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The way college football used to be continues to look like it will be a thing of the past as the sport changes more and more with each passing day.
With rumored discussions of College Football Playoff expansions opening the door for more teams to make their way into the field, some dominos must fall with that.
One of those major dominos is the future of how teams will schedule their seasons and what that could mean for teams like the Iowa Hawkeyes. With a proposed new plan, it could mean that the Hawkeyes would end their regular season with a potential College Football Playoff play-in game against an SEC school.
Per Dellenger, the proposed changes would “clear the way” for the SEC to begin playing nine regular season conference games, which would then have a knock-on effect to other parts of the schedule.
Primarily, a ninth conference game would trigger a likely scheduling agreement with the Big Ten that would pit the two conference’s schools against each other for one game each season (similar to cross-conference competitions seen in college basketball). The games would then be sold as a separate television package, generating yet more revenue for the two conferences as schools scramble for ways to pay players in college football’s new era.
These wouldn’t be bowl games or anything, but rather would be played in the same weekend that conference championships were regularly held. This weekend would act as a time for play-in games to occur.
Iowa, a team near the top of the Big Ten, but not usually winning it, could be a program that this directly impacts more than most as they are routinely on the cusp of College Football Playoff contention.
An expanded playoff would also have a drastic impact on conference championship weekend. According to the report, conferences would begin considering turning championship…
Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/article/impacts-proposed-big-ten-sec-121511828.html
Author : Hawkeyes Wire
Publish date : 2025-02-20 12:15:00
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