(07-31-2018 06:46 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  

(07-31-2018 04:59 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(07-31-2018 01:34 AM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  Another big merger idea that I just thought up:

Classic Big Ten

Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Purdue
Indiana
Illinois
Northwestern

New Big Ten

Penn State
Rutgers
Maryland
Nebraska
Colorado
Arizona
UCLA
Cal
Oregon
Washington


8 games in division; 11 games in conference; 1 pre-season game against an FCS team; 1 OOC game to be played against a nearby FBS program (iow, the rivalry game would be covered)


Stanford, USC, Utah and Arizona State would be major independents with scheduling agreements w/ Big Ten or ACC


Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid...608242&z=5

Nebraska might be happy with that, but I don't think Penn State, Maryland or Rutgers would be.

Nice idea in theory. One problem though......

Minneapolis to Columbus - 11 1/2 hours, 760 miles (Longest distance)

Piscataway to Seattle - 42 hours, 2860 miles (Longest distance)

I'm gonna guess the members of the New B1G would balk at this arrangement.

The only way to make something like that work would be 4 pods of 5 schools, have each pod winner play to determine who goes to the ship.

Rutgers
Maryland
PSU
OSU
IU

Michigan
MSU
Purdue
NW
IL

Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Colorado

Arizona
UCLA
Cal
Oregon
Washington


Something similar to that.