B1G 2024-2025 schedule model and opponents will be announced tomorrow
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One would hope that the one thing PSU demanded was a decent end of year game each year.
Playing home finales against the likes of Rutgers and Maryland, with 2/3 empty stands - while the rest of the big-time football world is making their final statements playing games like OSU-Michigan, USC-UCLA, Auburn-Alabama, TAMU-LSU, Florida-Florida State is the epitome of bush league.
Based on what we have seen thus far, the BEST they are likely to get for 2024 is Michigan State - and I'd wager dollars to donuts their 2025 season finale is Rutgers (with an outside shot at the powerhouse Minnesota Gophers)
Playing home finales against the likes of Rutgers and Maryland, with 2/3 empty stands - while the rest of the big-time football world is making their final statements playing games like OSU-Michigan, USC-UCLA, Auburn-Alabama, TAMU-LSU, Florida-Florida State is the epitome of bush league.
Based on what we have seen thus far, the BEST they are likely to get for 2024 is Michigan State - and I'd wager dollars to donuts their 2025 season finale is Rutgers (with an outside shot at the powerhouse Minnesota Gophers)
Nothing to disagree with here. However, the only way the stands are full is if it is a meaningful game. The only post-Thanksgiving home game that even came close to a full house was Sparty in 2016. Even then, the students weren't back yet but managed a half full or so student section IIRC. Announced attendance was 97k+ but in reality probably 10k less.
Agree, but only way Penn State is going to get a quality last game going forward is to find another name school outside of B1G to agree to being last game of season in an alternating home and home.
When ND eventually joins, they will be presumably be paired with USC, so our best bet is with the ACC schools in which case FSU or Miami would be most exciting IMHO.
UCLA would always be USC’s final game of the regular season, much like OSU-UM. Assuming that ND joins, ND would need to find some team other than USC to end their season with. In such a situation, who would be the logical candidate?
I'd bet on scenario #3. I'd imagine all teams submitted their preferred rivalry games, possibly in some sort of ranked order. The conference then likely reviewed which they considered must haves, aka OSU-UM, and nice to haves, aka anything PSU submitted.
Looking at the table I posted earlier, they may have also made a decision to give the four tier one programs - OSU, UM, PSU, USC - two games each against tier one opponents per season. Since OSU-UM is a must have protected game, the PSU-OSU game couldn't be protected unless you either (1) give OSU a third game against a tier 1 opponent or (2) decide that OSU will never get to play USC. I doubt the networks would allow the latter to happen, and I doubt OSU would agree to an extra tier one game unless each of UM, PSU and USC also all got a third tier one game. Doing that would put the conference right back where they are now with the top programs beating each other up and limiting possible playoff appearances. So the only compromise left on the table is to break up the PSU-OSU game.
Good thought, but didn't Kraft say in the BOT meeting that capacity will never dip below 100k, both during or after construction, with the plans they have in place?
It makes sense. I'd have liked to see our two big matchups be one home and one away though, for schedule balance. This is probably a one time deal, perhaps due to stadium renovation concerns as mentioned above. It creates a nice advantage for us in what is likely Allar's final year though, we need to be all in on a playoff run for 2024 because with 2025's road schedule it will be tough. UM is in the same situation only with the years flipped.
I like the way '24 is setting up for us. A lot.
5 home games, 4 away, none really tough. No Michigan. OSU at the Beav for the whiteout.
3rd (and possibly last) years for Allar, the backfield duo, King, Chop, and Abdul.
And hopefully Manny's hair will still be gracing the sideline.
5 home games, 4 away, none really tough. No Michigan. OSU at the Beav for the whiteout.
3rd (and possibly last) years for Allar, the backfield duo, King, Chop, and Abdul.
And hopefully Manny's hair will still be gracing the sideline.
Of all of those factors Manny not being there is the one that might be the most unlikely. I hope I'm wrong but we have the players on defense in 23 for another standout year, so he'll get offers and he's said publicly that he eventually wants to be a head coach again.
Diaz is gone after this year.
He is being paid by Miami (to the tune of, IIRC, 3-4 million per year) through 2023 - so there was/is no financial motivation for him to leave PSU until then.
That ends at that point - and PSU (or anyone else) surely isn't going to pay him that kind of scratch to be a DC. He will be elsewhere for 2024.
Rumor is he has a barber at Rinaldo's that he really likes. Some things are worth more than money.
It's a perfect setup for the TV folks on #2. OSU-Michigan at noon and then USC-UCLA in primetime.
First off, our biggest rival is the person in the scheduling office that keeps giving us the first conference game of the season on the road.
I'm not bugged all that much by no consistent 'rival'. Given OSU & Michigan's eliteness, do we really want to have to go through one or both of them in the regular season every damn time? If we see them in the conference championship, great. But I'm good with getting to play the entire conference over a 2-year period.
I'm not bugged all that much by no consistent 'rival'. Given OSU & Michigan's eliteness, do we really want to have to go through one or both of them in the regular season every damn time? If we see them in the conference championship, great. But I'm good with getting to play the entire conference over a 2-year period.
Probably better since they renovated it. Before that, it largely depended on where you sat and some locations simply were bad.
Apparently they have played 53 times.
Iowa–Nebraska football rivalry - Wikipedia
Seems to me Iowa is going to have some lopsided schedules. They could wind up with the big 4 in one year, and should see 2 or 3 regularly I would think.
Don't believe it's that simple. Both schools would have to either request or approve the pairing. But since PSU has a history of silently taking it up the wazzu, you might have a point.
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