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Nebraska doesn't play Wisconsin every year.  Their protected game is PSU.  If PSU craters because of the sanctions, then we're talking about a serious schedule imbalance within our own division.  It's better to just dispense with the protected games altogether.  

Bo Pelini and Jerry Kill would gladly trade the shorter travel distances in a West division for guaranteed East Coast visits every year.  The West division could be problematic from a recruiting standpoint, just as the Big 12 North became.

What about the travel distance now for Nebraska fans?  The travel to Michigan and Michigan St. are no picnic -- you're definitely flying.  And what about the distance between divisional opponents Penn St - Wisconsin.  Or Wisconsin - OSU.  Or Minnesota - Michigan. Or Minnesota - Michigan St.  These are all really long drives as it is.  I don't think knocking the inside-outside lineup due to geography holds much weight compared to what we already have now.

Agree on balance. Look at the SEC. East dominated in the 90's and now the west has ruled for a decade. The balance will always ebb and flow.

The +1 option seems absolutely horrible for whichever of the two new schools goes into the division opposite PSU.  It would have no division rivals within driving distance.  The league can't do that.

Because the dirty little secret is that Ohio, State and us are the only fanbases who really hate the alignment

Michigan and Ohio have a tradition of playing once a year, on each other's home field.  They have never played on a neutral field.  They have never played a rematch in the same year.  If we play them in a domed stadium in Indianapolis, it won't be keeping with tradition at all.  I don't think some people can grasp just how weird that will be until it happens.   

Conference title games are a joke, a money grab played in mostly empty stadiums with no students present.  They feel like exhibition games.   The Game can only go down in prestige by being associated with Lucas Oil Stadium.  Keep it once a year.  Winner wins the division.

I don't understand this thinking.  How can you not see how the rivalry has already been compromised by the fact that we're in separate divisions?  When OSU played MSU and Nebraska, we were obligated to root for them to help us get an advantage in the division race.    When we played OSU, the game couldn't have resolved anything even if they hadn't been ineligible - they would have already clinched their division, and we would have already been eliminated from ours.  

This year the game that cost us the division title was Nebraska, not OSU.  As long as we are in separate divisions from OSU, it will no longer be the absolute must-win on the schedule, as  far as winning the conference goes.  Nebraska will be that game.  Even if it does happen that the OSU game will decide the division race, we still will really be competing against Nebraska.  OSU will just happen to be the final team we play, that we need to beat to get a leg up on the Huskers.  

As it stands, the Game (the on-campus version of it) will never be a winner-take-all type of thing again, because we'll be competing in rival divisions.  The only way we can get a winner-take-all matchup is if we play in the BTCG.  But that won't happen often, and even when it does, it won't be as satisfying when it's a replay of a game played one week earlier.  I predict that if/when we do meet in the title game, there will be a huge outcry as everyone will recognize how ridiculous it is to ask the two teams to play on back to back weeks.  

How about the NCAA just ditch conference title games (and thus, divisions)?  (What's so horrible about shared conference championships?)  If an NCAA playoff is as lucrative as they think, it could make up the difference.

That's what the comment section is for.

Compared to East-West? How does adding Penn State make it easier?