2015 & 2016 Big Ten Scheds Released Monday at 9a

[MisterLucky]

Does our rivalry with Purdue have some forgotten object we can base the game on? I have an old crock in my garage we can paint up and play for. Or maybe we could get the corn growers to donate their first American Gothic effort to the big game. I hear "gothic" is hot with all the kids these days.

[hogeye]

False.

East champion would likely be OSU/UM/PSU 9 of 10 years.
West champion would likely be UW/NEB/IA most years.

My opinion that makes a pretty good championship game every year.

I think UM and PSU get far too much credit than they deserve. Look back at the last 10 years, I'd take UM and PSU on my schedule any day over UW and NEB. OSU is the only true powerhouse in our league.

No, it's not false. Statistically speaking the East would have four of the top six winning programs. 3 teams with 800 wins versus 1, which is Nebraska, from the West.

I know that's your opinion, and you're welcome to it, but it doesn't invalidate my response.

[JHHawk]

According to the Iowa Athletic Dept, release on schedule,the Iowa and Nebraska athletic directors will meet after the season to determine if the Iowa-Neb game will continue to be played on Black Friday or moved to saturday.

I hope it stays on Black Friday, but with a 2:30 kickoff. On saturday it will get obscured by the Michigan/OSU and PSU/Wis games....I like watching all those games and so if I attend Iowa/Neb on Friday,I can still catch those other games....Keep it special,please, Osborne and Barta!

[racerhawk]

I miss playing Becky Badger, but I think the divisions have been set up pretty well. I didn't always feel that way.

When Michigan was (very briefly) down, we all wondered why the BoneG felt that it was so important to separate Michigan and Ohio State.

I think we'll see that logic pretty clearly in the next five years. Michigan and tOSU look like they will be very, very strong (just like they have been historically) and that they may often be playing each other for the championship. I think that Iowa's division is tougher right now (with MSU, Nebby, Mich, and NW), but I think this evens a bit if PSU can progress. OSU and Wisky will of course be strong. Purdon't is a question mark moving forward. Illinois has to resurrect itself...again.

If Michigan and fOSU are both recruiting nationally at a top-5 level (as they did this year), and everyone else in the BoneG is around 40th, I can see Mich and fOSU playing each other in the championship game a lot.

[PJHawk]

In 2013 the BADgers will have the easiest schedule in the history of the Big Ten conference:

at OSU
NW
at Ill
PU
at Iowa
Ind
at MN
PSU

[ssckelley]

I am just so relieved we kept our protected rival, Purdue, on our schedule every year.

[Cosity82]

In 2013 the BADgers will have the easiest schedule in the history of the Big Ten conference:

at OSU
NW
at Ill
PU
at Iowa
Ind
at MN
PSU

Hopefully that just means that if they win their division they will be woefully unprepared for the B1G title game. Nebby has what looks to be a couple of pretty soft schedules coming up too. These next two years will be pretty tough for Iowa but 2014 and 15 are looking good IMO.

[goods10]

Hopefully that just means that if they win their division they will be woefully unprepared for the B1G title game. Nebby has what looks to be a couple of pretty soft schedules coming up too. These next two years will be pretty tough for Iowa but 2014 and 15 are looking good IMO.

Iowa's 2013 schedule is pretty brutal.

[Mooch]

hawks open b10 play on the road again.....shocker

[Mooch]

my apologies. i read it wrong

[UncleHawk]

Not really. 2 big rivalries in Mich/OSU and Minny/Wisky were protected. I dont think a lot of people consider Illinois/Northwestern a huge rivalry, but they are both from the same state so it makes sense.

Penn State and Nebraska arent rivlas and were pitted against each other strictly because of the history of the 2 schools.

PSU was a cross-division rivalry that we should have had as permanent because of how it had developed over the Fry/Ferentz years. Instead, B1G decided to create one artificially between PSU and Neblets.

[Cover3]

I think it was error to separate UM and OSU for the same reason a poster above thought doing so was smart. That protected regular-season rivalry at the end of the season would be EPIC if it was for a berth in the title game to the other one's exclusion. If they've both wrapped up their division titles, the marquee of the first matchup will be lacking.

[MoseSchrute]

Hopefully that just means that if they win their division they will be woefully unprepared for the B1G title game. Nebby has what looks to be a couple of pretty soft schedules coming up too. These next two years will be pretty tough for Iowa but 2014 and 15 are looking good IMO.

From '13 to '16 Iowa misses out on Indiana. MSU misses out on Wisconsin. Nebraska misses out on Ohio State for four years. Northwestern misses Penn State. Minnesota misses Illinois. Michigan misses Purdue.

That is basically a four year schedule advantage for everyone else in our division.

[JHHawk]

So, the prospect of a strong Mich and OSU playing in back to back games one week apart at the end of the season is a happy one?....get out.

That would totally suck the life out of The Game if it happened more than once a generation. They should have been together in the eastern division,and then it would never happen.

[Section136]

PSU was a cross-division rivalry that we should have had as permanent because of how it had developed over the Fry/Ferentz years. Instead, B1G decided to create one artificially between PSU and Neblets.

Iowa winning a majority of the games against PSU over the last 10-15 years does not make a rivalry either.

We had one shot to get a "natural rivalry" in the cross division matchups and that was Wisconsin. It didnt happen, time for everybody to get over it.