Bumping this shit because I was pissed at how we looked against the child rapists and now having lived out the season, was thinking "gee, it sure seems like Oregon hasn't had to fly as far as we have, but they're getting Maryland at home". I know I've said the schedules will be easier in the future, but that is largely because of how I evaluated based on the first post in this thread. But I wanted to see if we also had it extra tough in terms of travel on the year.
So I quickly built a database of the distances between each of the B1G schools to identify 1) total B1G travel miles and 2) travel miles of opponents. Couldn't find a text or easily formatted file with the entire B1G schedule so just did the west coast teams for now.
TLDR: We had it rough in 2024.
Total B1G miles traveled:
Washington: 16,552
opponents of Washington: 11,112
(this number is the distance of USC, UCLA, NW and Mich to Seattle and back)
That's a net "travel deficit" of 5440 miles. Still nearly 5K miles taking out the Oregon trip.
USC: 13,594
USC opponents: 15,362
USC with a 1768 surplus, which makes sense with both PSU and Rutgers visiting LA
UCLA:13,896
UCLA opponents: 11,256
net deficit of 2640; two cross country trips offset by the relatively short trip to Seattle
Oregon: 12,594
Oregon opponents: 16,876
4282 surplus for the Ducks.
It can't get much worse than 2024, since both the LA schools visited and we had 2 cross-country trips plus Indiana, but at the same time the 5 year rotation has us playing on the road twice at the following 4 schools: Rutgers, Maryland, Penn State and Indiana. The 3 longest trips and the 6th longest trip. Grrrrrrr.
So I quickly built a database of the distances between each of the B1G schools to identify 1) total B1G travel miles and 2) travel miles of opponents. Couldn't find a text or easily formatted file with the entire B1G schedule so just did the west coast teams for now.
TLDR: We had it rough in 2024.
Total B1G miles traveled:
Washington: 16,552
opponents of Washington: 11,112
(this number is the distance of USC, UCLA, NW and Mich to Seattle and back)
That's a net "travel deficit" of 5440 miles. Still nearly 5K miles taking out the Oregon trip.
USC: 13,594
USC opponents: 15,362
USC with a 1768 surplus, which makes sense with both PSU and Rutgers visiting LA
UCLA:13,896
UCLA opponents: 11,256
net deficit of 2640; two cross country trips offset by the relatively short trip to Seattle
Oregon: 12,594
Oregon opponents: 16,876
4282 surplus for the Ducks.
It can't get much worse than 2024, since both the LA schools visited and we had 2 cross-country trips plus Indiana, but at the same time the 5 year rotation has us playing on the road twice at the following 4 schools: Rutgers, Maryland, Penn State and Indiana. The 3 longest trips and the 6th longest trip. Grrrrrrr.
