BSpringsteen
Well-Known Member
Likely Nebraska's only demand is to play in the same division as Iowa.
You can seed them 1-6 but in reality - Ohio State is clearly #1. Michigan and Nebraska are clearly in the second group so you can split that either way. Penn State is alone at 4, and Iowa Wisconsin could be mismatched as 5-6.
Wisconsin has three championships, Iowa has 2, but Wisconsin has none since 1999.
Since 2002 - Iowa has finished above Wisconsin 5 years, and tied another. They have only finished behind Wisconsin stwice in the last eight years.
My point is this. Iowa is no slouch in this argument and isn't a clear number 6 to Wisconsins 5. Furthermore, I don't think Barta is fighting for much of anything besides playing Nebraska every year. When you have two schools that share a border saying that they have to play each other every year, that is going to be tough to ignore.
I don't think Iowa or Nebraska care about anything besides being in the same division and making sure only one other team from the big 6 are in that division. The rest of it is not worth caring about.
Lastly, the entire point of separating Michigan and Ohio State is to have an East/West split make some semblance of sense.
Alvarez walks around Madison like Tony Soprano. He is simply looking to get his name out there as often as possible and appear to be in charge. I seriously doubt that Iowa or Nebraska is allowing this to happen and furthermore, they have a reason not to. What is Wisconsins reasoning? Because they think playing Nebraska would be neat-o?
You can seed them 1-6 but in reality - Ohio State is clearly #1. Michigan and Nebraska are clearly in the second group so you can split that either way. Penn State is alone at 4, and Iowa Wisconsin could be mismatched as 5-6.
Wisconsin has three championships, Iowa has 2, but Wisconsin has none since 1999.
Since 2002 - Iowa has finished above Wisconsin 5 years, and tied another. They have only finished behind Wisconsin stwice in the last eight years.
My point is this. Iowa is no slouch in this argument and isn't a clear number 6 to Wisconsins 5. Furthermore, I don't think Barta is fighting for much of anything besides playing Nebraska every year. When you have two schools that share a border saying that they have to play each other every year, that is going to be tough to ignore.
I don't think Iowa or Nebraska care about anything besides being in the same division and making sure only one other team from the big 6 are in that division. The rest of it is not worth caring about.
Lastly, the entire point of separating Michigan and Ohio State is to have an East/West split make some semblance of sense.
Alvarez walks around Madison like Tony Soprano. He is simply looking to get his name out there as often as possible and appear to be in charge. I seriously doubt that Iowa or Nebraska is allowing this to happen and furthermore, they have a reason not to. What is Wisconsins reasoning? Because they think playing Nebraska would be neat-o?
