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Mr. Bucknuts on how to get a true conference champion:
I like it. This is a superior to what they have now, and superior to adding a 12th team and a conference championship game. (I despise conference championship games.) Ohio State doesn't need to be playing Bowling Green and Youngtstown State anyway.
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http://ohiostate.scout.com/2/579072.htmlWell, somebody has to say what needs to be said and I nominate myself – once again. What needs to be said? The rotation of teams in the Big Ten coming on and off the schedule is asinine. Or ass-in-ten, as this case may be. Some years we play Wisconsin, some years Illinois. Or maybe Purdue comes back around or, well…you get the picture. And it’s not a pretty picture. Especially when two teams could tie for the championship of the conference, yet not get the opportunity to play each other. It’s one thing to forego a conference championship game, it’s another thing to select your champion based on some administrative wonk’s picking and choosing.
How to solve the issue. Simple. Have the Big Ten go back to being – ten. Everyone will play three out-of-conference games and then everyone will play nine conference games, which include (surprise!) everyone. How to get there? Eliminate one school from the conference and I nominate: Northwestern.
Someone has to go, just like it made so much sense at the time to add Penn State. Northwestern doesn’t “fit” with the academic profile or the state-oriented profile of the rest of the conference. And we really need to get the Big Ten back to Ten.
I like it. This is a superior to what they have now, and superior to adding a 12th team and a conference championship game. (I despise conference championship games.) Ohio State doesn't need to be playing Bowling Green and Youngtstown State anyway.
Thoughts?