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I will be watching it on HDTV. Fortunately, the Buckeyes will be in Madison, so I can watch both on TV instead of missing the Huskers while in Ohio Stadium.

A highlight reel against a team that has had fewer consensus all-Americans than Northwestern in the last fifteen years and a third as many first-round picks as Boston College has had.

The East West Split does the best to preserve rivalries: The trifecta Iowa-Wisconsin-Minnesota Northwestern-Illinois Future Nebraska Rivalry with Iowa/Wisconsin Purdue-Indiana M*ch*gan-Michigan State Ohio State-M*ch*gan Ohio State-Penn State I also don't think that a historical look at national championships (6 v. 11) means much. As pointed out, Minnesota was a front-runner in the 1940s and early 1950s, but should that count for power now? What about Michigan State in the 50s and 60s? They were one of the best teams in that time period. What about M*ch*gan and Nebraska now? What about Iowa and Wisconsin now? History changes too frequently to base it off of historical success. There are some major players we can easily separate - Nebraska, Ohio State, M*ch*gan, and Penn State is a stretch - but otherwise, things change. If we played the East-West split in 2010, the West division would destroy most of the East division.

I made this map to show how I think the divisions should be split:

I hope this does not happen. I hope they just split the divisions geographically, East and West. Penn State, Michigan State, Ohio State, M*ch*gan, Indiana, Purdue Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota

Slamming the quarterback... lol Next we're going to have "porking the passer".

I see that commercial all of the time on the BTN. It is very cool, except there needs to be more football footage, and perhaps some actual shots of the campus or Lincoln. It is kind of a random milieu of the sports with some student receiving her degree and pointing at the camera.

I like the one on the front page of buckeyeplanet.com

You should have just said "speaking."

Grammar fail.

As in you want that to happen or it is happening and you'd prefer it not to? I do not want approve of this trend.

The Texas schools are the only ones that make sense; to include Texas. I am sure there are many in Austin that would have preferred if their school bolted to the PAC-10, and their sentiment over the next five years is going to determine how the Big 12 survives.

I agree with Husker X. Paraphased, from Epicurus: God is omnipotent, all-powerful, and perfectly good, yes? 1) If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able to, he is not omnipotent 2) If God is not willing to prevent evil, but he is able to, then he is not perfectly good 3) If God is willing to prevent evil and able to prevent evil, then why is there evil in the world?

In a general sense, Government control and regulation and social acquiescence to these ends. The embrace of the marginalization of liberty. In a specific sense, the government's distrust of capitalism and gradual formation of a socialist state.

Rawhide, you've become a Newcastle spokesperson?

Neither do cupcakes, but they still have their place in the world. Spirituality isn't a bad thing, used properly. Then again, neither is a gun. But cupcakes are not mind control and rationalized oppression for billions of people.

I've been to many, many college campuses around the country. Sometimes visiting my cast extended family that are in college, visiting my friends, visiting my parent's schools, and looking at colleges for myself. This is what I have to say about UNL: The campus is very traditional, consistent, and pleasant, but it isn't special or memorable. It's a park on the side of Lincoln basically, which isn't too impressive outside of the Haymarket (which is very cool, but limited). I had a far more favorable impression of Nebraska than Missouri and certainly the state school system here in New York, which is far inferior to UNL (New York is traditionally private-school territory) in almost every way. The thing is, I am not a top football recruit, and the schools Nebraska competes with offer so much. UCLA, USC, Texas, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Michigan, and Florida offer better academics straight off of the bat, if the athlete were so inclined. Nebraska is still impressive by public school standards, but it just so happens that these other schools are slightly (to extensively in some cases) more impressive. Then you get to environment. Los Angeles is Los Angeles no matter where you are in it (My step sister goes to USC, and the "ghetto" is a minor inconvenience). There are endless things to do and the entertainment life attracts impressionable young males. Combine that with the weather, great academics, and beautiful campuses... Nebraska doesn't have a chance. Or, Austin, TX. It's a beautiful city. It's warm. Texas is slightly more impressive academically than Nebraska. The school has lots of money and the state has far more opportunities outside of football (employment wise and entertainment wise) than Nebraska. Ohio State is a cold Big Ten school, but it has an academic reputation more solid than UNL's, it is located in a very economically diverse city that has lots of culture and things to do, and has the largest athletic budget in the country. The campus, while no Michigan State or Wisconsin (my two personal favorites in the country) makes UNL seem humble by comparison. Most of the SEC is probably academically inferior to UNL and have negligibly similar athletic operations. Most of these schools are also located in humble settings with very homogeneous culture, but what do they have going for them? It is warm. Athletes like warm whether. More time training outdoors. More hot coeds in bikinis riding in Jeep wranglers with kegs partying outside in the hot south where nobody gives a damn. At UNL, in the cold socially conservative state of Nebraska, the partying is probably more mundane and controlled, and more people probably hole up in the dorms on the cold winter days.

I liked that. Thank you for sharing.

Humidity. Humidity and subways. Wishing I had the resources to take a nice taxi ride everywhere like they do on TV.

What kind of ring does your spouse have? I do agree that it seemed fake though.

What about Indiana? Those are really similar to Wisconsin's.

Last year it definitely was Ohio State. Rose Bowl win, Sweet Sixteen. No other team even came close.

So, you folks understand my frustration... If only bleacherreport had half of the journalistic responsibility that I do. How come nobody has ever brought this up? EDIT: Weird, double post that only posted half...

So, you folks understand my frustration...

I am writing an article and I want to cite the NCAA's policy where it says that if a conference has 12 members, then it must be split into at least 2 divisions, as people have commonly said is an NCAA policy. I can't find this statute anywhere in the NCAA Division I manual. Nowhere. The only place I can find information is Wikipedia, which says "may split" and implies it is optional, and the source for that note is some random guy's blog, so that isn't even accurate or a credible source. So I'm starting to think that this rule doesn't exist, but everyone insists that it does. Does anyone know where I can find the source of this idea?