Big 10 Teams Will No Longer Schedule FCS Opponents.

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Big Ten teams are moving toward dropping FCS teams from their future schedules, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said in an interview.

Alvarez told WIBA-AM in Madison that conference coaches and athletic directors have agreed to stop scheduling games against teams in the lower division. There was no word when the policy would be put in place, but it could be at least 2016 because several Big Ten teams already have agreements to play FCS teams the next three seasons.

"The nonconference schedule in our league is ridiculous," Alvarez said on WIBA-AM via ESPN.com. "It's not very appealing, so we've made an agreement that our future games will all be Division I schools."

At a Big Ten meeting Monday, commissioner Jim Delany indicated that the the number of conference games would increase from eight games to nine and possibly 10 by the 2014 season when Maryland and Rutgers join the Big Ten.

If the Big Ten plays 10 conference games, that would leave only two openings on the schedule for nonconference opponents. And with strength of schedule part of the new playoff system, there appears to be a push to upgrade schedules around the country.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/alvarez-big-ten-teams-stop-160014602--ncaaf.html

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Michigan: We will NEVER be embarrassed by Appalachian State EVER again!

Seriously though, good for them, even if there are definitely some FCS opponents that are tougher than bottom tier FBS opponents out there.

And the increase in B1G conference schedule will have some ADs unhappy, as conference games are always (except with neutral sites) home and home, whereas creampuff non-conf opponents tend to always come to the big boy's house to play

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And all of those FCS schools will schedule with sec teams.

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They will, however, continue to schedule Purdue, Minnesota, and Illinois.

[Seamus]

And all of those FCS schools will schedule with sec teams in November.


Fixed it for you.