(10-09-2023 10:38 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(10-09-2023 10:19 AM)Garrettabc Wrote:  

(10-09-2023 08:22 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(10-09-2023 06:31 AM)Garrettabc Wrote:  It’s not just the record in the conference championship game; one division is a meat grinder, the other is a meat fluffer.

Yet the cross-divisonal records were near idenitcal.

(10-09-2023 06:31 AM)Garrettabc Wrote:  Seems like if Penn State was put in the opposite division of OSU and UM this would give the BigTen a better shot of a more competitive championship game.

Why would Penn St have wanted to host Michigan and Ohio St once every 6th year? Or travel near NYC and DC every 6th year?

That's a massively steep cost just to keep a few people on message boards happy with a more competitive championship game.

I’m not saying just a PSU switch, but a whole division shuffle. The ACC for example had split up the Florida schools and North Carolina schools because of competitive balance and exposure for recruiting purposes.

The BigTen could have been something like this:

Leaders - Legends
UM. - MSU
OSU. - PSU
Iowa. - NU
Minn. - UW
Ill. - NW
Ind. - Pur
UMd. - RU

What is there to debate?

If anything, the Big Ten agrees. Divisions are gone. The solution has already been implemented.