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College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

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With a name like Crist I don't think ND can lose. Even if he gets injured he will just resurrect himself. :D

I believe there is a decent game tonight as well. USC @ Hawaii. Would be nice to see Hawaii blow them out by 30.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
With a name like Crist I don't think ND can lose. Even if he gets injured he will just resurrect himself. :D

I believe there is a decent game tonight as well. USC @ Hawaii. Would be nice to see Hawaii blow them out by 30.
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I don't know, with nothing on the line for them this year, I'm going to have a tough time rooting against USC as hard as I usually do.

Pitt-Utah might not be bad tonight.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
With a name like Crist I don't think ND can lose. Even if he gets injured he will just resurrect himself. :D

I believe there is a decent game tonight as well. USC @ Hawaii. Would be nice to see Hawaii blow them out by 30.
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Has USC really fallen so far so fast that this is considered a decent game? I mean, I know Kiffen is terrible and all, but this is still USC we're talking about, right?

(see, Bob - even I say something nice about the PAC-10 occasionally...in a backhanded sort of way. :) )
 
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LynahFan said:
Has USC really fallen so far so fast that this is considered a decent game? I mean, I know Kiffen is terrible and all, but this is still USC we're talking about, right?

(see, Bob - even I say something nice about the PAC-10 occasionally...in a backhanded sort of way. :) )
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Hawaii is always great offensively at home. Lane Kiffin can screw up anything. USC lost a lot of "depth" due to sanctions.

This should certainly be competitive from Hawaii's standpoint.
 
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Hammer said:
Exactly. And there's another issue with the 9 game conference slate. Some schools with big capacities are going to have 5 road games, and thus are only able to schedule 7 at home. Michigan, MSU, OSU, PSU and Wisconsin all have capacities over 75,000 and are reasonably able to fill their stadiums on a regular basis. If you stay with an 8-game Big 10 schedule, you've got 4 road games every year. A smart AD will shoot for 4 non-conference home games more years than not. Michigan and MSU have long standing home-and-home agreements with Notre Dame and aren't able to do so every year, but every other year they are able to have 8 home games total now. Those big stadiums generate a nice boost to the athletic department's checkbook. Follow the money, boys. That's how we got 12-team conferences and conference championship games in the first place.
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FWIW, the Big Ten has said one of the reasons that a nine game schedule won't occur until 2015 is because they're trying to figure out how to ensure that nobody is "forced" into a six game home schedule in a given year. By way of example, you can guarantee that if Michigan is slotted to play Notre Dame in South Bend in 2016, Michigan will get five conference games at home that season. Same for if Iowa is scheduled to play at Iowa State, etc. Juggling the rivalries and the already-locked-in games for 2013 and 2014 is the reason why it's going to take so long to go to nine games inside the conference.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
1) I disagree. They're fair. But similarly this is a gut feeling for me as well and I have no evidence either. Besides, you still have to go through the top team in the other division to make it to a championship/preferrable at large.

2) I agree, but will defer to badger fans. If they don't care in general, then I don't have a problem with it.

3) What hard decisions? It's not a cop out at all. If an easy decision exists you should probably make it. This was an easy decision. Sure a couple of these cross division rivalries blow but you weren't going to please everyone.

4) True, but I don't see this as a problem.
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The cross-division rivalries blow because this wasn't about rivalries at all, it was about getting as many big-time matchups as possible.

This picture really says it all about how this sucks for UW:

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/big-ten-division-palooza/
big-ten-divisions.jpg


Frank the Tank's earlier suggestion for divisions was far better, IMO:

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2...-big-ten-dont-create-the-new-coke-conference/

To me, there are 3 “pods” of schools in the Big Ten:

POD A:
Michigan
Ohio State
Penn State
Michigan State

POD B:
Illinois
Northwestern
Indiana
Purdue

POD C:
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota

Here are my division alignment parameters:

(1) 2 teams from each pod are in each division
(2) 1 permanent intra-pod cross-division opponent
(3) Michigan and Ohio State are kept together (meaning Penn State and Nebraska must be together)
(4) Don’t let either Penn State or Nebraska be on islands
(5) Equal access to prime recruiting territories means as much as competitive balance

So, here’s my proposed division alignment:

DIVISION A
Michigan
Ohio State
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Northwestern
Purdue

DIVISION B
Penn State
Michigan State
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana

PERMANENT CROSS-DIVISION RIVALRIES
Michigan – Michigan State
Ohio State – Penn State
Wisconsin – Nebraska
Minnesota – Iowa
Northwestern - Illinois
Purdue – Indiana
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That has balance, it has all the rivalries protected (except for UW-Iowa, but that was kinda doomed from the start - and UW and Iowa both get Nebraska in exchange), and maintains potential big matchups in the championship game.
 
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bueller said:
Not enough bleeps for it to be BK. It sounds like it was filtered through an SID or two.
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He can turn on the charm when he wants to. It was really only at practice and at the game when Drunken Irish Sailormouth was in use. ;) :cool:
 
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bueller said:
Not enough bleeps for it to be BK. It sounds like it was filtered through an SID or two.
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It was on camera. I watched the video at NBC somewhere. Someone asked him if Williams was banged up, and Kelly said that no, he'd just turned 21 and was feeling a little older.
 
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Minnesota traveling to Mid Tenn State to play tonight? :confused: They should never have to travel to play MTSU...ever!

eta: Also these announcers seem to think MN is cold year round as the 88 deg temp and 40% humidity might wear out the gophers late in the game since they are from up north...
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Minnesota traveling to Mid Tenn State to play tonight? :confused: They should never have to travel to play MTSU...ever!

eta: Also these announcers seem to think MN is cold year round as the 88 deg temp and 40% humidity might wear out the gophers late in the game since they are from up north...
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They also referred to the gophers as "a good football team" so they obviously don't know too much about college football.
 
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Someone needs to intervene at ESPN and put a stop to this South Carolina opening the season nonsense.
 
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WeWantMore said:
Someone needs to intervene at ESPN and put a stop to this South Carolina opening the season nonsense.
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Much like Christmas shopping, the fluffing of the SEC begins earlier every year.

I do like what I see from future Pac 10 member Utah tonight. The Big East over the Mountain West Conference for BCS bids was always dubious on merit these past few years.
 
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Anyone watching this Utah/Pitt game?

Unreal ending to regulation.

30-yard field goal attempt for Pitt to tie it up in Utah.

Kicker kicks it true on the first attempt with three seconds left. (Utah called a time out at the last second)

Kicker hooks it left on the second attempt (Utah called a time out again at the last second)

Kicker just puts it inside the left upright on third attempt (Utah doesn't use their third time out.)

We're going to Overtime tied at 24!
 
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and on the first play of overtime...Utah true freshman intercepts Pittsburgh's freshman QB.

Utah can take it with a field goal.
 
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PrezdeJohnson09 said:
and on the first play of overtime...Utah true freshman intercepts Pittsburgh's freshman QB.

Utah can take it with a field goal.
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And ultimately did so.

Utah's visit to Notre Dame at the beginning of November really worries me.
 
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Craig P. said:
And ultimately did so.

Utah's visit to Notre Dame at the beginning of November really worries me.
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Doesn't worry me. I think they may beat us handily, but nothin' I can do about it. :p
 
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bigblue_dl said:
They also referred to the gophers as "a good football team" so they obviously don't know too much about college football.
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That's right...Mighty Minnesota, founding member of the Big Ten, home of 18 conference titles, 6 Nat'l titles, 19 College Football Hall of Famers including Bronko Nagurski, Carl Eller, and 1941 Heisman Trophy winner Bruce Smith, has been reduced to considering a win on the road vs. Middle Tennessee State an upset.
 
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