A New Idea for B1G Football Scheduling

Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via Imagn Content Services, LLCWith the addition of Washington and Oregon into the Big Ten, the conference will need to revisit it’s still-fresh scheduling model that was created for a 16 team conference starting in 2024.

The previous model was called the Flex Protect Plus and features no divisions, 11 protected matchups and rotating conference opponents to ensure a home and home with all teams in a four-year stretch. Obviously, the schedules will need to be tweaked to include two additional teams but there may be another solution that would be kind on travel as well.

Here’s my proposal:

Divide into 3 pods which are as follows:

1. Washington, Oregon, UCLA,…