Well, cap, for bowl eligibility the Big 10 would go 1 - 1 in each of those seven extra conference games. Barring a miracle along the order.of mlm loave and fishes the SEC won't lose any of those OOC games to FCS teams. One extra win for the weaker half of their teams makes it easier to get teams bowl eligible.
The Big Ten has more weak teams. SOS proves that out. So the argument you're making has no teeth, I understand what you are saying. And it would make sense if the Big Ten were as strong(I mean really football strong) as the SEC. Currently they're just not. Not a dig, just reality.
Now your point has much more teeth if you make it with the ACC in mind. But model just doesn't work with the SEC. If you analyze the power rankings of lets say Massey would prove that out. Basically half of the teams in the Top 15 are SEC squads. Dividing that up by the five Power Conferences they should only have three. Not the seven they actually have. And really when it comes right down to it that's what we are talking about. If Kentucky had to play PSU in the regular season they have a legit shot at winning it.
Now while I fully see your point that they might have one more loss(and they might not) that doesn't change the actual 'football' power of the team. Furthermore there would have been only one team affected by that one more loss in as much as they would have been knocked out of bowl contention. So I see Delaney's talk as more of the excuse type rather than a legitimate beef. Others might see it your way and that's cool too. Opinions vary.
Every Big.10 team is substantially better.than Charleston southern.
Citadel too.
That's not the point. Like I said all of em except one could lose that extra game and still be bowl eligible. Of course all of them wouldn't lose.
If you totally flipped that idea on its head and all of the Big Ten schools would have won one more game only 2 schools would have been rendered bowl eligible.
Now here's the part I introduced earlier when this stuff was being knocked around.
There is nothing stopping the Big 10 from only playing 8 conference games.Not one thing. Why do they and other conferences do it? Follow the money.
To do so would cost the Big Ten revenue. That's right cold hard cash. How you say? The SEC "pays" these sad sacks to play them
and it pays them plenty.
The greedy Big 10 doesn't want anything to do with that. So they mask that by a bullshit argument that somehow by playing 9 games they are tougher and so much more righteous by some screwy way. A way that any rational person would be hard pressed to fathom why. :-)
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