The Wizard of Odds
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Who Travels, Who Doesn't
When the NCAA Board of Directors voted to add a 12th regular season game in major college football starting in 2006, the hope among fans was that it would rekindle intersectional rivalries.
Who could forget USC-Alabama of the 1970s or Notre Dame-Miami of the 1980s?
Instead, the 12th game merely exacerbated a disturbing trend of big-time teams scheduling home victories against lesser opponents. Nowhere is this more the case than in the Southeastern Conference, whose teams have traveled the fewest number of miles in the past 10 years. Check out the above chart.
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