(03-09-2018 08:19 AM)mlb Wrote:  B1G said UC, UConn, and BYU were considered power teams for scheduling purposes.

Right, those scheduled games would count and others could as well on a case by case review. It was left open ended.

ETA: http://www.fbschedules.com/2015/09/big-t...opponents/

Quote:Last week, it was reported by the Indianapolis Star that Indiana had been granted an exception to count Cincinnati and UConn as Power Five teams for scheduling purposes.

The Hoosiers already have future home-and-home series set up against both Cincinnati and UConn, which dates back to last year. IU and Cincinnati are set for 2021 and 2022, while the Hoosiers will take on UConn in 2019 and 2020.

According to Big Ten senior associate commissioner Mark Rudner, more Group of Five teams could be included.

“We looked at their RPI for the last five or six years,” Rudner told the Star’s Mark Alesia. “If someone comes to us with a request, we’ll evaluate it. That’s what happened with these two. Those seemed to fit.”

Today we learned of two more schools, one Independent and one from the American Athletic Conference, that will supposedly count towards the Big Ten’s scheduling requirement. Those two teams are Army and Navy, per Brett McMurphy of ESPN.com.