{"id":20340,"date":"2023-06-09T05:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T11:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20340"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:35:49","slug":"future-football-on-the-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/future-football-on-the-west-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Football On The West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Big Ten dropped their 2024 and 2025 football schedules yesterday, the first to include UCLA and USC.\u00a0 With sixteen teams, the conference is abandoning its divisional format and moving to a “Flex Protect Plus” model, where each school will play nine conference games each season and will play every other conference opponent at least twice, home and away, in a four-year period.\u00a0 In addition, there are eleven protected matchups that will be played annually, featuring a combination of historic and geographic rivalries along with trophy games.\u00a0 The Big Ten Championship game will feature the top two teams in the conference standings, with tie breakers to be determined.<\/p>\n

So, what does this mean for Purdue?\u00a0 First off, they will have two protected rivalries to be played every season: Illinois and, of course, Indiana.\u00a0 They will face USC at home in 2024, their first visit to West Lafayette since 1976.\u00a0 UCLA makes their first appearance on the schedule in 2025, where Purdue will make their first appearance in Los Angeles since the 2001 Rose Bowl.\u00a0 Over the course of the two seasons, Purdue will play every other Big Ten team at least once.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Danny will be out of school before any of this takes effect.\u00a0 Maybe we can look at that 2025 UCLA trip as a chance to meet up.\u00a0 I know of a pretty good breakfast place that I think he would like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Big Ten dropped their 2024 and 2025 football schedules yesterday, the first to include UCLA and USC.\u00a0 With sixteen teams, the conference is abandoning its divisional format and moving to a “Flex Protect Plus” model, where each school will play nine conference games each season and will play every other conference opponent at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[2698,10671,289,298,1367,2100,4680,3317,6577],"class_list":["post-20340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-big-ten","tag-big-ten-football-championship-game","tag-boiler-up","tag-dlm","tag-fighting-illini","tag-iu","tag-rose-bowl","tag-ucla","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20341,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340\/revisions\/20341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}