Collegiate Sports

[NLionGuy]

ksquared,

is there a rule about when the conference teams can go up against each other... i.e. don't see why we can't drop some of the out of conference games to play every one... or am I just missing the math?

It's the $$$$$$$ - if they only played the other Big ten schools, it would be on a home/away schedule. Each school would have the same # of home games. By scheduling the also rans who are willing to play away for the money, they can end up with 6,7 or even 8 home games like we have this year:

08/31/02 Central Florida H 12:10 PM
09/14/02 Nebraska H 8:00 PM
09/21/02 Louisiana Tech H 12:10 PM
09/28/02 Iowa H
10/05/02 Wisconsin A
10/12/02 Michigan A
10/19/02 Northwestern H 12:10 PM
10/26/02 Ohio State A
11/02/02 Illinois H
11/09/02 Virginia H
11/16/02 Indiana A
11/23/02 Michigan State H

What low budget school wouldn't be willing to take a thrashing in front of 107,000 fans & at least regional TV for a paycheck in the millions?

BTW, that 8 game home schedule is certainly in our favor this year. Too bad 3 of the 4 away games are against you guys, OSU & Wisconsin. :(