Ohio State Football: Should conference schedules be uniform?

The Ohio State football team will have four non-conference games this season.Next year after USC and UCLA join the Big Ten, they will play just three. That means they will have nine conference games instead of the eight they have this season. Not everyone is like that though.

Across college football, there is no uniform schedule format. Some conferences require just eight conference games while others require nine. Not only are the number of conference games different but how they rotate through the conference is different as well.

This is how there are so many unbalanced schedules across the country, including among the elite college football programs. Georgia plays a cupcake schedule compared to Ohio State this year. If the Buckeyes played Georgia’s schedule, they’d have a much easier time going undefeated.

So that begs the question; should conference schedules be uniform across the country? Should each conference follow the same set of rules on how many games they play in-conference and how you rotate teams within the conference so things are more fair?

I actually don’t think they should. I think each conference should do as they please. College football was built on being a regional sport. This is the last thing that can keep it that way. Some teams will have an easier conference schedule than others in certain years.

College football is always going to be unbalanced. That’s only gotten worse in the past couple of seasons. Changing schedules is still going to make things unbalanced in favor of the best programs. Just win all your games and it doesn’t matter.

I think the Ohio State program does a good job with how they schedule outside the conference. The Big Ten is about to get a lot harder soon, but that’s okay. That will help them later in the College Football Playoff.