r/TheB1G

Future schedules have each team playing two others each season. Is playing a full west coast round robin important or even wanted? From the outside, it would make travel easier for the teams and visiting fans.

Here's an exercise for Big Ten fans.

You can travel to one Big Ten game a week. Budget and the ability to get tickets isn't a factor here. You do have the following constraints.

The games have to either be a game hosted by a Big Ten school or a Big Ten Conference game at a neutral site (non conference neutral site games aren't allowed, non conference games hosted by the Big Ten are).

You can only travel to each Big Ten school/stadium once the entire season.

You can only see each Big Ten team a maximum of twice the entire season (if you see one of their home games you can only see one of their road games but if you don't see a home game you can see two of their road games, I don't believe there are any neutral site Big Ten conference games this season other than the Big Ten Championship Game).

Here's my list:

Sept. 5: Boise State at Oregon, Eugene, OR

Sept. 12: Oklahoma at Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Sept. 19: Virginia Tech at Maryland, College Park, MD

Sept. 26: Oregon at USC, Los Angeles, CA

Oct. 3: Penn State at Northwestern, Evanston, IL

Oct. 10: USC at Penn State, State College, PA

Oct. 17: Ohio State at Indiana, Bloomington, IN

Oct. 24: Iowa at Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Oct. 31: Washington at Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Nov. 7: Rutgers at Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Nov. 13: Illinois at UCLA, Pasadena, CA

Nov. 21: Iowa at Illinois, Champaign, IL

Nov. 28: Michigan at Ohio State, Columbus, OH

Dec. 5: Big Ten Championship Game, Indianapolis, IN

You have to start with The Game and then the rematch of last year's championship game. Michigan hosting Oklahoma is a pretty big one and saves me from having to pick another game that week. I also like Oregon-USC and USC-Penn State.

I went to both Illinois and Penn State so I wanted to get home and away for both schools and both are in major metropolitan areas where I have family (the Northwestern game is NW's first game at new Ryan Field). I also have family who graduated from Maryland and Wisconsin.

What's your list?

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