scheduling 2011+

[bws258]

The math works for a five year cycle, if you do a five year cycle, you will play everyone twice in that time, and you will never miss anyone for more than two straight seasons. The current even/off home & home format will not work if there are protected inter-divisional rivals.

If "A" is your protected inter-divisional rival, and "B,C,D,E,F" are the other teams in the opposite division, it would look like this:

2011: A, @B, C
2012: @A, E, @F
2013: A, @C, @D
2014: @A, B, F
2015: A, D, @E

if the Big Ten stays at 8 conference game, just repeat every five years. But they are not staying at 8 games. So, you send up with this:

2016: A, @B, C, @D
2017: @A, E, @F, B
2018: A, @C, D, @E
2019: @A, F, @B, C
2020: A, @D, E, @F

2021-2025 switch home teams and repeat. Advantage: never miss a team more than one year at a time.

 

[H8IAST8]

What happens when they go to 9 games in 2015?

 

[eyekwah]

The 2011 schedule was:
@WI
Ill
@PSU
@PU
MI
IU
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@OSU
Mn

In looking at the schedule for 2011 it certainly looks like it will be drastically different. Based on Miller's division breakout six of the eight games are against members of the east division, in bold. Games against MSU, NE, and NW would have to replace three scheduled games. It is safe to assume Mn would remain on the schedule. These are the games that could be dropped: WI, PSU, IU, and OSU.

Next year's schedule looks like the following: MI, NE, MN, NW, MSU, IL, plus 2 more. Purdue has been off the schedule for 2 years so that might be a consideration. The last game is probably either PSU or OSU.

And we were upset about being in the east when next years schedule would have been the east.