Michigan's crossovers vs Ohio State's Crossovers

I have absolutely nothing to add to that.  Except, dead nuts on!

Bingo.

Create the most exciting matchups for everyone except OSU...get them to the playoff. Max the money.

Sad but true

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You are just dead solid wrong.  The reason isstated every year by those who know about scheduling.  An arrangement was made by BIG at the time of the Rutgers/MD entrance into the league.  For the next 18 years the historically best teams of the West (Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin) played the best of the East (OSU, PSU, UofM) on a 6 year rotating schedule.  This is the 5th year.  Thus, for the last 4 years we have played UW, PSU has played IU, and OSU has played NU.  This changes in 2022 and remains the same for 6 years.  I think our next 6 years are with Iowa.

We have been unlucky to have UW, while OSU has played Nebraska which has been crappy.

It also sticks a finger in Scott Frost's eye.  Just for funsies.

I just can’t wrap my mind around losing to Minnesota. Sure they snuck up on some teams last year, but if our recruiting classes can’t beat theirs than I give up. Now Wisconsin I give us a 50/50 chance. I hate to put it all on one guy but how Milton develops by then will be the difference imo. 

This is an ahole post by a buckeye, but he's not wrong.

here's hoping your luck runs out this year. It's only been two decades.

The good news: There is a name the ancients used to indicate a sea change was coming, that the winds have shifted for good.

Hint: It rhymes with Moe Jilton.

And it's coming for you, Buckeye Jon Ross.

If there is any justice in this world, you will eat these words. 

But... *looks around*... yeah. That's probably how it'll go down. 

Yeah, bjr isn't necessarily wrong. But he's forgotten someone: 

Michigan can beat wiscy & minny, the 2 preseason higher ranked West teams, while osu beats Nebraska. Iowa meanwhile plays neither.

So based on schedule I may say Iowa could be the West #1 seed for week 9 games. 

As for all the crossover games bitching, all the B10 did was drop 1 game, they didn't rewrite the entire schedule. Michigan was already scheduled to play at minny & host wiscy. They dropped Purdue from our schedule. 

So who was osu scheduled to play that got dropped? Unless it was AT iowa i don't think there's much to this conspiracy theory. 

But if it was.........

Exactly we are still in the 6 year crossover with Wisconsin and they are still with Nebraska. As long as that is going on the schedules will be uneven. A 6 year long cross over was a dumb idea in the first place but it is what it is at this point.

That is where I am at but I think 3 wins is more likely. 6-3 is a pipe dream. 

Keep the bar low.

To be fair, if you flipped our schedules, OSU would probably still be significantly favored in every single game and Michigan would still be looking at 7-1 or 6-2 with a loss to OSU and maybe PSU. Narrative won’t be any different until we beat them. 

Keep your safeties deeeep because Joe wants to go full Shane Morris and just throw rockets lol 

This is why I don’t like Michigan playing Wisconsin all the time. You can’t get a team back for the serious injury they create with their cheap shots from the prior year. Grant Newsome never came back to play. Dylan McCaffrey can’t get his time missed back from last year. Who knows what would have happened had he not had the concussion? Maybe he ends up starting over Shea over the second half of last season and has a leg up on Milton heading into this year. 
Injuries are part of the game. Purposeful injuries should not be.

They used the fact that OSU is the only team with a real chance of making the playoffs.  That is it. 

I completely believe the conference would drop OSU's hardest crossover opponent (yes, I think Iowa is better than Neb).

I am a bit surprised they wouldn't do the same for Wisconsin.  It would give them a better chance of a playoff team in case OSU slips (and make an all undefeated championship game more likely).