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 Originally Posted by kb coolman
 Originally Posted by Lukie
I think people really underestimate how big of a disadvantage the big ten is in bowl games due to how far they have to travel to play de facto road games...
well, no on on this board. You bring it up in every college FB thread.  And who can blame West Coast and Southern teams for not wanting to play December/January football in the Northeast? :shiver:
I agree.. I can't blame them whatsoever. My ideal solution would be a playoff at the end of the college football season with home field advantage determined by something reasonable, such as rank or record. This wouldn't completely eliminate controversy, but it would be a gigantic step forward from the current system.
 Originally Posted by Lukie
...and the amount of time they have off because their season inexplicably ends so early.
Self imposed beurocratic bullshit, IMO.[/quote]
Yeah, the Big Ten universities are shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. Usually Ohio State schedules out of conference games something like this-- 2 cupcake games, 1 big out of conference game (e.g. Texas, Washington, USC), then the Big Ten schedule, always capped with Michigan in the final week. I'd like to see them move one of the cupcake games to two weeks after the Michigan game. Of course, this means the probability of that actually happening is about 0.
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