Got bored by PSU vs SMU so flipped over to the basketball game. Instant classic. It's worth checking out the highlights.

After their talking about the B1G maybe not being as good as the ACC and the Big XII, well, here’s our 2nd/3rd best team waxing the best the ACC offered up. Question answered for the SEC bootlickers.

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Notre Dame 27 Indiana 20

Penn State 30 SMU 14

Ohio State 28 Tennessee 17

We all know that football divisions are controversial, who gets put where, how to protect rivalry games, regular travel, etc. but we also know the current schedule set up is really really dumb. Trying to round robin 18 teams doesn’t work well to ensure the best teams are in the playoff.

So, we have 18 teams, 18 divides into 3 really well.

So we have 3, 6 team divisions.

Main goal is to maintain rivalries Second goal is to help with travel

Division 1 Illinois Purdue Northwestern IU USC UCLA

Reasoning - PUR has a rivalry games with ILL and IU. ILL has rivalry games with NW and PUR. NW and IU only have 1 rivalry game. USC and UCLA have only rivalry games against each other.

Division 2 Iowa Minn Neb Wisc Wash Oregon

Reasoning - same as Div 1 for OG B1G schools and Wash/Oregon have an internal rivalry

Division 3 Michigan tOSU MSU Maryland Rutgers PSU

Reasoning Michigan has rivalry games with MSU and tOSU. Maryland and Rutgers have an internal rivalry and are closer to the other 3 than any group of 4 in Div1 or Div2. PSU has no rivalry games.

The Championship is playing between the 2 Division Winners with best record.

Notes:

UCLA/USC can be swapped with Wash/Oregon in Div 1 and Div 2.

Div 3 is uncommonly strong and will likely result in many B1G winners coming from Div 3 but that winner and the 2nd team would have a good road to CFP depending on how heavily SoS is weighed after this year. Probably a better shot than winner of Div1 or 2 even if those teams had better records.

Schedule would be 9 conference games. 5 against your Div opponents. 2 against other Div opponents (both Divs), 1 Home/1 Away. These will rotate and not be previous years 1v1, 2v2, etc.

If the B1G brings in 2 more schools, the break down might still work if you have 5, 4 team divisions.

In this week's episode, we discussed Rutgers' two-win week, Illinois going down to the wire with #1 Tennessee, the Indy Classic, Indiana's week, and UCLA-Arizona before diving into the week ahead in non-conference games.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kyh0AbSEC9VB8b0LTgNdQ?si=9a99499d8ec147b6

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-buzzer-beaters-some-atomic-brickfests-and-ucla/id1592036379?i=1000680632746

I feel like throughout history the south always needs some identity to separate themselves from every one else and to stress that they’re better.

Confederacy

SEC

Catch my drift?

I calculated the average win percentage of each team's conference schedule for next season and used the average conference win percentage as the tiebreaker. So here is the list of those who have the most challenging road ahead of them so far.

1. Wisconsin
2. Iowa
3. Penn State
4. Rutgers
5. Purdue
6. Oregon
7. Michigan State
8. Northwestern
9. UCLA
10. Maryland
11. Washington
12. Indiana
13. Minnesota
14. Ohio State
15. USC
16. Nebraska
17. Illinois
18. Michigan

Broken into tiers:

• Oh ****!!
  • Wisconsin
• Oof
  • Iowa
  • Penn State
  • Rutgers
  • Purdue
• Hard
  • Oregon
  • Michigan State
  • Northwestern
  • UCLA
• Average
  • Maryland
  • Washington
  • Indiana
  • Minnesota
  • Ohio State
  • USC
  • Nebraska
• Easy
  • Illinois
• Cupcake
  • Michigan

Finally, here's the table:

|| || |Team|Opp Avg Win %|Opp Avg Conf Win %|

|WIS|0.69|0.63|

|IOWA|0.64|0.58|

|PSU|0.63|0.56|

|RUTG|0.62|0.57|

|PUR|0.62|0.56|

|ORE|0.59|0.55|

|MSU|0.59|0.53|

|NU|0.58|0.53|

|UCLA|0.58|0.50|

|MD|0.56|0.48|

|WASH|0.56|0.47|

|IU|0.55|0.48|

|MINN|0.54|0.46|

|OSU|0.53|0.47|

|USC|0.53|0.46|

|NEB|0.52|0.47|

|ILL|0.50|0.42|

|MICH|0.44|0.34|

I’ve used Paramount Plus to watch the B10 games all season, but last week for the B10 Championship game and now this week for the Army/Navy game I cannot watch because I don’t have the +Showtime add-on.

Has there been any news that this will be the way it is going forward?

Championship Week Power Rankings:

That was a hell of a CCG, and B1G newbies Oregon have taken home the crown! Oregon, Penn State, Ohio State, and Indiana will all represent the conference in the first 12-team playoffs of the CFP while much of the rest of the conference will head off to warmer climes for their bowl game (also Nebraska has to go to The Bronx). Let's see how well the conference does!

I plan to have one more voting period once the final B1G team plays in their postseason game, whenever that ends up happening. Make sure to come here when that happens and vote vote vote!

For team standings and records, visit the /r/TheB1G sidebar.

Schedules and Results

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Prev. is the Rank from the previous week.

Change is the change in average rank from the previous week.

Variance is a measure of how much agreement there was between voters. A zero means all voters ranked a team the same, and a higher number means a team's ranking was more controversial.

B1G vs everybody

For the real schedule nerds in here. It looks like 6 teams have no non-conference games scheduled Week 3, those being: MSU, Purdue, Oregon, USC, Washington, and one of Northwestern or Rutgers

Assuming the B1G will want avoid early year rivalry games, only one combination of matchups really works, here’s your likely Week 3 conference slate: -Michigan State at USC -Purdue at Washington -Oregon at Northwestern/Rutgers

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