Make the Rose Bowl the B1G Championship
If USC/UCLA get it done, move the B1G championship to the Rose Bowl. Play the SEC champ for the mythical national championship. Who cares about the rest?
But if you want to be enlightened, you could do a 4-team playoff with the B1G champ in one bracket and the SEC champ in the other, with two at-large berths.
Hard pass
Personally, I love the idea in theory, but I hate the idea of playing a conference championship game at another team's home field (or quasi-home field for USC) three times zones away as a "neutral" site.
Come on. Nobody goes to UCLA games.
Any solution that means I never have to go back to Indianapolis works for me.
Rose Bowl has to be site of Big Ten title game. That would reinvigorate it which I wholeheartedly approve of.
Meh, cfb is NFL lite now and not much can reinvigorate the non playoff bowls.
I’m all for paying the players within a structure, similar to professional sports. Instead it’s the bagman on steroids. Really glad we were able to enjoy last year (42-27). Hoping we have another great year given the talent on the current team.
The sport, however, is quickly trending further and further away from how Michigan wants and is willing to do things.
Not sure how competitive we look 2-4 years from now.
I’d rather not watch OSU vs USC or Oregon 5 out of every 6 years in a bowl that once held some prestige and tradition.
Michigan will adjust because it will have to. Eeyoring about the future is pointless.
Sure, keep ignoring the past 20 years of UM football. Not sure if this steadfast confidence in UM adjusting is based on arrogance, foolishness or both.
It’s the SEC, OSU, and whoever else is willing to pay to join the party - Clemson, Notre Dame, USC, etc.
Nothing over the past 20 years, in terms of sustained success or innovation, suggests that UM will be “the leaders and best” staying ahead of the modern college football curve. Nothing they are doing now suggests they want to be leaders in this new NIL era.
Both the past and the present suggest mediocrity.
Michigan has won 10 plus games four times in the last seven. Two division titles and a conference title.
“Mediocrity”
Don't waste your time, he will either keep edgelording, throw a hissy fit, or some combination of the two.
This is awesome because I have always thought of you as an Eeyore.
Not an insult, my bro is an Eeyore. That's my favorite person on earth.
Just hoping that you like him are self aware enough to realize when pot meets kettle.
C'mon man, you sound like a crochity old grandpa.
"The sport, however, is quickly trending further and further away from how Michigan wants and is willing to do things.
Not sure how competitive we look 2-4 years from now."
Yeah, no shit, things change, everything changes. I have a very simple outlook on life,
"if you're not moving forward, you're moving backward"
I know you realize just how much money is at stake here and how much the University of Michigan relies not only on the revenue generated but the alumni donations generated by the football team. Michigan is consistently one of the top 5 most profitable football programs in the country. I know you understand just how absolutely vital it is to maintain that for the future of the university.
Michigan will adapt, it has no choice. Everything is predicated on the football teams continued valuation.
No way. That’s a road game for the majority of the conference and a huge boost for its newest members for absolutely no reason. The B1G championships is currently in Indy because it’s a largely central location allowing for most fans to travel to the game. If you’re going to change it then have it be at the home institution alternating between big ten east and west.
this....exactly this.
I don't know. I hate indoors football, which looks like a video game to me. Give me the mud and grass stains of the Rose Bowl every day of the week. Now, if we could have an early December game outdoors in the Midwest (and, I mean, why not -- the entire Big Ten plays regular-season games the week before), then I'm all for it!
The Big Ten Championship game at Michigan Stadium, or Kinnick, or the Horseshoe, or Happy Valley? Would be awesome.
Sigh. They'll never do it. But I swear, I don't know why. They would still sell it out. Would sponsors care? Who wouldn't enjoy it?
Again, people, this isnt about whats fair, how it looks or what anyone prefers. This is about generating revenue and that is what the schools will consider when choosing a site. I will predict that they will rotate the game every three years between the B1G East, the B1G Central and the B1G West. Three divisions, 21 teams.
Did you all forget how many eggs Michigan had laid on the west coast over the last few decades? Hard pass on that one. They can come feel some cold, even if it’s walking into a dome.
When was the last time we won on the West Coast? Might be missing one but we lost to USC in 2007, Texas in 2005, USC in 2004, Washington in 2001, and UCLA in 2000. Maybe Hawaii in 1999 or 1998 was the last time we won out west. True west coast games I think would have been in the Rose Bowl against Washington State in 1998. (I'm going off the year played not the season)
you're right. last wins were 1998 rose bowl and the weird year we played hawaii after AN ohio state in november 1998
Oh yes. Holding Washington to about 108 yards of total offense in Seattle but losing because they blocked a FG and returned it 60 yards for a TD and then a fluky tipped pass that bounced right in their defender's hand for a pick six two plays later.
Or losing by 3 to a UCLA team that didn't even end up qualifying for a bowl game. Granted Drew Henson injured his foot two weeks before the season started and we had to play a freshmen John Navarre.
And losing by 4 at unranked Oregon thanks to every single special teams disaster that could possibly happen in one game. The Ducks would go on to lose their next three games by a combined score of 139-47...leaving us all to wonder, where the hell were these guys when they played Michigan?
For the most part, all our games on the west coast are always winnable...but something INSANELY stupid/fluky/insane will ALWAYS happen at the absolute worst time to make you want to pull your hair out. If you took away just one of the 100 missed tackles in the Rose Bowl against Texas, that would have been the difference between winning and losing.
Yeah...fuck having the conference title game out there.
Don’t worry, it will be OSU playing in that game 6 out of every 7 years the way the sport is trending and UM’s unwillingness to adapt to new recruiting realities.
I don't mean this personally, but fuck off with this negativity. We haven't played one game after the best season in at least two decades, and you're already throwing in the towel. Jeez, what a fan base we have.
Yes, because I am absolutely CERTAIN that the site of the B1G championship game will be determined or influenced by the previous results/record of any team currently in the league. Makes perfect sense.
Playing the B1G championship game at the Rose Bowl would be a FUCKING TELEVISION GOLD MINE.
Rotate it every three years between B1G East, Central and West. Three divisions, seven teams. NONE of which include NotHer Dome.
Thats it, thats all.
all this because some team doesn't play well in the snow.....
I don't think there will be a big ten title game. I would expect to see expanded playoffs very soon.
There definitely will be. Too much loot to be made.
Do agree on the money but if they expand playoffs and other conferences are not doing it. Definitely at risk.
I am already so priced out of making the trip to INDY let alone the West Coast. If this goes onward and upward I might be priced out of watching from home.
Alternate it between Indy and LA.
the only way these super duper conferences work is if you split them into two very large divisions with hardly any crossovers, or you go with Seth's showcase. With a 20 team league you'd need 3 perma rivals and an 11 game conference slate. It could work with 19 too, 2 perma rivals and 10 conference games.
It's already silly, but I think the upper limit for a conference would be 23 schools - all 12 games are conference games, you'd get 2 permanent rivals, and you'd see every campus in the league in 4 years.
Hard pass, but I clearly don't have a say.
Not interested in that and I actually think it's a stupid idea