Big Ten Division/7pm Program Open Thread

Submitted by M-Wolverine on
How about this...as we're getting ready for the announcements, and while viewing during the program/feed, we have a good old fashioned open thread, where we can post reaction, rumors, complaints, and anything else you can think of. We can make it another half hour, can't we?

formerlyanonymous

September 1st, 2010 at 6:33 PM ^

If they do mention alignments in terms of sports other than football, someone please drop me a comment. No BTN here. Rumors are basketball will stay division-less, which one would hope based off the group of death. But other Olympic sports would be great to know about if they mention it.

Thanks.

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MaizenBlueBP

September 1st, 2010 at 6:41 PM ^

I don't get the people complaining about possibly having to play TUOS twice a year.  If we have to play them a second time it means we've had a really nice season.  I also believe its much tougher to play @ camp randall and @ happy valley then it is to go to Iowa or Nebraska.  Definitely agree that the bottom of the division is stronger on our side but after we show the world Michigan is back, none of tha will matter.  I'm so pumped for the season.

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M-Wolverine

September 1st, 2010 at 7:14 PM ^

Besides, I wasn't playing. 35-0. I think I was obsessed on MGoBlog concerning M-OSU, so I wasn't there, but it sounded like Catholic Central is ready for another run. (I hope...or we really suck). Now I could talk about why the Catholic schools and public schools have the same playoff...but that's just whining this week.

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the_big_house 500th

September 1st, 2010 at 6:58 PM ^

but I really do think we can beat Iowa this year. Our offense destroyed their defense in the first half of the 09 game and in reality we should of never lost that game. I think we have a great chance to upset them in the Big House!

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moffle

September 1st, 2010 at 8:23 PM ^

I don't think this will be finalized for a while, but the consensus seems to be that it'll be a north/south split:

South: Arizonas-USC-UCLA-Cal-Stanford

North: Colorado-Utah-Oregons-Washingtons

The other main option would be pretending that the Bay Area is north of Boulder and Salt Lake City.

The primary issue is that nobody wants to give up playing in SoCal every year because of recruiting.

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PurpleStuff

September 1st, 2010 at 7:14 PM ^

Though I'm not happy that we've been split up from OSU, I think we are big winners on the "path to the championship game" front.  We miss both teams with a strong natural recruiting base (OSU and PSU), get Iowa instead of Wisconsin (easier to recruit to Madison than Iowa City I think), and get Northwestern instead of Illinois or Purdue (the two bottom-half programs that I think have high-celing potential/history).  Our two closest competitors for the division title are in the middle of nowhere and I don't see any real threat at the bottom of the division.

I think the rest of the league is going to get sick of seeing Michigan in the championship game really fast.

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