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GOODBYE, DIVISIONS? The Big Ten has been reportedly looking into moving from divisions to round robin play, and it looks like we're one step closer to that actually being a possibility.
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Personally, I love this, because it's going to automatically make the Big Ten title game more competitive, and you won't have a situation like in 2016 (or last year, for that matter) where the third or fourth-best team in the conference is playing in the championship game.

Enitre article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...uld-go-divisionless-and-comparing-ohio-states

NCAA committee recommends loosening conference championship game requirements

Fans who miss seeing old rivals play or dislike seeing the same few teams repeatedly appear in conference championships have reason for excitement. College football is a step closer to seeing some conferences scrap divisions and form new formats to determine who plays in the conference championship game.

Currently, a conference must play a full round-robin schedule to hold a championship game if it does not have two divisions, as the Big 12 has done since 2017. (The American Athletic Conference has operated for the last two years with an exemption waiver.)

But on April 28, the NCAA Football Oversight Committee recommended the Division I Council remove the requirements to hold a conference championship game and exempt it from the maximum number of games. This recommendation, which is not official but expected to be approved by the Council later this month, would allow conferences freedom to determine who competes in the conference championship game.

Entire article ($$$): https://theathletic.com/news/ncaa-football-conference-championship-recommends/EOTjZNYLouND/
 
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Big didn't have the balls to make the two divisions comparable. Looks like lots of The Game replays in the near future, ergo, look for The Game to be moved out of its traditional end-of-the-season slot. This prediction based on conversation with a nephew who knows a guy whose brother-in-law knows the janitor for Gene Smith's office.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
GOODBYE, DIVISIONS? The Big Ten has been reportedly looking into moving from divisions to round robin play, and it looks like we're one step closer to that actually being a possibility.
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Personally, I love this, because it's going to automatically make the Big Ten title game more competitive, and you won't have a situation like in 2016 (or last year, for that matter) where the third or fourth-best team in the conference is playing in the championship game.

Enitre article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...uld-go-divisionless-and-comparing-ohio-states

NCAA committee recommends loosening conference championship game requirements

Fans who miss seeing old rivals play or dislike seeing the same few teams repeatedly appear in conference championships have reason for excitement. College football is a step closer to seeing some conferences scrap divisions and form new formats to determine who plays in the conference championship game.

Currently, a conference must play a full round-robin schedule to hold a championship game if it does not have two divisions, as the Big 12 has done since 2017. (The American Athletic Conference has operated for the last two years with an exemption waiver.)

But on April 28, the NCAA Football Oversight Committee recommended the Division I Council remove the requirements to hold a conference championship game and exempt it from the maximum number of games. This recommendation, which is not official but expected to be approved by the Council later this month, would allow conferences freedom to determine who competes in the conference championship game.

Entire article ($$$): https://theathletic.com/news/ncaa-football-conference-championship-recommends/EOTjZNYLouND/
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Looks like Northwestern, Iowa, and possibly Wisconsin will never see Indy again.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
GOODBYE, DIVISIONS? The Big Ten has been reportedly looking into moving from divisions to round robin play, and it looks like we're one step closer to that actually being a possibility.
.
.
.
Personally, I love this, because it's going to automatically make the Big Ten title game more competitive, and you won't have a situation like in 2016 (or last year, for that matter) where the third or fourth-best team in the conference is playing in the championship game.

Enitre article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...uld-go-divisionless-and-comparing-ohio-states

NCAA committee recommends loosening conference championship game requirements

Fans who miss seeing old rivals play or dislike seeing the same few teams repeatedly appear in conference championships have reason for excitement. College football is a step closer to seeing some conferences scrap divisions and form new formats to determine who plays in the conference championship game.

Currently, a conference must play a full round-robin schedule to hold a championship game if it does not have two divisions, as the Big 12 has done since 2017. (The American Athletic Conference has operated for the last two years with an exemption waiver.)

But on April 28, the NCAA Football Oversight Committee recommended the Division I Council remove the requirements to hold a conference championship game and exempt it from the maximum number of games. This recommendation, which is not official but expected to be approved by the Council later this month, would allow conferences freedom to determine who competes in the conference championship game.

Entire article ($$$): https://theathletic.com/news/ncaa-football-conference-championship-recommends/EOTjZNYLouND/
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Looks like Northwestern, Iowa, and possibly Wisconsin will never see Indy again.
 
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My first thought was, "Well DUH! Ohio State IS the team with the winning record that all of those teams are losing to." I thought Ohio State would have the fewest games versus teams with winning records on there. But that's not correct. They have more wins (67) than the overall games played by the following teams: Iowa (66), Minnesota (63), Rutgers (61), and Maryland (65), and tied with Penn State (67) and Illinois (67). Is this lousy scheduling, or lack of bowl games, or what? Ohio State is averaging 7.9 games vs. teams with winning records. How else could it be explained that these other teams are averaging fewer than 7 games vs. teams with winning records?
 
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Last week, the Big Ten announced the largest media rights deal in college football history — by a long shot. Given the reach of the conference, including huge brands and large media markets that make advertisers salivate, the conference engaged a set of networks who were willing to pay up rather than focusing on a more limited partnership. Notably, the $7 billion deal effectively cut ESPN out of the conference’s repertoire in favor of a mélange of CBS, FOX, and NBC.

The move felt shocking, but natural — like when the last carriage left the streets of New York as automobiles took over, because Big Ten football on ESPN, in its glory days, is a vestige of another time.

For many years, ESPN was the gold standard of sports as cable television overtook broadcast production in terms of quality. Monday Night Football, moving from ABC to ESPN, was the premier game of the week. The Disney halo made the event magical, something to brighten the doldrums of Mondays.

More recently and in the collegiate sphere, the College Football Playoff is an example of how that excellent production quality translated to college football. I will always associate the black and gold branding of the CFP when I hear Fall Out Boy’s Centuries, and the pageantry of that first championship in 2014 was on a different level.

But like Icarus, ESPN flew too close to the sun. They went too far with the pageantry to the point where even finding a classic view of the game at hand became a challenge. For elite games, ESPN’s natural goal is to fill all of its many networks and radio stations with content, but the dueling simulcasts, the skycams, the local voiceovers, the competing commentary — it’s all too much and it’s a distraction when I simply want to watch a football game.
 
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NorthCoastKid said:
Boooooo

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I don't see why everyone is pissed off at the current division set-up. It's not the conference's fault, it's the fault of the schools themselves. About a decade ago Nebraska and Wisconsin were solid teams nearly every year, and every year a team out west other than those two would also be a solid team, so in theory the "current" divisional set-ups (strictly by East-West location) was quite good. Over the last decade though the Eastern Division took over totally, not due to alignment but due to the recruiting power and commitment of the schools with the division.
 
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