Sox33OSU
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That seems about right. Thats the biggest problem for the B10 IMO, its not the OOC games its the bowl season. To be frank the B10 needs better tie ins because in about 75% of their bowls over the last 15 years B10 teams have been playing "up". ie their 6th place team playing another leagues 4th place team, their 5th place teams playing another leagues 3rd place team etc and when the B10 almost always gets 2 BCS bids ( even in years they dont deserve it like Illinois to the Rose in 07) it makes those games even tougher because it bumps everyone up a spot and you end up with 6-6 Iowa playing 9-3 Texas or 7-5 Iowa playing 10-2 Missouri/Oklahoma. Add to that that the B10's major bowl tie in ( the new years day games) are almost all with the SEC which is without question the best confernce and it makes having a good bowl season tough. In any event the league needs to start winning games even if they arent favored in them.
Oh didn't you know? It doesn't matter. The mismatched B1G team should always be able to beat the higher ranked, higher seeded team, and since we can't it's clearly only an indication that the conference as a whole is bad. I mean, if your conference's #8 team can't beat another conference's #4 team, and your #6 can't beat their #3, clearly your conference is entirely shit, right?