West Coast expansion presents several challenges for the Midwest-based conference.
The Big Ten rolled out its football schedules from 2024-28 Thursday, a radical revision of the previous slate that came out in the summer due to the inclusion of Oregon and Washington. With four schools now on the West Coast and 18 total members, the conference is working an ambitious juggling act of travel demands, rivalry retention and competitive balance.
In total, the Big Ten scheduled 405 games over the next five years. Although the league “reset the deck,” in the words of chief operating officer Kerry Kenny, there are no repeat matchups in the same location from this year’s schedule. “We went right to work, knowing we didn’t really have the benefit of time,” Kenny said. “But we did have a model in place. We wanted to make sure we showed our work this time.”One element that was discussed and ultimately shelved: whether the four new schools should all play each other annually. Kenny said that the conference concluded that accelerating the integration of the new programs into the league was “to play each other more, not less.
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