the conference.

Plus the Big Ten is already regarded as too much of a mid-west centric conference why make that stereotype even more engrained? - Expecially if it makes it tougher for certain teams to continue playing other traditional OOC opponents, IE Notre Dame, Pitt etc.

Also probably inflames the whole Penn State resentments of not being Eastern leaning enough.

Not to mention the timezone issues and the fact that noone cares about Pac 12 football outside of the Pac 12 aside from the Rose Bowl game.

FAR too many negatives and not anywhere near enough positives IMO. If Big Ten teams want to schedule series with Pac 12 teams they can do that without the league mandating they do it.
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AGREED!

I like the idea of having a "partnership" but why not do it with the big dogs in the SEC...

I think the B1G/PAC-12 arrangement is fatally flawed! If no one is watching PAC-12 football now, why would we want to boost their ratings..........

OH YEAH......FOX SPORTS!!!

This is so easy to see through it is laughable!!! FOX has dictated to us and the PAC-12 that they want us to have "national" appeal and pull viewers away from the SEC driven ESPN machine!

We have now joined the arms race against ESPN/SEC and we're light years behind!!!

 
HuskerBob4 said:
AGREED!
I like the idea of having a "partnership" but why not do it with the big dogs in the SEC...

I think the B1G/PAC-12 arrangement is fatally flawed! If no one is watching PAC-12 football now, why would we want to boost their ratings..........

OH YEAH......FOX SPORTS!!!

This is so easy to see through it is laughable!!! FOX has dictated to us and the PAC-12 that they want us to have "national" appeal and pull viewers away from the SEC driven ESPN machine!

We have now joined the arms race against ESPN/SEC and we're light years behind!!!
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lol. Did you read the article? ABC/ESPN/BTN/Pac-12 Network AND Fox will all be broadcasting games.

 
I hope this doesn't turn into a superconference. I'd rather form one with the remnants of the Big XII or SEC than the Pac-12. Well actually now that I think about it I'd rather not have one at all.

 
If I had to guess, FOX is the likely connection behind this decision. Both BTN and the future Pac-12 Network are co-partnered by FOX News Corp. At the end of the day, this is a business move to bolster both respective FOX-based networks and here's the key reason why:

Together, the Big Ten and Pac-12 encompass 15 states holding 43% of the nation's population and 22 of its top 50 television markets.
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papersun87 said:
HuskerBob4 said:
AGREED!
I like the idea of having a "partnership" but why not do it with the big dogs in the SEC...

I think the B1G/PAC-12 arrangement is fatally flawed! If no one is watching PAC-12 football now, why would we want to boost their ratings..........

OH YEAH......FOX SPORTS!!!

This is so easy to see through it is laughable!!! FOX has dictated to us and the PAC-12 that they want us to have "national" appeal and pull viewers away from the SEC driven ESPN machine!

We have now joined the arms race against ESPN/SEC and we're light years behind!!!
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lol. Did you read the article? ABC/ESPN/BTN/Pac-12 Network AND Fox will all be broadcasting games.
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Some people just like spouting off without having the facts :moreinteresting

 
papersun87 said:
HuskerBob4 said:
AGREED!
I like the idea of having a "partnership" but why not do it with the big dogs in the SEC...

I think the B1G/PAC-12 arrangement is fatally flawed! If no one is watching PAC-12 football now, why would we want to boost their ratings..........

OH YEAH......FOX SPORTS!!!

This is so easy to see through it is laughable!!! FOX has dictated to us and the PAC-12 that they want us to have "national" appeal and pull viewers away from the SEC driven ESPN machine!

We have now joined the arms race against ESPN/SEC and we're light years behind!!!
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lol. Did you read the article? ABC/ESPN/BTN/Pac-12 Network AND Fox will all be broadcasting games.
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Fox means Fox OTA (Over the Air), like CBS or ABC, not Fox Sports or FX.

During the latest rounds of contract negotiations and conference affiliation changes, Fox OTA won the rights to the Pac-12 and Big 10 title games, and is expected to be a major player in the upcoming SEC (CBS' current 2nd tier broadcast rights) and Big 10 (ABC/ESPN 1st and 2nd tier rights) contract bidding in the upcoming years. Plus, Fox Cable has expanded Fox Sports' coverage to FX for second and third-tier nationwide broadcast rights.

Fox OTA has been looking for a perfect time to jump into broadcasting college football on Saturdays--there's a definite weakness in the ABC/ESPN offering (especially if you're not Texass or from the SEC), and they're losing advertising money and viewership on Saturday to their rivals. They've been amassing a war chest to bid with, and they're primed to use it.

Nexus said:
If I had to guess, FOX is the likely connection behind this decision. Both BTN and the future Pac-12 Network are co-partnered by FOX News Corp.
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You are correct. Fox is sucking up to the Big 10 something fierce, as they want the Big 10 and possibly part of the SEC (the CBS rights) to become the flagship for a Fox OTA Saturday broadcast to compete and steal money/viewership from ESPN/ABC/Disney/WaltDisney'sFrozenHead.

Expect to see more of this as we get closer to contract negotiation time. While it's not up until 2015, I would think that they will begin farming out/bidding late 2012.

 
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If you look at the past two decades of our schedule, this really shouldn't be that big of a deal. Heck, in the 90's we played a PAC-10 team every year, sometimes even two teams. As a fan I'd much rather see us playing one of these teams then South Dakota State. I'm not a big fan of FOX doing the bowl games but I think the BTN is by far the best conference network. FOX needs to take the next step, pay the cash and start doing weekly national games like ABC does when the contract comes up. Then hire some real announcers and treat college football like college football, not the NFL. That would go a long ways with me.

It is scary to think that this could be the next step of the super conference. Next will be an agreement like this with the SEC or ACC or maybe Big 12 if it is still around and if you aren't in one of these conferences, it will be next to impossible to schedule against any of these teams and the super conference will be born. Everyone else will be considered in a lower division.

 
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