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New Divisions: ESPN We are in the West of course.

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I think it makes sense to do it this way. Wish we could shift Purdue and add some like (Notre Dame or OU) & (Mizzo or Kansas) to give us a more even 'power/tradition' balance between the 2 divisions. That will never happen though. The sparty swap isn't a bad idea.... We really need one more name team.

 

25 years ago I never would of expected that the tail would be wagging the dog, but TV certainly is.

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What a joke of a division of teams. One is overloaded (EAST) and one is crap (WEST) and don't say football is cyclical. 90% of the teams in the new West Division historically haven't done anything...and Iowa has exactly TWO 9-win seasons under Ferentz despite all the love he gets. And who knows how far Wisky will drop now - that not they were ever truly consistently great. So, good news for Huskers - bad news for fans of football...because the West division should be easy pickens every year for any team that has their act together.

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Gee......East and West Divisions.

 

Too bad it took the egg - heads many million of dollars and innumerable public scoffings to arrive at a descriptive and sensible set of names that any competent 1st grader could have produced right out of the box.

 

Mr. Delaney, one thinks you may be too clever by half.

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Divisions aren't as horrible as they appear at first. MSU has basically reached the peak heights their program is capable of. Penn State will never be Penn State again. Rutgers and Maryland are both atrocious. It's going to be MSU/Mich/OSU in the East for like 90% of the forseeable future.

 

Meanwhile we have it pretty good. The reason that I say we have it pretty good is 1) we are *the team* to beat in our division (although you could make a case for Wisconsin I suppose) and 2) our schedule is a lot more appealing from a rivalry (we get the Badgers every year!) and a travel standpoint.

 

The presence of 4 "big names" in the East make their division look stronger than it really is. While it is definitely stronger than the West, it isn't by any huge margin. After MSU/OSU/Mich, the drop-off is huge. The West is stronger at the middle and bottom, which does even the playing field quite a bit. Most of the teams in our division are pretty far down from what they could be. Nebraska hasn't quite gotten back to where we should be. Iowa is obviously slumping pretty hard but should be an 8-win team every year if Kirk can remember how to coach football. Wisconsin is bordering on powerhouse. Minnesota has a lot going for them, they just need to get rid of seizure crazy abusive madman Kill. Pat Fitzgerald has Northwestern in a solid 8-9 wins a year state.

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