2017 Wisconsin Football Thread

[Fear The Chorizo]

The fact the SEC and ACC get to schedule those joke Mercer/Citadel games in mid-November essentially gives them both a bye at a critical point in conference play (right before rivalry week) to get healthy too. It's a huge deal, and it's a shame they're not called out more for it. Because of that setup, I've been a proponent to having the Big Ten shift to a 10 game conference schedule - it limits scheduling cupcakes themselves and gives talking heads even less reason to overlook their conference champion come playoff time.

 

And proclaiming Nebraska a cupcake will get old really, really quick. They were ranked in the top 10 when WI played them in 2016, and will be back to that level in relatively short order.

[homer]

I was pointing out that there are a lot of cupcakes in the B1G each year, and that your arguments of "well the B1G plays 9 conference games where the SEC plays 8" is not a good argument that B1G teams play a tougher schedule. When WI gets to play Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota Or OSU getting to play Rutgers, Indiana, and Maryland each year vs playing Ole Miss, Miss St, and Arkansas each year, that's night and day.

 

Any B1G team is better than Mercer.

[GAME05]

The NCAA always says they want teams to schedule tough opponents, and that strength of schedule matters, but in the end teams really aren't punished for it at all.

[brwrsfan]

The NCAA always says they want teams to schedule tough opponents, and that strength of schedule matters, but in the end teams really aren't punished for it at all.

 

Well they do punish them...if you're in the B10. Being in the SEC seems to overrule anything else.