Penn State Coach James Franklin Discusses Scheduling in the 12-Team Playoff Era

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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