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What kind of wiggle room does the conference have...

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...in schedueling conference games? I ask this because I think it would benefit the conference to give BG the toughest competition possible (quality wins means higher rankings). So, say we remain in the west, wouldn't it benefit the conference to make sure we are schedueled against Miami and, say.....well.....okay everyone else in the east pretty much sucks. :wink: Maybe Kent won't be so bad next year? If we were to be moved to the east, wouldn't it benefit the conference to make sure our crossovers are NIU and Toledo?

Is there some kind of formula that the conference uses to determine crossovers, or is it pretty much up to the office in Cleveland who plays who?

I really would hate to see us be stuck next year playing Buffalo and Akron as our crossovers, especially if we manage to come away with wins out of Madison and Boise. If we get the best competition possible out of the MAC, that can only help our chances of getting to a coveted BCS spot. The conference would have quite a payday if we could do that...
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Keep us in the west and give us a home game with Miami and we'll probably have three crowds that approach 30,000 each. (we get UT and NIU at home also).
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Flipper wrote:Keep us in the west and give us a home game with Miami and we'll probably have three crowds that approach 30,000 each. (we get UT and NIU at home also).
...unless it's rainy, snowy, sleeting, dry, cold, warm, sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy, any combination of these, or if Ohio State is playing at the same time.

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Post by orangeandbrown »

This is not an exhibition sport, its a competition. To be fair, we should get the same rotation everyone else gets. We haven't won a conference championship since 1992, so we're not exactly dominating the current arrangement. Let's just win under the regular rules first.
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the secret to sellouts, two ranked teams.
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