Big Ten Goes to East/West Divisions

[Tomhusker]

Report: Big Ten switching to East/West divisions | sports.omaha.com

 

[Footballnut]

Report: Big Ten switching to East/West divisions | sports.omaha.com

Finally... Legends and Leaders just stupid... I wanted East/West or North/South the entire time. the down side is that Nebraska will now basically be in the Big 12 North again.

 

[Tomhusker]

Kinda what I thought when I saw it. Wisconsin will be the K State team that rises up every once in a while.

 

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[The Iron Horse]

not concern about it, will only last 2 seasons max. more teams are on the way.

 

[Smart]

Both our teams should be happy with these divisions. Outside of the 20% of years where Iowa or Northwestern will challenge, our game will pretty much be the Division title.

The divisions would have been much fairer as:
North/West: Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan State, Michigan
South/East: Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Ohio State, Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers

They care more about not splitting up OSU and Michigan than they do about having a fair conference.

 

[blkflagmafia]

Big12 north 2.0 SHOULD be in the title game every year wisky would be our chief rival. let's take advantage of this and start are own big ten legacy

 

[iruletheskool]

Looks great to me. Easy road to title and easier recruiting in Chi town

 

[Blackshirts]

I figured it would come to this arrangement. Having Michigan and Ohio state being cross rivals as the last game of the season and then possibly playing the following week in the B1G championship game would have been pretty lame. Had Michigan played division foes towards the end of the season instead of Ohio State, then it probably would have been better. Personally, I like it. At the end of the day, your team has to be strong enough to win out, regardless of what division you're in. The East may be stacked a bit more, but if the West wins the B1G championship, who cares how tough the East is. I felt the same way about the Big 12 North. It looked like a bad situation for us, because we couldn't win big games. Frankly, we just didn't have good teams. This will be no different.

 

[blkflagmafia]

I just hope we take advantage of it plain and simple.

 

[Driaz]

I've said this before the last time this came up.....

I don't at all think the leagues are that unbalanced, but y'all seem to think we are in such an easier division.....

I think we can all agree the two weakest teams in the conference are Indiana and Maryland.....they are both in the east.....

Every team in our division has had at least some limited success and could easily pull an upset, even Illinois, though they would clearly be our weakest team.....

Wisconsin has been better than Michigan the past 10 years......will that remain going forward? I don't know, but I'm not convinced that Michigan will be better than Wisconsin the next 10 years.....

I originally wanted Michigan St to be the team from the eastern time zone to come to the central time zone division, but it makes more sense geographically for Purdue to be the only time zone crossover.....

If Michigan St would of stayed in the west instead of Purdue, I would argue the west is the tougher division right now.....

As it is, for the right here and now, I'd say the new alignment is maybe slightly better at the top end in the east, but our bottom feeders are much tougher in the west....

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

I agree with Driaz completely and when we go to 14 M. State will likely come over to the west splitting the power 3 and 3.

 

[corn train]

Nobody said anything at all about not liking Iowa


I don't like Iowa/Missouri, pretty much the same with the edge going to Gabberts

 

[Tomhusker]

But Iowa has done nothing but talk since NU joined the B1G.... and before. They need to win a couple of games in the next 10 years before I can build anything more than an "Annoying little retarded brother" dislike for them.

 

[tometom]

I think it's definitely weighted a little to the East. The west has potential, but really need Northwestern to break through and Iowa to get back to what they were before NU joined the B1G.

Historically the top 4 are clearly Nebraska, OSU, Mich, PSU. I think Wiscinson, Northwestern, Mich St are on the rise (probably in that order). That leaves Iowa, Minnesota, Rutgers, Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Maryland (my own ranks right now) Iowa's been good and bad, they are a team that can jump up and beat anyone as proven in the last couple of years beating Mich and Mich St, but they will also lose games they shouldn't. Since Purdue(new coach) and Illinois(almost an entirely new staff) are below Rutgers and Indiana, this is why I believe the West is weaker. Obviously Maryland sucks, but that doesn't drag down the top of the East.

 

[iruletheskool]

Maryland has the best unis tho

 

[blkflagmafia]

Maryland has the best unis tho

This is case of using uni to try to help a sorry ass team. It worked for Oregon but the terps are having no such luck.

 

[corn train]

Big Ten Announces Football Division Alignments and Move to Nine-Game Conference Schedules - BIG TEN CONFERENCE Official Athletic Site

Cable TV being the most important factor, I don't see any national ratings spike here beyond 1 or 2 games per year. We better rethink our sunbelt OCC crown roll