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In this article (http://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/...cost-of-big-ten-opponents-keeps-rising-060414) posted in another thread was the passage:
Of the Big Ten's 39 nonconference home games in 2014, only six feature a team from another power-five conference -- and all six are the result of some type of home-and-home series. Meanwhile, there are 22 games against non-power-five FBS teams and 11 against the FCS. Only four of those 33 contests feature a return game -- Indiana-North Texas, Michigan State-Eastern Michigan, Rutgers-Tulane and Wisconsin-South Florida.
UConn was having difficulty getting home and homes with P5 conferences and the B1G bailed us out, scheduling home-and-homes with Indiana and Illinois in 2019 and 2020 (http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/aac/connecticut-huskies.php).
What are the odds of a non-P5 team getting 2 home-and-homes with the B1G in 2019-2020? Even in 2014, such series were rare - 4 per year, including Rutgers who scheduled before it was in the B1G - and they are getting rarer. If the B1G continued to schedule home-and-homes in 2019-2020 at the same rate as in 2014, then UConn is getting half of the whole conference's non-P5 away games.
Nothing new here, but it surely indicates that the B1G has interest in adding UConn. Either those games will become in-conference games by 2019 and are intended to ease the scheduling upheaval in a realignment transition, or they are meant to help sustain UConn football for a possible later add.
Greg Flugaur has suggested 2019 as a possible entry date for UConn - he attributes that date to the timing of the TV contracts. Scheduling would be supportive of that possibility.
AAC has a 27-month exit notice so we would look for an announcement in 2016-2017 for 2019 entry.
Of the Big Ten's 39 nonconference home games in 2014, only six feature a team from another power-five conference -- and all six are the result of some type of home-and-home series. Meanwhile, there are 22 games against non-power-five FBS teams and 11 against the FCS. Only four of those 33 contests feature a return game -- Indiana-North Texas, Michigan State-Eastern Michigan, Rutgers-Tulane and Wisconsin-South Florida.
UConn was having difficulty getting home and homes with P5 conferences and the B1G bailed us out, scheduling home-and-homes with Indiana and Illinois in 2019 and 2020 (http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/aac/connecticut-huskies.php).
What are the odds of a non-P5 team getting 2 home-and-homes with the B1G in 2019-2020? Even in 2014, such series were rare - 4 per year, including Rutgers who scheduled before it was in the B1G - and they are getting rarer. If the B1G continued to schedule home-and-homes in 2019-2020 at the same rate as in 2014, then UConn is getting half of the whole conference's non-P5 away games.
Nothing new here, but it surely indicates that the B1G has interest in adding UConn. Either those games will become in-conference games by 2019 and are intended to ease the scheduling upheaval in a realignment transition, or they are meant to help sustain UConn football for a possible later add.
Greg Flugaur has suggested 2019 as a possible entry date for UConn - he attributes that date to the timing of the TV contracts. Scheduling would be supportive of that possibility.
AAC has a 27-month exit notice so we would look for an announcement in 2016-2017 for 2019 entry.