Originally Posted by
BigdaddyQH
Texas has absolutely nothingto do with this. Please do not tell me that you honestly thought that Texas was even considering the Big 10, and vice versa. You read too many gossip columns.
Where the Big 10 will screw itself is by going to 9 conference games. The Big 10 survives on scheduling cupcake non-con schedules. Last year, both Minnesota and Michigan State needed soft non-con schedules to win 6 games and get bowl bids. The Big 10 has 8 bowl tie-ins. By scheduling the extra conference game, there is a good chance that at least one less Big 10 team will not go to a bowl game. Had they done this last season, two may not have gone. That cost those teams, and the Conference money. This was a stupid idea to try and appease all of the morons who think that every Big 10 game is some type of rivalry game.
Everyone is talking about the Ohio State-Michigan game, which is absolutely meaningless now except to people in Ohio and MIchigan, and has been for several years. It is stupid to put these two teams in different conferences just to have the possiblity of these two playing in a Championship Game. The way Michigan is going, they will not be playing in a Championship game for years. The Big 10 did one thing right, and now is immediately back to screwing things up again.