Big Ten Conference Divisions

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

From the BTN on live TV, the OFFICIAL divisions for 2011 are:

No real names for divisions yet.

X:
Ohio State
Penn St
Wisconsin
Purdue
Illinois
Indiana

O:
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan St
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern

There will be 1 'permanent' crossover game for each team:

tOSU-TSUN (The Game will be the last day of the season)
PSU-Neb
Wisc-Minn
Ill-NW'ern
Ind-MSU
Purdue-Iowa

Thank God they preserved the Illi-Buck.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Does that dumb fuckhole realize that would've made that game completely meaningless, the game they play on their channel about 300 times a year? I wish him a slow painful death. And soon. That or retirement. I'm open to either.

You're looking at it with an NFL mentality. The Game is still a must win because a loss that late in the year kills your NC hopes... and I'd like to think the eye will be on that prize. College, for the better in my view, is fundamentally different than the pros in that respect (and this difference is part of the reason I am against a playoff format).

 

[cjmik_75]

You're looking at it with an NFL mentality. The Game is still a must win because a loss that late in the year kills your NC hopes... and I'd like to think the eye will be on that prize. College, for the better in my view, is fundamentally different than the pros in that respect (and this difference is part of the reason I am against a playoff format).

THIS.

 

[rocketman]

Here are the conference schedules for the next 2 years.

2011 tOSU Conference Schedule:

Oct 01 MSU
Oct 08 at NEBRASKA!! (book your hotel in Lincoln or Omaha now)
Oct 15 at Illinois
Oct 22 Bye
Oct 29 Wisconsin
Nov 05 Indiana
Nov 12 at Purdue
Nov 19 Penn St
Nov 26 at TSUN

not on schedule: Iowa, NW'ern, Minny


2012 tOSU Conference Schedule:

Sep 29 at MSU
Oct 06 Nebraska (in Columbus - book your hotel now!)
Oct 13 at Indiana
Oct 20 Purdue
Oct 27 at Penn St
Nov 03 Illinois
Nov 10 Bye
Nov 17 at Wisconsin
Nov 24 TSUN

not on schedule: Iowa, NW'ern, Minny

Really excited to see Nebraska on the schedule. That game is going to be EPIC. 2011 season is starting to look like a real challenge.

 

[Class'13]

Doug Lesmerises confirms crossover games WILL count in Big Ten.

That takes care of the "The Game won't matter"

I'm a fan, although I'm likely one in a million here. The Game is always The Game. A Big Ten CCG is a Big Ten CCG, if it happens to be vs. scUM, it doesn't diminish the first go around one bit for me.

 

[cjmik_75]

Jon Miller and LeCharles Bentley doing the pulse on the BTN and had a viewer e-mail that didn't really get answered:

"How will the Divison Champions be decided? Will the inter-divisonal games be factored into who wins a particular divison or will the Champion of each divison be decided solely based on the intra-divisonal record?"

I think it will be a teams intra-divisonal record soley that will determine the divisonal champion but I don't think it's definitively been answered.

How have the ACC, SEC and Big12 been doing it?


SO ACCORDING TO DAVE REVSINE (BTN) THE DIVISONAL WINNER IS DETERMINED BY OVERALL CONFERENCE RECORD.

 

[Mrstickball]

...

So, whats worse, BP?

Losing your job due to downsizing

OR

The OSU/Mich split in the B10?

 

[ScriptOhio]

I think someone can remove "possible" from the thread title now.

 

[BB73]

I think someone can remove "possible" from the thread title now.

I've been busy the last 20 minutes trying (unsuccessfully) to book a hotel room in Lincoln in October, 2011. :tongue2:

 

[strohs]

I like the splits, and more importantly (honestly the only thing I cared about), was that they didn't move The Game.

Any ideas as to what the final division names will be?

 

[OSUScoonie12]

Here are the conference schedules for the next 2 years.

2011 tOSU Conference Schedule:

Oct 01 MSU
Oct 08 at NEBRASKA!! (book your hotel in Lincoln or Omaha now)
Oct 15 at Illinois
Oct 22 Bye
Oct 29 Wisconsin
Nov 05 Indiana
Nov 12 at Purdue
Nov 19 Penn St
Nov 26 at TSUN

not on schedule: Iowa, NW'ern, Minny


2012 tOSU Conference Schedule:

Sep 29 at MSU
Oct 06 Nebraska (in Columbus - book your hotel now!)
Oct 13 at Indiana
Oct 20 Purdue
Oct 27 at Penn St
Nov 03 Illinois
Nov 10 Bye
Nov 17 at Wisconsin
Nov 24 TSUN

not on schedule: Iowa, NW'ern, Minny

Does this mean everyone goes on a 2-year rotation of not playing teams?

 

[ScriptOhio]

I've been busy the last 20 minutes trying (unsuccessfully) to book a hotel room in Lincoln in October, 2011. :tongue2:

 

[Joe6809]

Yeah, I don't like that much. I'd rather have it be every other year. Guys typically are lucky if they start two seasons, so it would be unfortunate if a guy never got to play against a team in his own conference, especially if he happened to be from that state.

 

[BB73]

Conference Divisional Tiebreakers, from the BTN show.

Division winner is determined by overall conference record (yes, crossover games count in the standings).

First tiebreaker is head-to-head (which will always apply in a 2-way tie).

Multiple team tiebreaker:
- collective head-to-head among tied teams
- if 3 teams all beat each other, the next tiebreaker is to use the records within that division only
- last divisional tiebreaker is to use the 'BCS component' (presumably that's just the BCS standings)

 

[MightbeaBuck]

I've been busy the last 20 minutes trying (unsuccessfully) to book a hotel room in Lincoln in October, 2011.

Besides the folks that would normally be trying, plus the Buckeye faithful that are trying to book a room without any prompting, I think I know the reason you can't get through. Somebody alerted Buckeye Planet, with it's hundreds of followers. Hmmm, wonder who did that?

...Oct 08 at NEBRASKA!! (book your hotel in Lincoln or Omaha now)...