Thanks. I was too lazy to do the work. The East had a bigger margin than the norm this year. I posted earlier that over the years of East and West divisions, the East averaged only a one win margin annually. But, as we all know, the East has dominated the championship game. Well, sort of. Ohio State has dominated the Championship game.Here are all of the inter-divisonal games this year:
PSU 35, PU 31 at PU
IU 23, IL 20 at IU
tOSU 52, UW 21 at tOSU
MN 34, MSU 7 at MSU
IA 27, RU 10 at RU
Mich 27, IA 14 at IA
UNL 35, IU 21 at UNL
PSU 17, NW 7 at PSU
UNL 14, RU 13 at RU
PU 31, UMD 29 at UMD
MSU 34, UW 28 at MSU
tOSU 54, Iowa 10 at tOSU
UMD 31, NW 24 at UMD
PSU 45, MN 17 at PSU
MN 31, RU 0 at MN
tOSU 21, NU 7 at NW
MSU 23, IL 15 at IL
UW 23, UMD 10 at UW
Mich beat Neb at Mich
Mich beat ILL at Mich
Purdue beat Ind at Ind
East leads 13-8 with only the Big Ten Conference game left.
Doesn’t really matter with California schools coming in. Two divisions could absolutely be constructed at that point, even retention of the East/West. I still like that model rather than a wide open regular season where variability of the schedule could be a disaster.
Me too and no matter how you divide the conference only 1 division can have Ohio State so it's always going to be unbalanced and whichever division you put Ohio State in you pretty much have to put Michigan with them so they play every year. Unless they go back to that stupid protected rival again (ours was Purdue!).Doesn’t really matter with California schools coming in. Two divisions could absolutely be constructed at that point, even retention of the East/West. I still like that model rather than a wide open regular season where variability of the schedule could be a disaster.