Big 10 -- Ohio St. vs. Michigan Could Be Twice As Nice

Divisions are for suckers.

Ha. I hated playing Nebraska twice. And I hated playing Colorado twice.

And I bet, whenever Michigan pulls their head out of their ass and they and Ohio State both have a lot riding on a game, they will hate playing each other again a week later.

Hmm…I like this. It just helps solidify the inevitable that Texas will be the winning-est college football team of all time soon enough.

Yeah…I can’t count the number of ways that this sucks.

Just imagine: We’ve just beaten the aggies on Thanksgiving to secure a 12-0 regular season and a spot in the CCG. Meanwhile, the aggies, having been placed in the other division, have already secured their spot in said CCG because they played in a weaker division.

A week later, we have to face them again as a final gauntlet before we can advance to the MNC game. WTF? Didn’t we just prove a few days earlier that we were the better team? Now we have to go out and do it again?

Yeah, sign me up for that. With leadership that idiotic, I’m glad we didn’t end up in the Big 10.

The more I think about this, the more I am sure one of these Big Ten guys losing to another will cost the Big Ten an MNC chance and watching Delaney and Tom Osborne should be good fun.

Meanwhile Stoops and Brown/Muschamp keep beating each other up and ending up with chances to go for the Gold.

Not rushing to get to ten years in the future but it will be interesting to look back then and see if the Big Ten has more dough but fewer trophies.

The Texas Ten Pack.

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Agreed….I think this ends up costing the Big 10 MNC appearances more often than it helps them garner one. It’ll be interesting to add up the pros and cons with the benefit of hindsight in about 10 years.

Didn’t a lot of Huskers moan that the SWC-Big 8 merger had wrecked their delicious rivalry with the land thieves? Didn’t they resent Texas for ‘causing’ that?

Because, you know, now they’re the home wreckers.

To paraphrase the first episode of Treme:

Play for that money.
Play for that mother fucking money.

Wisconsin really got screwed. Lost some natural rivals and even though they are more “west” they are put in the east division. Hell they border Michigan. (both are in other division.) They border Minnesota (in other division) They border Illinois. (Northwestern in other division)

Strange. They need two more eastern teams to have a more balanced geographical landscape. Its like they said competitive balance is first and screw the rest of the considerations.

I had more than a few cocktails in Treme a few weeks back.

Playing the same team two weeks in a row is idiotic.

i just heard theyll move up tOSU and UM to the first saturday on October…

whats that sound like?

Hook ’em Nittany Lions!

i just heard theyll move up tOSU and UM to the first saturday on October…

whats that sound like?

Nope — at least not for the near future. The game is scheduled for the last Saturday in November in 2011 and 2012.

This is so idiotic. If you want them to play every year for the last game of the season, put them in the same damn division. The only reason they’re putting them in opposite divisions is for the chance they could play in the Big 10 Championship Game against each other. But if they’re going to do that, they SHOULDN’T play the last game of the regular season against each other. For some reason, the Big 10 is actively TRYING to arrange this scenario. /facepalm

That was a dumb decision by Delaney. Neither tOSU or Michigan wants to move their game from the end of the season. By doing this they’ve essentially forced their hands to move it forward.

In the end Delaney’s quest for Notre Dame will ultimately screw that conference.

This sounds to me like posturing on the part of the Big Ten +1 + Cornholers . . . matching Nebraska and Penn State for a big TV guarantee, and putting Michigan and Ohio State on opposite sides of the ball could mean — as others have pointed out — meetings in back to back weeks. But on a competitive level, it figures to attract big TV bucks. Bet that changes after the next big TV deal is signed.

BTW: Nebraska losing Big 8 rival OU because Texas joined the league? Not hardly. It was because FOUR Texas teams joined, and it was geography that dictated Nebraska and OU be in different divisions. If they’d pushed for it, I think Texas would have been just fine with a cross-division rivalry for Nebraska-OU, an every-year meeting . . . as long as our cross-division rival was Kansas or Iowa State.

steve-
just read a shift in everyone’s schedule after 2014, to possibly putting The Game in early October to more replicate a rematch/OU-UT polls potential scenario in lieu of a late season matchup, which very well might happen anyway

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