Penn State and the Big Ten is "Fully in Support" of Monumental Scheduling Change

The Big Ten and SEC debate is a tale as old as time. Every single year, when football is being played on the field, people are always arguing which conference is better than the other.

Right now, the Big Ten is on a bit of a heater as they have won the last three National Championships, and when teams face off in Bowl Games and other one-off matchups, the Big Ten is rolling right now.

Penn State has a historical record of just 10-19 against the SEC, and the most recent matchup for them was way back in 2022 when they blew out the Auburn Tigers 41-12.

It hasn't been good for Penn State, but thankfully, they haven't had to face too many SEC teams throughout the years.

That is on the table to potentially change. 

According to FOX's Joel Klatt, the Big Ten is reportedly in favor of creating a Big Ten and SEC scheduling agreement where each year, the two conferences will stack up against each other.

The major wrinkle is that the opponent is unknown until the game gets closer. The idea here is that the teams will be placed in tiers, and the matchups will be with teams within similar tiers.

This is way more realistic if college football does move to a 24-team College Football Playoff and teams have more wiggle room to lose a game or two. 

This week would likely have to come in the middle part of the year for two reasons. The first is that there needs to be at least a few data points established to place the teams in their respective tiers. 

The second is that these games would have to be meaningful for this to make sense. If they pin these matchup games at the end of the season, they will become largely meaningless on the National scale. If the playoffs are already established, then what's the point?

If this were to happen, I would be in the camp that these games need to be data points for making the College Football Playoff, just as they are data points for the argument for which conference is better.

In recent history, it has been all Big Ten. They hope to keep it that way, and a yearly matchup week between the two conferences would go a long way in settling the age-old debate.

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