East Lansing reporter claims to know divisions...

[DexterMorgan]

I find it very hard to believe that Iowa vs Wisky will trump Minn vs Wisky

Competitively it makes sense.

Not really "fair" that Michigan and OSU have to play and Nebraska and PSU have to play then Wisconsin gets Minnesota and Iowa gets Purdue.

 

[H8IAST8]

This sets up well for ND to be placed in the West (Michigan and MSU) and their protected rivarly being Purdue since Iowa fans won't care if we lose our "rivarly" with Purdue for an Eastern Team or any other for that matter

 

[hawkeyescott]

Sorry, but OSU has IU,Ill,and Purdue....bottom-feeders...now that is easy.
Iowa has Michigan(traditional power),NW(going for 3rd straight bowl),Neb(top 10 team and program),MSU(always among most talented teams in the league)....no, it could be much easier.

In fact if we switched divisions with OSU...PSU and Wisky are teams we own and would be our only tough games...now that is an easy road.
They have gilded the road for OSU to the title game every year.

You're ****** crazy, both PSU and Wisconsin are better than NW, MSU, Michigan and Minnesota, so IMO Iowa will have 4 "so called easier" games in their own division then they would playing PSU and Wisconsin every year. Using Michigan and traditional power is fine but what they were doing 10 years ago doesn't mean crap in 2011.

These divisions set up very nicely for Iowa.

 

[tm3308]

If this happens then imo Iowa got everything we wanted in the divisional alignment (assuming this is true of course)

I would like to play PSU every year but missing them and OSU from time to time isnt really a bad thing

Especially if the BT does expand more and ND is a part of it. If we got them in our division.....that would be fun to maybe develop a rivalry with them.

 

[eyekwah]

http://www.hawkeyenation.com/forum/...ed-rival-game-should-not-final-weekend-2.html

I wrote up this alignment of NE, MI, IA, MSU, MN, NW back on 7-8-10. In paragraph three of my response found on page two of the above thread you will find the alignment I predicted. This alignment was based on a 9 game schedule and will restore almost all rivalries.

 

[H8IAST8]

cookie goes to eyekwah. There were about 1,007 different allignments, someone was bound to get it right

 

[H8IAST8]

Also, can we stop the "ESPN says" threads. Quit giving ESPN credit for anything.

 

[nationalchamps]

The East will be a beast come basketball season.

 

[bws258]

best game I've ever seen is still Purdue 2002

Banks to Clark

 

[BSpringsteen]

Purdue? Icky. That would have been my last choice.

 

[bws258]

Indiana would have been my last choice ...eeewww

 

[CAARHawk]

best game I've ever seen is still Purdue 2002

Banks to Clark

Agreed. And I was at Cap One 2005.

 

[bws258]

cookie goes to eyekwah. There were about 1,007 different allignments, someone was bound to get it right

I was only off by one (switch Minnesota & Purdue), and that change would not have effected Iowa's schedule, since it seems Purdue will be protected ... what do I get?

 

[imported_ankle23]

I was only off by one (switch Minnesota & Purdue), and that change would not have effected Iowa's schedule, since it seems Purdue will be protected ... what do I get?

 

[bws258]

nice.

 

[fufred]

the last week will be a division game so the same game doesnt happen two weeks in a row

Nope, OSU-UM stays put. I don't mind the divisions now that "The Game" is protected.

 

[imported_ankle23]

Nope, OSU-UM stays put. I don't mind the divisions now that "The Game" is protected.

no one ever said it wasn't going to be a protected game. next you'll say you don't mind it being an oct. game as long as you play every year.....

 

[tm3308]

no one ever said it wasn't going to be a protected game. next you'll say you don't mind it being an oct. game as long as you play every year.....

I think by "protected", he meant that it's staying on the final weekend. Which is good, because they won't match up that often in the BTCG anyway.

 

[hawkeyescott]

I think by "protected", he meant that it's staying on the final weekend. Which is good, because they won't match up that often in the BTCG anyway.

Exactly, might as well play OSU/Michigan as the last game as OSU will play either Iowa or Nebraska in the title game anyway for the next few years.

 

[briankaldenberg]

Well we theoretically have already protected our Nebraska, Michigan and Minnesota games. I think both Iowa and Wisconsin feel it might be too hard to win their own divisions if they had to beat up on each other each year.

Wasn't the Big 12 divisions still based on your overall conference record? If that's the way the Big 10 is going to work then theoretically both Wisconsin and Iowa benefit from not having to play every year.