Yes

There could be logistical reasons supporting a return to two divisions. The old B1G West had no blue bloods.Wisconsin and Iowa dominated the west,but neither one could stand up to Michigan,Ohio State,or Penn State. The adoption of Oregon,USC,and Washington to the B1G has added conference winning programs that would give a new 9 school B1G West a credable chance at winning the B1G championship while also reducing travel costs to and from the west coast. USC,Oregon, and Washington all have reputations as blue blood programs whose alums expect to compete for championships. NEW B1G West Oregon, Washington,USC,UCLA, Nebraska,Iowa, Minnesota,Wisconsin, and Northwestern. New B1G East Michigan,Ohio State,Penn State,Michigan State,Rutgers,Maryland,Indiana,Purdue, Indiana, Illinois. Schedule would be 10 conference games with 8 division games followed by 2 out of division games which means each division plays the out of division schools every 4 to 5 years,while protecting most of the biggest rivalries in the overall conference. Sure the Little Brown Jug game between my Gophers and Michigan would become a twice in a decade thing,but Minnesota hasn't been competative against Michigan the last decade anyway. That leaves two FSC games as tune up games and eliminates an out of conference power 5 game. Since multiple B1G and SEC schools are going to get playoff spots in the expanded playoffs, wouldn't it be better if we limit or eliminate regular season matchups among Power 4 schools?

I agree with you, James. One of the major reasons for bringing in all these high power teams was to have them play each other more often to realize the media value of having Brand vs Brand. By sequestering teams into 10 team divisions, you lose the flexibility of arranging those high value matchups more often, lowering the overall value of the conference's media potential. It seems like with this plan, there are hardly any cross divisional matchups at all. I don't want to see all the former Pac teams play each other all the time. We've seen that for a century already and it gets old. Let's arrange more of these big brand matchups as often as possible. That's what the public wants to see.

@@TheLAGopher First of all, I don't care about travel costs. At least not for football. The eastern teams only travel west once a year anyway. If they instituted divisions for all other sports, I'd be all for it. For football, besides rivalry games, leave it wide open! Second, I would love to have more B1G/SEC in season matchups. There should be a battle weekend where they matchup all or most of the teams from the two conferences. That would be a blast! Alabama/Michigan. LSU/Penn St. Oregon/Tennessee. Also, it would keep USC from backing out of those games. The prime games could be played neutral field. It would be like having mid season bowl games. The teams that don't match up could even play against the Allstate 12 or the Both Coasts Conference teams. Third, I like the idea of having the two best teams play in the championship at the end of the year. I want to see it happen for at least 10 years before they try to go back to divisions again

@@slten12 You are preaching to the choir!

Agree. Conferences are archaic and serve no purpose for football. I appreciate the work the creator put into this video, but the B1G isn’t going back to divisions. It’s self limiting and offers no substantive value. Even the creator admits there is imbalance.

No way that happens for a number of reasons also very boring

There’s no chance of that bc games like Iowa vs Iowa st. Or Oregon vs Oregon state. Other teams r rivals with notre dame. Nebraska vs Colorado. USC and ucla probably would wanna play some former PAC12 schools as well.

If they go to divisions I bet they go to 4 5 team divisions..that way you can mix it up The schedule where each would play

That will happen once they form a super league

Only if the SEC is forced to also.

Boooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Agreed Booooooooo!

Cant wait!

Nah let them stay in the south

This is the way. I'd add FSU & UNC (fu*k ND). It sets up nicely...... East FSU-UNC-PSU-Mary-RU Mideast UM-OSU-MSU--PU-IU Midwest NW-Ill-UW-Minn-Iowa West UN-OU-UW-UCLA-USC Nebraska would have to schedule non-conference games with Iowa to keep the rivalry.

agree! been saying this. Pod system/four 5-team divisions way better than two 10 team divisions. More opportunities to play the other teams in the conference regularly.

The problem with that is that the two losers of the conference semifinal playoff, would have played one less conference game than the two teams that won and move on to play in the conference championship game. Meaning you just screwed over your 3rd/4th place teams from effectively getting a chance at the 12 team CFP. Unless they played each other the following weekend as well, before the conference championship game for 3rd place in a game that exactly 0 people would watch outside those two fanbases lol

@@TheLwaller09 ppl would watch at worst, it'd be just as televisible as any conference regular season game. It wouldnt need to be marketed as 3rd place. And if anything, in a strong conf season, playing for 3rd in B1G would probably be considered a play-in for the playoff.

Rotating pods by historical strength. Keep historical rivalries. 10 conference games. Go to 24: FSU, Miami, UNC, Clemson (or whoever UNC prefers of Clemson, Virginia or Duke). Then ND + Stanford. Never expand again. Hold B1G championship in Dallas or Houston for recruiting help and to be unbiased. Let’s go!😅

Which Indiana was becoming somewhat respectability pre Covid

Decent model, but leaves open the issue of frequent ties for championship game appearance with no head to head.

@MarkRogersVOCFB with 20+ teams, it's going to happen regardless. Tiebreakers would be confrence wins, then the strength of the schedule wins. It happens already. Works even with 10 confrence games and 24 teams. Same set up. Play everyone every three years.

I have a feeling that the last domino to fall in landing Notre Dame is taking Stanford. The B1G would have all of the Irish's main rivals locked up. Personally, I think Notre Dame would play USC, Stanford, Purdue and Michigan State. ND/MSU has been played a lot more than ND/UM.

Why would Tier 2 ACC flight risks go to the Tier 2 BIG12?

Wisconsin was getting easy rides the last few years. Not gonna happen in the new big10 west division. It's now gonna be either oregon or usc going to the conference championship games every years

I 100% agree with no divisions. However, look at some of the schedules this year. There is a very real chance a team like Rutgers or Iowa makes the B1G CCG. It's not because they are great, it's because they have very soft schedules. There is no way around the soft schedules.

@@bullyear1973 HUH USC....not a great take. Reggie Bush is now on Fox not playing football. USC has not been relevant in years. Yet you slam Wisconsin, far better than USC in recent years. Wisconsin would still be VERY completive in the "new" Big Ten West.

So they would never play each other? 😂 how do you imagine that's going to go over with those tv partners that just unloaded the Brinks trucks for that shiny new media rights deal?

@@TheLwaller09 I wouldn't say never. The schedule this year has Michigan playing OSU but not PSU. This would change from year to year.

As built on the existing SEC and B1G, only 2 ~24 team P2s are needed. The realignment is about contraction via consolidation. There is no longer a feasible path to a peer P3.

The same Fantasyland?

20 teams, 4 pods of 5, then have a 4 team conference playoff.

@@hummushero9428 I almost did the same but that would greatly disadvantage the conference champ and runner up with one less week of rest and preparation than the rest of the field

When it comes to large unwieldy conference schedules, I think the Big Ten are already on the right track now with the flex schedule with only necessary protected rivalries. Divisions are not necessary and they can cause unfair, unbalanced schedules. Penn State was only the 3rd best program in the B1G East, but if you put them in the B1G West, they might have won the division every year.

@@smh0825 well yeah it would only be suitable if each major conference adopted the model, and perhaps played a third place game, and also probably scrapped one Non-con game.

@@DefaultModeNetworkWe need the Golden Bears vs the Golden Gophers!!!🙂

Yes please

I’d like to give it back to you.

I’ve done that video. Thanks Gregory.

@@MarkRogersVOCFB I probably subconsciously picked up that idea from you!

The regular season scheduling flexibility is off the charts better with no conf champ game. Do it maybe in a context of 4 divisions, playoff expansion to 16 teams, no conf champ game and then automatic bid to 2 or 3 division winners.

Automatically avoids the possibility of teams playing each other 3 times in a season.

If no divisions then the same 2 or 3 automatic bids applies.

~0% chance

Clown world, fully agree.

MICHIGAN is predominantly winning now not Ohio State. Fool.

Request denied.

@@dantesinfernopurgatory7826the networks are about bringing the best brands to the league, so it doesn’t make any sense to have multiple schools from states like Indiana and Illinois taking up real estate. Eventually some are going to have to go

What would they call the NW, IU, Ill, Rut, MD, Pur, Vandy conference? 🤡

@@EnzoMoresi-mj8bc unwatchable

The way those elitist four corners Pac schools (CU, UU, UA & ASU) look down on the rest of the Big 12 is how the Big Ten look down the four corners as scrubs. The Big Ten wants to bring in exceptional schools that would compete at the top of the Big Ten, athletically and academically, like Washington. They don't want to bring in scrub four corners schools that will compete at the bottom half of the Big Ten, academically and in terms of viewership.

Well aren't we special

Sounds like a manure out the SJ valley : CALfurd

get rid of maryland and rutgers and add cal and stanford

@@EnzoMoresi-mj8bc its too expensive to produce manure in California lol

@@robert5755 Nah. Keep that California manure out west where they belong.

@@robert5755 - agreed. We never needed those two to recruit east anyway.

For what purpose an even larger and wider Tier 2 BIG12?