The additions of Oregon and Washington will reportedly result in an additional Big Ten conference game on everyone’s schedule.
There is a rumor being reported by a “Michigan insider” at On3.com that the Big Ten will “most likely be moving to 10 conference games” with the additions of the Ducks and Huskies. This would also be the case should the league look to add two more teams to reach 20 total teams in the conference.
The Big Ten will most likely be moving to 10 conference games according to a Michigan insider at their On3 website (no not one of the dumb fake ones, a real one). That isn't surprising. The math works better at 10 than 9. Especially if 2 more schools are added. Then the 2 non-con…
— Big Ten information. College football fan (@Genetics56) August 6, 2023
This rumor has yet to be reported by any other big-time news media outlets at this time so for now it is simply a rumor. But this rumor does make a lot of sense when you think about the size of the Big Ten and the fact that the TV networks would love additional conference games.
If the Big Ten does actually expand to 10 games — which is still not certain — then it’ll be interesting to see if that’ll occur in 2024 when USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington join the league or further down the road. It’ll result in schools having to adjust their future schedules either way but if it is in 2024, then that would mean Michigan State would have to cut one of their non-conference games against Florida Atlantic, Louisiana or Boston College.
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