Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[Tlangs]

Question.....

Wouldn't 4 divisions of 4 make most sense to get Texas and ND and to ensure a balanced schedule?

It lets you play your 3 divisional foes, then that division plays another....just like the NFL rotating schedule works. That's 3 games against your division and 4 against the other, so that's 7 games. That ensures balance for everyone in the division.

This also allows for 5 OOC games, which Texas and ND and others would like to ensure their rivalry games are ensured to remain intact.

If you go to two divisions of 8, that's 7 games but then you don't get the marquee matchups that you want.

How would the conference championship game work? Top 2 divisional champs? what if 3 division champs have the same record?

 

[ScriptOhio]

So I have no audio on this board of regents meeting from the PBS site... is it me or do they just not play it when they're bull[censored]ting?

From a Nebraska blog;
http://www.omaha.com/article/20100611/NEWS/306119977#live-blog-nebraska-board-of-regents-meeting

Brian Norton, OWHsports:
It's official, from Lee Barfknecht:

Nebraska has officially accepted an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference, The World-Herald learned early Friday afternoon.

Two sources from conference offices said that Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany contacted BIg 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe on Friday morning to inform Beebe that Delany had officially invited Nebraska to join.

A source with direct knowledge of the situation said Nebraska accepted.

 

[MaliBuckeye]

How would the conference championship game work? Top 2 divisional champs? what if 3 division champs have the same record?

Jamboree. Like high school.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Anybody here have a problem with Minnesota getting screwed?

bkb is known to have sympathies for things relating to Minnesota, so, yes... everybody has a problem with it.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

Anybody here have a problem with Minnesota getting screwed?

Proper f*cked?

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

bkb is known to have sympathies for things relating to Minnesota, so, yes... everybody has a problem with it.

We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Of course, we did say it exactly this way, so that stands to reason. Well done, me. err.. you..

 

[bigdog3300]

How would the conference championship game work? Top 2 divisional champs? what if 3 division champs have the same record?

One of two ways.....

1) have semi-final games then a title game so all 4 division leaders are in there. would the NCAA allow some teams to have that one extra game, doubtful, unless it was done across the board if all BCS conf's went to the same format, so possible.

or....

2) the 2 divisions that faced each other, the top record wins (7 game record since they all played each other). Tie breaks are done based on head to head matchup. (this also allows for different conference title matchups to be done over the years so it's not the same constant matchup, i.e. OSU vs. Texas )

 

[Buckeye86]

I enjoy the pictures and everything, but now we have to get this thing to the next page so we can read the updates without having to scroll through that

 

[Oh8ch]

Good lord - it took me 6 minutes to scroll through all those pictures.

2 minutes each time.

 

[High Lonesome]

you had me till the Ed Hardy jeans

 

[Oh8ch]

I enjoy the pictures and everything, but now we have to get this thing to the next page so we can read the updates without having to scroll through that

Somebody just outed themselves.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Done deal (?)

It is done: NU to the Big Ten - Omaha.com

 

[Buckeye86]

Somebody just outed themselves.

I have no idea what you are talking about, but thanks for starting a new page

 

[Dryden]

Interesting discussion going on during The Big Show on 97.1. John Junker has admitted the Fiesta has no contingency plan, as they could conceivably get cut out of this should a Pac-16/Big-16 alliance be formed giving the conference two strong bowl affiliations: The Pac-16 brings the Rose Bowl to the table, and the Big-16 would provide the "new" Cotton Bowl at JerryWorld.

Jerry Jones isn't sitting on his hands doing nothing while the Big XII is crumbling around him.

 

[Piney]

Interesting discussion going on during The Big Show on 97.1. John Junker has admitted the Fiesta has no contingency plan, as they could conceivably get cut out of this should a Pac-16/Big-16 alliance be formed giving the conference two strong bowl affiliations: The Pac-16 brings the Rose Bowl to the table, and the Big-16 would provide the "new" Cotton Bowl at JerryWorld.

Jerry Jones isn't sitting on his hands doing nothing while the Big XII is crumbling around him.

Won't the MWC champ end up at the Fiesta? Seems like a pretty good fit