As the Big Ten Conference examines its options for adopting a nine-game conference schedule, one of the key puzzles is finding a way for member schools to include seven home games each year.
Some teams, such as Michigan in 2009, play as many as eight home games a season. The extra home games can result in significant revenues, according to Adam Rittenberg at ESPN.com.
"There's an intention to go to nine games," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told me, "if we can work out the sequencing of those games so that teams that have obligations on a home-and-away basis can end up with seven home games."
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