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Originally Posted by Steve19
While it may seem to make sense financially in the short-term to schedule in-state teams like these guys, it hurts our SOS and poll rankings when we put more than one of these easy games on the schedule. Again, with the greatest of respect, I think this was a real mistake.
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The legislature, as a condition of their share of the Ohio Stadium renovation, mandated that we bring one (1) in-state school into Ohio Stadium for the following ten years. This was a perfectly reasonable proposal that has been taken to ridiculous extremes; a trend that hopefully bottomed out with this year's schedule.
Loading up on in-state MAC schools combined with the perceived weakness of the Big Ten is not a recipe for national respect, regardless of playing one marquee opponent each season.