If OSU-UM isn't the last regular game on the schedule, it's still not 'right'.

I don't get why people are griping, because in any scenario, many fans will have very legitimate reasons to gripe.

People may say in some years the Game will not have any meaning, and frankly, it didn't the last 2 years, so that is not something the "conference" controls. To me, the Game and all the stakes it usually provide is more about denying the other team the conference title or a national championship. This will continue. If either team has a real bad year, they still have the chance to ruin national championship hopes, although a conference title game may be able to help the 1 loss team salvage their season with a BCS title bid. A 1 loss team could beat an undefeated team in the last game, thus both teams meet each other again for the title game, knowing that even the losing team will not get a bcs bid because there were the 2 other 1 loss team from each divisions waiting. (Such as Nebraska who lost to Michigan, and Penn st who lost to Ohio st, but both didn't get in..so there are 4 1-loss teams in the conference, the team who most recently lost is usually left out...unless you are Oklahoma a few years ago.)

I am excited for any scenario, because the stakes will always be high, no matter what the Big 10 conference decides. I think the fans have spoken, we want the game to be the last game, thus we shouldn't even worry about conference breakdown/scenarios since anything, and everything will happen regardless of the odds. That's just college football, everything is chaotic and it works for all of us, depending on which side we end up on.

I wasn't against moving the game, especially if the alternative was this.  I can't stand the thought of UM/OSU being meaningless, and that's more important to me than moving the game up a month.   No one's suggesting they play in the summer; it could still be cold and rainy.

With ESPN as the only source, the odds on its accuracy are 50/50 at best.

Switch Iowa with Wisconsin and call them Northish and Southish Divisions.

Okay, we all understand that with the addition of Nebraska, something has to change. If the schedule comes out such that all divisional games will be completed before the last week of the season, the last week can stay as a "rivaly week" - an interdivision slate. That means M-OSU, PSU-Nebraska (the "Newbie Bowl"), Wisconsin-Minnesota, Iowa-Illinois (?), Purdue-MSU, and Indiana-Northwestern (The Journalism Bowl?).

Understanding that something has to give, that's a fair compromise. The "rivalry week" games will not interfere with the divisional standings, leaving the excitement of the final divisional games to the second-to-last week of the season. Further, teams who are out of contention will still have the traditional incentive to win their last games - to beat a rival or knock their opponent out of the National Title picture.

Michigan and OSU wont be able to keep eachother from the title game, but they will be able to affect National Title aspirations (as it's been in the last few years, anyway), and if they each win their divisions, they will re-match on a neutral field - weren't we all clammoring for this in 2006, anyway?

If they do something else with the schedule, then I'll go buy my pitchfork. But understanding that Nebraska's addition DOES create a need for some shake-up, that's the best way to do it. Let's just hope that's how the schedule happens...