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Big Ten Expansion: Bargaining Phase Part II Comment Count

Brian

Penelope Waits Crafty Like a Fox[1]

FEELING STITCHY

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WEST

Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Northwestern
Illinois

EAST

Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Penn State
Indiana

COASTAL*

Maryland
Rutgers

*ineligible for championship game, plays all games against coastal division

Comments

GOLBOGM

November 20th, 2012 at 1:37 PM ^

While your 4 division idea was made in jest I do think a 4 divisions would be best if we ultimately become a 16 team conference.

For the sake of arguement lets assume the Big Ten jumps to 9 games in conference and that we add two teams.  Lets sat UVA and VT (which exact two does not necessarily matter).

The divisions could be geographically based, like:

Northwest Division: Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin

West-Central: Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, and Purdue

East-Central: Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio, and Penn State

East: Rutgers, Maryland, Virginia, and Virginia Tech

The divisions could be tweaked to even out- or to adjust if two added teams are better in a different region geographically....

Lets say you are in Division A- you could play all of Divison B and 1/2 of C.  The next year you'd play the other 1/2 of C and all of D.  That way you would have a 4 year cycle to play every team home and away.

I like that idea better than two groups of 8 playing the other group of 8 once a decade or so.

What does everyone else think of divisions of 4 if we go to 16?

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HarBooYa

November 20th, 2012 at 1:31 PM ^

Corn and cheese
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Tbd

"The good places to live" division minus e lansing
Northwestern
Illinois
Michigan state
Michigan
Indiana

Cheaters, liars and tv revenue
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Rutgers
Maryland

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bronxblue

November 20th, 2012 at 1:37 PM ^

Considering that "Coastal" would refer to the calming shores of the Raritan River and Paint Branch Rivers, at least our tributary waterways will be represented.

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seigetank178

November 20th, 2012 at 1:59 PM ^

Absolutely perfect. Comedy is what helps us all through these times. If only we could have one massive conference where each division winner would play another division winner. We would divide the coutry into regions and teams would be placed into those divisions by area. A western, southeastern, midwestern and alatic divisions. A couple of random divisions would be needed, but no one would watch those anyways.

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