UNC, Wake Forest schedule non-conference series

[Styre]

Due to conference realignment and expansion, UNC and Wake Forest, the third-oldest rivals in the ACC, will play in 2015 but not again until 2022. So today they announced a home-and-home non-conference series for 2019 and 2021.

Do we think we'll see something like this happen in the Big Ten, or will the move to a 9-game conference schedule help eliminate such long gaps in scheduling?

 

[NJCat83588]

That's pretty interesting. I have never heard of two teams from the same conference playing a non-conference game. Just shows how ridiculous the whole super conference idea is, if teams can go almost 2 generations of students without playing.

 

[pawildcat]

Since B1G teams are supposed be playing three teams from the other division each year under the nine-game schedule, a seven-year gap should be impossible, assuming a home-and-home series and that you'd be switching out to other teams. Most of the time, there shouldn't be more than a two-year gap. Of course, this assumes the B1G stays at 14 teams. Any more than that, and it would be difficult to avoid large gaps,

 

[Styre]

I remember in Colorado's first year in the Pac-12, they played a non-conference game against Cal, but that was simply because they'd scheduled it before they knew they were joining the conference. Never heard of something like this.

 

[pschatz25]

Seriously, what's the point of a conference if you can go seven years without playing another team? Of course if we didn't play OSU for seven years I'd probably be okay with it.

There was a year - 2003?- when IU and Purdue only played once in basketball, so they scheduled a non-conference game in Indianapolis.

 

[Michael2009]

I seem to remember there being some talk of Minnesota and Michigan doing this a handful of years ago during a year in which they weren't schedule to play during the Big Ten slate. I don't think it came to fruition, though I can't remember why.