Among other items in Shatell's column in this mormings World Herald is the following tid bit:
"It's not too soon to speculate on divisional lineups. We assume that Nebraska would fit with Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Northwestern. With 12 teams, the rotation could look a lot like the Big 12's rotation: five division games and a rotation of three in the other division every two years. So NU would play Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State at the same rate it plays Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M now."
As is known by Big 12 members, NU never played OU and UT in the same regular season. The schedules were simply manipulated so they didn't have to, unlike ISU and others. I was once challenged on this point by a NU fan who told me that computers make up schedules, and NU has no control over that. I guess he forgot that computers do what ever people tell them to do.
At any rate, I'm just wondering how easily Mr. Osborne and the NU faithful will be able to broker some kind of deal to ensure that they play only one of the three in any one season; or no more than two. I remember Iowa not having to play MU and OSU for two seasons a couple of years ago, but that rarely happened if ever before that.
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"It's not too soon to speculate on divisional lineups. We assume that Nebraska would fit with Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Northwestern. With 12 teams, the rotation could look a lot like the Big 12's rotation: five division games and a rotation of three in the other division every two years. So NU would play Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State at the same rate it plays Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M now."
As is known by Big 12 members, NU never played OU and UT in the same regular season. The schedules were simply manipulated so they didn't have to, unlike ISU and others. I was once challenged on this point by a NU fan who told me that computers make up schedules, and NU has no control over that. I guess he forgot that computers do what ever people tell them to do.
At any rate, I'm just wondering how easily Mr. Osborne and the NU faithful will be able to broker some kind of deal to ensure that they play only one of the three in any one season; or no more than two. I remember Iowa not having to play MU and OSU for two seasons a couple of years ago, but that rarely happened if ever before that.
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