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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

The 2024 Big 10 schedule is great for USC, Michigan and Penn State - sorry UCLA

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Big Ten introduced the 'Flex Protect Plus' football schedule model for 2024 and it already gave us a reason to get excited. Michigan traveling out to USC, UCLA traveling roughly 27k miles, Wisconsin playing Alabama and USC. Penn State hosting USC and Ohio State and so much more. McElroy breaks down the schedule and we look at Notre Dame’s new AD and why Texas A&M is calling the shots in a game vs the Longhorns | Always College Football  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's to stop the big 10?

0:03.4

Because there's no structure really when it comes to this scheduling format.

0:08.4

It's kind of, well, you play them this year and the year you don't and the year after that you do and then you can kind of give off the impression

0:16.3

fair or unfair that you can stack the deck for the teams that are likely to make a

0:21.8

playoff run.

0:24.8

Welcome in, it's always college football right here in the middle of June.

0:32.3

So much that we need to get to, including a big story

0:36.2

from last week, the Big 10 2024 schedule release. We don't spend a ton of time by the

0:41.4

way. We're not going to spend a ton of time on next year. I mean we still have so much to look forward to things to break down competitions, but hey it's June. Let's talk a little about their scheduling format.

0:53.0

Some of the pros, some of the cons, some of the things I like, the matchups that I like,

0:57.0

one notable omission from the matchups that were protected,

1:02.0

that I feel like we have to have as college football fans. We're also going to get

1:07.5

into the mailbag a bunch that we need to get to, including a conversation about

1:11.5

Pacific Northwest joining the Big 12?

1:15.0

How about the fact that Texas and Texas A&M's rivalry has been away gone for 12 years and yet the level of cattiness that's still applied to the rivalry is about as good as it gets and then we're going to also talk a little bit about Notre Dame changing at the top there with new athletic

1:35.4

director stepping in here in 2024.

1:40.2

Mark Kubiak, Jack Foster, Jake Garcia, I'm Greg McElroy. We have a terrific show in store for you today and like I've told you already the last couple weeks and we've seen the review numbers go up. We have so appreciated you guys taking a couple minutes out of your time to write a review

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2:29.3

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