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Big Ten and Pac 12 Collaborate - What Does It Mean For Nebraska?

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Today, the Big Ten and Pac 12 announced that they are going to start collaborating more on athletic schedules.



What does all this mean? Well for the Olympic Sports, you will start to see scheduling changes starting next year. Both conference have (or are starting up) television networks and this will provide a lot of exposure for both conferences on both networks. This is a really fantastic way to "combine" two conferences without actually combining them.

This move really solidifies the PAC-12 and Big Ten conferences as far as expansion goes. There's really no reason to expand at this point. A lot of scheduling holes can be filled (especially for the olympic sports). Basketball is going to get some more marquee games, but what about football? In 2017, when this is suppose to take place, the Big Ten is suppose to move to a 9-game conference schedule. This would create a situation where some years certain schools with out-of-conference rivalry games would only have 6 home games. Seven is suppose to be the magic number for athletic department revenue goals.


There were tweets this afternoon about the Big Ten doing away with the 9-game conference schedule this afternoon, but nothing was officially stated on this. Jim Delaney is going on the BTN tonight at 4pm CST and he may answer this question.

So if we keep the 9-game conference schedule, does this kill any change for a meaningful game with another BCS school during the regular season? If we go back to an 8-game schedule, does this become our "marquee" non-con game every year? I hope not. Hopefully it will be the first step to a better non-conference schedule for the Huskers.