I did find some interesting tidbits, so let me lay out how I looked at this data:
- All turnaround times are the time between tipoff. A 44 to 48 hour turnaround is most common and most reasonable. i.e. 7pm on Thursday, 3pm on Saturday
- Anything below 44 hours is counted as "short." Anything below 42 should be considered "extreme" (i.e. 7pm Thur to noon Sat)
- There are 28 3-day turnarounds ("long"), which are great when traveling. There are no 1-day turnarounds
- Shortest turnaround is 40 and longest is 90 (yes, 4 days)
- I believe that ordering the road trips by travel difficulty would be: Mountain, Washington, (big gap) Arizona, Oregon, NorCal, SoCal
- Each team has 8 total turnarounds (4 home/4 road). There are 96 total for the conference, although 10 are TBD (game times not yet set).
- Additionally, each travel pairing has 8 turnarounds (i.e. 8 teams do the Mountain trip)
- There are 7 total extreme turnarounds (less than 42 hours)
- Arizona has 2 of these, as does Cal. No other team has 2.
- Out of the 8 Mountain trips, 6 teams have a 3-day turnaround. Only us (41 hours) and UW (44) do not have 3 days.
- Arizona has 2 short turnarounds, and 2 long turnarounds. Only Cal has 2 short trips, the rest have 1 or 0.
- OSU and UW do not have any long trips. They each have 1 short trip, and no extreme trips.
- USC has zero short trips, and a shocking 5 long trips.
- There are 3 4-day turnarounds, and Colorado has 2 of them (both at home).
- Arizona has 2 turnarounds TBD, and both appear likely to be short.
- ASU has 3 long turnarounds, all on the road, including Mountain and Washington trips (2 worst).
I don't think there's any intentionally bad intent with the scheduling, but it is far more imbalanced than I would have expected. The fact that 6 out of 8 teams have 3 days to travel between Utah and Colorado is interesting, and the fact USC doesn't have any short turnarounds but does have 5 (out of 8!) 3-day turnarounds is very strange. Arizona having 2 of 6 total extreme turnarounds is rough, especially with 2 more TBD. Athletes appear to miss a lot more classes than I would have expected as well.
I know there's a Larry Scott thread but I thought this might be better in its own thread. Mods feel free to move if needed.
EDIT: Miscounted one Cal game, which was also extremely short. They are hurt by scheduling, but overall have it better than we do. Added note about ASU's gracious road trips.