What a lame graphic by Spielberg College.
Still, gotta appreciate the emphasis on
P E N N S T A T E N I T T A N Y L I O N S
Still, gotta appreciate the emphasis on
P E N N S T A T E N I T T A N Y L I O N S
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B1G 2024-2025 schedule model and opponents will be announced tomorrow
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This means Penn State will need to find someone to schedule as a rival to end the year. This is obviously the first step to renewing the yearly game against Pitt!!!
There's an easy resolution....WIN! Beat OSU and Michigan consistently and win B1G Titles. It's always been the answer. We just haven't done it enough.
PSU is in a unique situation regarding rivalries. We have new Big 10 rivals with relatively recent histories, and old Eastern rivals with longer histories. All of the Big 10 protected rivalry games are long-standing rivalries. PSU’s long-standing rivals are Eastern schools. But when PSU joined the Big 10, it gave up 30 years of consistent games with those teams. Of PSU’s Eastern rivals, only Maryland and Rutgers are Big 10 members. Those rivalries are very one sided in favor of PSU. Most of the Big 10 protected rivalry games are regional in interest. They are based on geography and tradition. Floyd of Rosedale is a cool trophy, but the game doesn’t have the same appeal as two highly ranked teams. PSU vs Michigan, Ohio State and USC are bigger draws. I wouldn’t be surprised if PSU took a pass on a protected rival game in favor of cycling through opponents to prevent staleness.
Two questions:
1. What team will PSU play as the final game of the season? A Big 10 team or OOC?
2. Will USC vs UCLA will be played the same day as The Game?
Two questions:
1. What team will PSU play as the final game of the season? A Big 10 team or OOC?
2. Will USC vs UCLA will be played the same day as The Game?
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For those who wish to have a protected rivalry game, who on Earth would you want to be stuck with? Everyone would be throwing a sh*t fit if it were OSU or Rutgers. Maybe USC?
I'd take OSU. Or USC. Or both actually. Much rather play big time teams than Rutgers or Maryland.
Seems nobody got stuck with two tier-one opponents, so they wouldn’t do that to OSU. USC maybe, but would USC agree to that when they’re already stuck with ND plus the Big Ten?
Might help if PSU ever stood up for itself. Difficult position to assume when it so loves taking it up the wazzu.
Why wouldn't it be? The Game is played at 12 noon EST, and the Mayor's Cup Game can be played at 4 pm EST, which is 1 pm on the West Coast. So......yeah......
Response to the scheduling has been very positive amongst the talking heads on social media. Definitely a bigger response than the SEC got with Texas and Oklahoma. Very exciting noting NBC is a big partner with the B1G now and ND has a new TV contract looming (and they just hired a former NBC exec as their AD); wonder if they can sweeten the pot enough to get ND on board?
So we'll play everyone else at least twice with the four year schedule system. The good thing about Flex Protect Plus (I hope they trademark that) is that we'll play the Iowa mouth breathers ONLY twice since they have three other opponents locked in. Other schools will sometimes be played thrice, especially those with only one protected rival. Those with one are Maryland, Rutgers, OSU, MSU, Indiana, NW, Nebraska, USC, and UCLA. So over time we'll see those nine a bit more often than Michigan, Purdue, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.
The AD has the questions and answers to this right now anything else is speculation. Maybe more to the story that meets the eye.
My take is that OSU puts a lot of time and effort into the PSU game , but they'll deny that. MSU is probably the most common sense but they play Michigan already. I think USC also makes sense but that ND series also carries too much strength same goes if ND comes into the Big. Iowa has Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska , so Nebraska could work too.
My take is that OSU puts a lot of time and effort into the PSU game , but they'll deny that. MSU is probably the most common sense but they play Michigan already. I think USC also makes sense but that ND series also carries too much strength same goes if ND comes into the Big. Iowa has Wisconsin, Minnesota and Nebraska , so Nebraska could work too.
USC typically plays ND the last game when it is their turn for a home game in the series. Will the B1G allow this to continue and impact another conference team’s scheduling?
If B1G makes USC-UCLA the last game every season, there aren’t going to be many options for PSU’s last game besides MSU, unless RU-MD stop being a final game.
We'll play Mercer. Or Temple. Or Kent State. Or maybe that will be our Bye week?
I would imgaine they would, as that would mean that the networks have a guaranteed west coast game for an East Coast audience.
And besids - Eff Notre Dame.
I believe I saw somewhere that RU/MSU/MD will be on a rotating basis for PSU as the last game.
Isn't 2025 the year the West stands are supposed to be ripped apart...might be for the best that the 2025 home schedule sucks, so when it's not finished in time for football there is less bitching
We really do not have any rivals. I believe this schedule is basically what Penn Sate wanted. The Big Ten finaly listened to Penn State for once. It also made their scheduling job easier, so they were fine with the idea.
This is exactly right. I do not like the Big Ten. It was the only viable option available at the time and it turned out to be a giant money shower. However, we will never truly be at home in this conference. It is designed to favor the Legacy Powers. Anyway, there is nothing to be done about it now.
We do not have a rival. Penn State no doubt had that input to the Big Ten and it was input that made their scheduling task far easier so they took it and ran with it.
I like it. We’re always a Big Ten Member, with an asterisk. Lean into it!
Okay, let’s list the possibilities.
1. PSU requested that they not be assigned any protected rival.
2. PSU overlooked the memo and forgot to request a protected rival.
3. PSU requested at least one protected rival but the B1G said nfw.
I’ve got no idea but do imagine that Kraft will be asked what’s what. I think it has to be either 1 or 3. Kraft would never admit 2, anyway, but details of those sort of screwups tend to leak. The media will ask these specific questions for sure.
Kraft answers #1 regardless of what happened. Then it's matter of whether his rationale withstands scrutiny.
Doubt that 2 is the case. Started by thinking that 1 and 3 are equiprobable, but and gradually moving to the belief that it's 3.
4. Big Ten forgot Penn State is a member of the conference.
Trying to picture possible scenarios of #3. Here’s one: PSU asked for OSU but was denied because OSU already has Michigan and didn’t want to play both UM and PSU every year. (Just saying: I’m catching up on the thread and it’s possible that someone had already made this particular suggestion. I respect priority.)
Pretty much my thinking. Also possible that PSU requested Rutgers and/or Maryland (my reasoning is unimportant so I'll skip it) and both said "no."
Interesting. I was also thinking that maybe Maryland had requested PSU (think of the sellouts for MD home games) but PSU said no. Whatevs.
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