Can someone explain to me...
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From my understanding when they switched divisions Delaney looked at Winning percentage from the previous years at the time and matched up everyone according..
Nebraska/ Ohio St
Wisconsin/ Michigan
Iowa/ Penn St
Northwestern/ Michigan St
Minnesota/ Maryland
Illini/ Rutgers
Protected rivalry Purdue / Indiana
Going to switch in 2022 and what they did was draw teams out of a hat..
Nebraska landed Michigan
Wisconsin landed Ohio St
Iowa landed Rutgers
Nebraska/ Ohio St
Wisconsin/ Michigan
Iowa/ Penn St
Northwestern/ Michigan St
Minnesota/ Maryland
Illini/ Rutgers
Protected rivalry Purdue / Indiana
Going to switch in 2022 and what they did was draw teams out of a hat..
Nebraska landed Michigan
Wisconsin landed Ohio St
Iowa landed Rutgers
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2022.
Just so happens Nebraska plays Michigan and Ohio St at home in 2021 along with playing at Norman against OU...
I love Nebraska just as much as anyone on here but to say that we have a better football tradition than Michigan is an overstatement. Notre Dame, Michigan and Bama have arguably the most success in the history of college football. Oklahoma, OSU, Nebraska, USC and Texas are probably the next tier after that. In joining the BIG, Nebraska may have left behind Oklahoma and Texas, but Michigan and Ohio State were probably a trade up. Further, penn state, MSU, Iowa and Wiscy are a step up above Colorado, A&M, etc ...
The BIG is the real deal.
I'm of the opinion that only divisional games should count towards choosing division champs.
You don’t know crap about Oklahoma... They have more 10+ winning seasons( 39)more than Alabama(37),Notre Dame, Michigan(29), Ohio St, USC(27) and Nebraska(27)..The one’s in ( ) are the top 5 in country.. and had won more games than anyone since 1946.
I’m with you on this one. I want to play PSU and Michigan more. I can’t even remember the last time we played PSU and I’m still annoyed we finally played Michigan and I had to be at their house and now we play them again for a bit. Since it was a home and a home set up...that Michigan game last year should have been a neutral setting. Not at Michigan. We have played at Michigan 3 times and played Michigan in Lincoln ONCE. Last year game should have been a Lincoln (home) game to make it even. It made no sense at all why we had to go to Ann Habor AGAIN.
Then why play crossover games at all?
The same thing has happened when we plays PSU last. We have had to play at State College the last two meetings as well. Why are these teams getting all these home games against us? We Have beaten PSU 3-1 and the Michigan before last years game we where on a 2-1 run against them.
Played at PSU 3 times and played at Lincoln ONCE.
Played at Michigan 3 times and played at Lincoln ONCE.
Its BS.
Played at PSU 3 times and played at Lincoln ONCE.
Played at Michigan 3 times and played at Lincoln ONCE.
Its BS.
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Only way to combat this is to start winning which will lead to increased recruiting results. And so on... I know, easier said than done.
I’ve mentioned this many of times both haven’t been back in Lincoln since 2012..
Trying to convince my best friend out here to come to that game. He is a huge PSU fan. Never been to LincolnAbout time
If he loves college football, he should plan on it..
Hell I can’t wait too go to Boulder and they have a lot of questionable nice fans.Winking
it's strange that ones want to complicate it all by counting the randomly scheduled cross-over games. The other games will still count towards post season rewards.
In my opinion, crossover games shouldnt count towards your division title. Only games that are played in your division should matter when it comes to that. Maybe have them as a 3rd or 4th tiebreaker but thats it.
Pure delusion with the Michigan fantasy. I guess if you consider whipping high school teams 70 and 80 years ago, the yes. Michigan is the king of being GOOD, not great.
I can't wait for the day when other fans complain about having to play us. Totally understand what you're saying though. Not very even.
That's why I've always said division standings should be based upon your record within your division. W/L in the BIG isn't really fair
Right and I get that. But how wouldn’t PSU vs Huskers or Michigan vs Huskers not bring in viewers or money. OSU, Michigan, PSU and the Huskers are all top tier football schools and 3 of those are blue bloods (PSU is the only one that isn’t but they aren’t that far off). You’d think just as long as we play one of those schools it would be good. Like most, I love playing the top team but right now, we have played OSU so dam much I’d rather see PSU or Michigan on the schedule instead. In no way am I saying we should be playing Maryland (played ONCE since joined the BIG 10) or Indiana (played ONCE I believe) or other lower tier teams like that. Just the other big boys in the BIG 10.
Nope but they are literally missing out by one or two spots. There has always been 8 teams and PSU hits around number 9-10 area.
Outside being Bull headed, I don’t see how you don’t. Your response was about why we play OSU so much wasn’t it?? And I was saying how could it be that much different playing PSU or Michigan compared to OSU with money, history and people liking it. Unless you was talking about something completely different then the rest of us was talking about?!?!
I think anything before ww2 is like a completely different game so I judge teams mostly on what's happened after that. Oklahoma, Alabama, and Ohio State have been the most dominant teams since then. Teams like Michigan and Notre Dame had most of their success before the 1950's, so I think that should be discounted at least a little bit.
Have you looked at the 2024 schedule? At Michigan, Ohio State, at Penn State, Illinois, at Wisconsin, Purdue, at Iowa. That’s our October/November schedule that year. Our non conference has sCUm coming to Lincoln. Hope Frost is hitting on all cylinders by then because we’re going to need to play at a high level that season.
Bring on effing Oklahoma! I wish they were our end of the season rival match up. How contrived is this Iowa rivalry? Colorado was bad enough with their urine bombs. What does Iowa bring? Sea of pee?
Ya what stands out more for me is while we are playing Michigan at Penn St on the road and have Ohio St at home, Delaney gives Iowa,at Indiana and Maryland with their 4 year protected game with Rutgers..
I don’t understand why they at least couldn’t have had one of those 3 be Michigan St, Ohio St, Michigan or Penn St.. Another thing is Wisconsin also has to play Michigan, Penn St and Ohio St..
This another reason why I hate playing nine conference games..
Does it piss you off then when a college football fan says they don’t really regard the success we had in the 70s through the 90s, because the game has changed? These fans arbitrarily cut off the period for defining success to fit their narrative. These fans might say something like, “Scholarship distributions have changed and TV exposure has changed. Nebraska no longer has some built in advantages that it used to enjoy. In fact, Nebraska now is at a disadvantage because it doesn’t have a fertile recruiting ground within close proximity and it can’t compete to pull players from talent beds where it used to because of the success of programs that used to be inferior. Nebraska’s days as a blue blood college football program are behind them.” These same fans would put programs like Clemson, Florida, Oregon, Wisconsin, LSU, etc ... ahead of Nebraska in terms of historical significance.
I would take great exception to removing Nebraska from the top of the list of historically significant teams. The point of this retort is that by stating Michigan and Notre Dame look too far to the past to define their success and place in college football history is an argument that is just as easily, and becoming more common with each 4-8 season, applied by other fans to claim Nebraska no longer has a seat at the table for the greatest programs in college football.
LOL Nebraska is the other "big dog" with OSU in the Big Ten. Please do not become as delusional as Penn State fans.
Also, there has to be a crossover game the last week of the regular season. Given the way divisions are split, this one makes the most sense.
There were "protected" crossovers from when Nebraska joined until the league expanded to 14 teams. Then the conference went to a 5-year arrangement (might be 4 or 6, can't remember exactly). We're in the middle of that with Ohio State, soon it'll be Michigan, then who knows.Is there actually a protected cross over or is this just opinion?
Because if I remember right, when we first entered wasn't Penn State our crossover? Then when we added teams those got thrown 8n the gutter?
I don't remember anything from the Big 10 regarding Ohio State being our crossover.
It isnt that hard to have Michigan on the schedule more often, even if they are playing wisconsin