Big Ten selling out tradition.

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PowerT83

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Big Ten selling out tradition - College Football - Rivals.com


They are going to move the game to October and they are going to split Michigan and Ohio State up and put them in opposite divisions of the new 12-team Big Ten to allow for the possibility of a league title game rematch starting in 2011.

This hasn’t been announced. It’s all but certain though, the drumbeat of public relation leaks assuring it. Commissioner Jim Delany has talked about it. So too has Ohio State coach Jim Tressel and Michigan athletic director David Brandon.
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I can't believe the powers that be would split them up into different divisions.
 
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It will eventually have the same effect on the rivalry that divisional play had on the Tennessee-Alabama game. In 15 or 20 years, all the younger fans will think the oldtimers are stupid for worrying so much about the UM/OSU game when divisional games are so much more important.
 
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yawn.

It makes the best geographic sense.

West:

Michigan
Michigan St.
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska

East

Penn St
Indiana
Purdue
Ohio State
Illinois
Northwestern

....

The only alternative would be to put Michigan and Michigan State in the East and move Illinois and NW to the west, which would give you Michigan, tOSU, and Penn St in the East and a relatively weaker West (Kinda like the situation in the former Big XII where Texas and Oklahoma dominated the North for so long.)
 
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PowerT83 said:
Big Ten selling out tradition - College Football - Rivals.com





I can't believe the powers that be would split them up into different divisions.
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They'll still play every year. Do you think the powers that be in the Big10 are dumb enough to end the game that gets more national attention than any other rivalry in the conference? They'll have the same scheduling deal that UT and Bama have where they are in different divisions but still play every year.
 
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GoBigOrangeVols said:
yawn.

It makes the best geographic sense.

West:

Michigan
Michigan St.
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska

East

Penn St
Indiana
Purdue
Ohio State
Illinois
Northwestern

....
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If that does become the layout the West is going to be a pretty tough division. East will belong to tOSU and Penn State most years and occasionaly maybe Purdue
 
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Rocky Top said:
If that does become the layout the West is going to be a pretty tough division. East will belong to tOSU and Penn State most years and occasionaly maybe Purdue
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Yea if I was an OSU fan I'd like that setup a lot. Beat PSU and you pretty much win the east every year.
 
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First&Tenn said:
They'll still play every year. Do you think the powers that be in the Big10 are dumb enough to end the game that gets more national attention than any other rivalry in the conference? They'll have the same scheduling deal that UT and Bama have where they are in different divisions but still play every year.
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The fact that they're moving it from the last game of the season is awful.
 
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They are afraid that if it still the last game of the year, the Big 10+2 championship game would be a rematch a week later.
 
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PowerT83 said:
Seems to me that would add more gas to the fire.
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I don't like the idea of a rematch, to be honest. Just takes the luster out a bit, which is why I think it should remain the last game of the year with the teams in the same division.
 
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tvolsfan said:
I don't like the idea of a rematch, to be honest. Just takes the luster out a bit, which is why I think it should remain the last game of the year with the teams in the same division.
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That would be best, but not sure how they would be able to divided it up and keep it balanced. Look at the Big 12-2 the South was always the strongest division.
 
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