10-11 in favor of the east this year according to someone one the radio this week.
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Is Delaney out of his mind?
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No way. tOSU would be so pissed to have to play a team they just spanked badly. There would be no benefit by the playoff committee as they would have to woodshed them again or it would look like a step down. tOSU wont be having any of that. Sorry Michigan don't suck so bad and you can maybe beat the bucks someday.
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This year it was Ohio State and someone other than Northwestern.
Exactly. Beating Texas, OU got redemption for their only loss. tOSU beating Michigan again would not have helped them as much as a convincing rematch win over Purdue. If Michigan wins a rematch with tOSU, it doesn't erase their 23 point loss to tOSU. I think Georgia stays ahead of both tOSU and UM regardless of who wins the rematch.
Delaney needs to realize that Clemson played a 7-5 Pittsburg team in their CC game, but still became the #2 seed.
Obviously it is better for NU if the Divisions remain as they are and the CC game remains a contest between the 2 division winners. NU will always have a decent chance to win the West and get to a CC game, but always precarious a chance to get in a CC game if divisions disappear and it becomes subjective.
I don't think the B1G ADs would support Delany's idea.
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Because it would be subjective. Let's say for example one team finishes undefeated and then there are two teams 10-2. MI and NE. Mi is rated 9 and NE ranked 10. Ne has actually played a tougher schedule and beaten a team or two ranked higher than the ones MI beat. So now who is the better team? B1G will always go with MI or OSU no matter who else is in the conversation. They will also always find a way to justify it.
As far as east vs west right now. Realigning as a result. It is short sighted thinking. Our first 2 years in the B1G Wisky won the title. Since the last realignment 2 games have been blowouts. 3 out of 5 have been 10 points or less. The west teams are currently in a reset mode. NE and Purdue as well as NWU seem all to be on the rise.
If you keep realigning and changing the rules you make the conference less attractive to good teams that may want to join and to recruits to all but 1 or two teams.
I was typing mine as yours came up. Sounds like we have the same idea though.
See 1978 NE vs OK part 1 and part 2. Only time I ever remember TO being that pissed.
Why settle it on the field when we can just make things up as we go along? 
If Delaney wants to make changes to the structure, change it so that only divisional games count towards the divisional winner. It’s no secret that Nebraska regularly has a tougher path than their divisional foes when it comes to crossovers.
with 16 teams, into 2 divisions, that means a player would be NOT BE able to have a home game with every team even every 4 years, it would take 8 years to cycle thru a process of getting a home game with every team,----- if you have a conference, you should at least play them a bit more often then that. we cant cycle thru a process even now of getting a home game with every team every 4 years, with 14 teams we have now it takes at least 5 years to cycle them thru Lincoln
Apparently, the West's role is just to be a spoiler for the East. Time to change that and just win the whole thing ourselves.
That would make too much sense. Its better to be assigned to a weak division or conference and slip in. And then call it "earning it on the field" when it was actually earned during conference alignment decisions and scheduling.
I recall being in the latter camp. All we need to make the conference a real cluster is add Texas.
