Pac12 v Big Ten interleague agreement

This is awesome. Here is a USA Today LINK

This should help avoid teams getting out of contracts and being left with crappy last minute fill in teams.

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By 2017, each team's nonconference football schedule will include one game against a team from the other league. One could be featured annually as a preseason kickoff event, perhaps staged at the Rose Bowl. Others could be played in neighboring NFL stadiums, including the planned Farmers Field in downtown Los Angeles, the San Francisco 49ers' new facility or Chicago's Soldier Field.

Basketball games similarly could land in such NBA arenas as Los Angeles' Staples Center or Chicago's United Center, four teams sometimes gathering for doubleheaders.

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This is very good. The next step should be (IMO)for both leagues to play round robin schedules. 11 conference games plus the interleague game, hopefully rotated every two years.

BUT BUT BUT...THE PAC 12 AND BIG 10 NEVER TRY TO PLAY LEGIT NON-CONFERENCE GAMES.

FWIW, this is what an SEC/Big 10 agreement would have looked like. This was proposed by a Cleveland writer back in '07. I thought it was an amazing idea

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Id like to see 2 games a year be between BCS schools from another conference. If we're going to pretend the regular season is a playoff and vote on who the best teams are, we need more common opponents.