Mavric Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Every year the story is the East is soooo much stronger. Every year this turns out to not really be the case. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 2014 - Divisions tied 7-7 East Winners:Michigan State over Nebraska 27-22Michigan State over Purdue 45-31Ohio State over Illinois 55-14Ohio State over Minnesota 31-24Michigan over Northwestern 10-9Maryland over Iowa 38-31 Indiana over Purdue 23-16West Winners:Northwestern over Penn State 29-6Minnesota over Michigan 30-14Iowa over Indiana 45-29Nebraska over Rutgers 42-24Wisconsin over Maryland 52-7Wisconsin over Rutgers 37-0Illinois over Penn State 16-14 1 Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 2015 - Divisions tied 7-7 East Winners: Penn State 39, Illinois 0 Michigan 29, Minnesota 26 Ohio State, 28, Minnesota 14 Michigan 38, Northwestern 0 Michigan State 24, Purdue 21 Ohio State 28, Illinois 3 Indiana 54, Purdue 36 West Winners: Nebraska 39, Michigan State 38 Iowa 31, Maryland 15 Iowa 35, Indiana 27 Wisconsin 31, Maryland 24 Wisconsin 48, Rutgers 10 Northwestern 23, Penn State 21 Nebraska 31, Rutgers 14 1 Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 Matchups. You mean like when the fourth place team in the west beat the east champion last year? Quote Link to comment
Undone Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Mavric, do you think it might be more of a case of people being biased towards which division has the most number of ranked teams? Maybe the bottom rung teams in the east are significantly worse than the bottom rung teams in the west? Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 That could be. A couple East teams right at the top followed by several West teams in the upper/middle and a couple East teams at the bottom. I don't know that all that even means the West is even with the east. But after three straight years of at least holding their own, I don't think the East is nearly as much better as most people try to make it out to be. Quote Link to comment
AFhusker Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 It is the traditonal teams in Mechicken and Ohio State with their Head Coaches who are both loved by the media that pushes that narriative. Until the two best programs in the West in Nebraska and Wisconsin start beating those two teams more often and become relevant as in top 10 level, that perception will still be pushed by the media. The thing is that Mechiken hasn't accomplished anything yet, their ranking as of now is all part of the Harbaugh hype. Their biggest wins are vs Wisconsin and Colorado when they lost their starting QB while being up big on UM. They are 7-0 and have played ONE road game and that was Rutgers. So while we rightfully catch crap by the media for our easy schedule so far, UM's hasn't been any harder and may be easier after next week when they play a surprisingly terrible MSU team in East Lansing while we go to Camp Randal and play Wisconsin. Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 ^ UM's has absolutely been harder (Colorado, Penn State and Wisconsin all top any team we've played thus far), and they've played about 800x better than us throughout it. The east is top-heavy is all. 2 Quote Link to comment
nic Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 The good news is we get to play the games. And there are a lot of games to go. Quote Link to comment
Michiganball Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 It is the traditonal teams in Mechicken and Ohio State with their Head Coaches who are both loved by the media that pushes that narriative. Until the two best programs in the West in Nebraska and Wisconsin start beating those two teams more often and become relevant as in top 10 level, that perception will still be pushed by the media. The thing is that Mechiken hasn't accomplished anything yet, their ranking as of now is all part of the Harbaugh hype. Their biggest wins are vs Wisconsin and Colorado when they lost their starting QB while being up big on UM. They are 7-0 and have played ONE road game and that was Rutgers. So while we rightfully catch crap by the media for our easy schedule so far, UM's hasn't been any harder and may be easier after next week when they play a surprisingly terrible MSU team in East Lansing while we go to Camp Randal and play Wisconsin. I'm very cautious about praising UM but cant agree with ya there, UM games had solid performances with a piranha like defense, the team has outright dominated virtually all quarters they played as well as most the phases of the games. Colorado QB was not "lost" btw, he was knocked out, hit and hit multiple times and when injured, hit again and then walked off the field. Quote Link to comment
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