Penn State coach James Franklin discusses non-conference scheduling strategies as the Big Ten and College Football Playoff expand.
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00:00 Yeah, I would say there's a team in this conference specifically that's buying out of a ton of
00:21 game contracts that are already signed to go in the complete opposite direction.
00:30 I don't think it's changed.
00:33 I would say you could even make the argument it's magnified and that's why people are changing
00:39 their schedules because you look at who people are going to have to play just in our conference,
00:50 it's going to be even more challenging than it's ever been.
00:53 So I don't think the philosophy or the model has changed.
01:00 You got to do whatever you possibly can to give yourself a chance, number one, to be
01:06 undefeated at the end of the season.
01:09 To your point, with a bigger playoff, there's probably a little bit more wiggle room in
01:14 terms of right now it's kind of undefeated or at the most one loss.
01:23 And then on top of that, if you're not scheduling to be undefeated, you're scheduling to have
01:30 as least as many losses as possible to give yourself a chance to be in the playoffs.
01:37 There's another team in this conference that has had a ton of success the last couple of
01:42 years, and again, I think it would follow the same argument.
01:47 So no, I don't think so.
01:49 And from the ADs and head coaches and people I've talked to, if anything, I think it magnifies
01:56 it even more.
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