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How is the Big Ten conference football schedule determined?

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TomD's picture
December 13, 2016 at 7:22pm
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While each conference school determines its own out-of-conference schedule, within certain guidelines and restrictions provided by the league office, how is the conference football schedule determined?

This would include, for each team, (1) the weekly sequence of conference opponents, (2) the week of the bye, and (3) the 3 of the 7 non-divisional opponents that each team plays in any given year.

The conference football schedule, I assume, is determined by the Big Ten league office, but how is it done?  By a person?  By a committee of persons?  By some formula or process?  Some combination of person, committee and formula(s)?

Does anyone have any insights as to how, exactly, it is done?

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