The Game as the 1st game?

I wouldn't mind that.  It would be much better than some random weekend.

Last game.  Final answer

Good stuff, way to think outside the horseshoe

NO.

Early games stink, it's better to have the game when both seasons have been established, which is why the last game is the best option

If that happens, it's likely that we'll face ND the following week. OSU then ND to start the season would be a hard stretch, and it would really put all of our national prominence games early on. I'm not liking it.

Poop in my cereal.  Last game or bust.

So then our highlight of the season would come in September?  No thanks.

It's just not fair that we have to suffer the double whammy of not being in the same division as OSU and not being able to play them at the end of the season.  I could grudgingly accept being in different divisions if we were to still play the last week, but the combination of the two would make it almost like a nonconference game.  It would be a big game, but it wouldn't mean the same. 

As for the opener, for a long time we played MSU as our conference opener.   I am in favor of going back to that.  

Look at FSU v Miami. that game has no luster whats so ever. The teams are not polished, the play is faulty, and its a conference game that has major implications. 

Now look at FSU v Florida, even tho UF has been on a roll, the play is so much better from FSU and in my opinion its a bigger and a better game than FSU v Miami.

I know its not a conference game.

I am not going to kill you for the suggestion, and it is original.  But, no.  I mean hell no!

 OSU and Michigan are meant to watch each other out of the corner of their face masks for months until they finally dispose of all other foes and clash in an epic game for all the marbles.  (2006, but with a better ending.)  It is a game to be savored in anticipation rather than thrown out there.  I am resigned to the fact that the Big Ten is willing to screw this up for money.  But, the first game idea just seems like watching the last ten minutes of a good movie and then watching the rest of it.  You just end up ruining the whole thing.

it can only be the last game.

Maybe they can put some sort of system in place which would aleviate the fears of the situation in which the teams would play in the last regular season game and then the conference campionship game. Possibly some sort of tiebreaker system if the teams were to split the two games? But The Game has to be the final regular season game, there is no other way to preserve the value of the rivarly.

One game, winner goes to the Big Ten Championship game, loser doesn't.

But since Brandon knows the tradition but is also a brilliant businessman, I have decided that the only explaination for his inexplicable dallience with moving the game is a large offer from ESPN/ABC to move the game to Labor Day weekend, maybe Labor Day itself as a bookend to the Miami/FSU game. 

This would really, really suck.  I am usually quite wordy, but I don't have the words to fully express the massive "sucktitude" of moving this game. 

I have signed the petition.  I would encourage those who don't want The Game diminished in this fashion to do the same and let Brandon know how you feel. 

First conference game has really worked out well for Florida State-Miami...

after I read the title.

NO NO NO NO. Last game or I riot. Seriously, when you play a full season, that's how you become a team. Playing in the first game would involve sloppy teams still finding themself. Last game. Period.

I see that you posted this around 7:30.  It must have taken you at least a solid 2 hours to get drunk enough to think that this was a good idea.  MY by math, that means that you started drinking arounds 5:30.  Now I know it's a Friday, but you may have a problem . . .

is the worst.