“I’ve been outspoken that we need to have parity in the scheduling,” Moos said. “I know that at one point the traditional powerhouses were playing each other more to get that strength of schedule component really kind of directed and focused on the football playoff. But you look at the SEC, where they literally have terrible strength of schedule in most cases – only an eight-game conference schedule, etc. And still they’re putting somebody, sometimes two schools, in (the playoff) each year.”
The latter is something Frost has also been vocal about in the past, and continued to hit on this week.
He spent his final question of an hour-long session with print and TV media on Monday making the case why it’s important the SEC and ACC add another conference game each year.
“I think you have to absolutely have blinders on not to recognize the SEC and ACC are going to be over represented every year because they play eight while the Pac-12 and Big Ten beat themselves up and play extra games,” Frost said. “It’s inevitable if you play an extra conference game that half of your conference schools are going to have one more loss at the end of the year.
“It hurts your rankings. It hurts your preseason rankings for the next year because you had another loss the year before. It makes your games not count as much because you’re not playing ranked teams. Those things need to get balanced out.”
When it comes to controlling what you can control, Moos feels the athletic directors had “a very good dialogue” that had the support of the league commissioner Jim Delany in regards to future Big Ten scheduling.
