Around the Big Ten

[Dr. Strangelove]

During the infamous "Leaders & Legends" fiasco...PSU's designated crossover rival was UNL. We do have history with those creeps....

Heh, that's fun trying to remember those divisions and rivals

Nebraska-PSU
Michigan-OSU
Minnesota-Wisconsin
Northwestern-Illinois
MSU-Purdue
Iowa-Indiana

Guessing on those last two cuz I really don't remember.

[Mike]

Wouldn't Indiana-Purdue have been a protected rivalry? I don't remember MSU-Iowa but my memory of that period is hazy at best.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Purdue and Indiana were in the same division with us I thought? Gonna have to look it up now...

[Dr. Strangelove]

Can't find a list of the protected rivalries but yeah, the "Leaders" were OSU, PSU, Wisconsin, Indiana, Purdue, and Illinois

[THE_WIZARD_]

So I'm guessing the legends were the rest?

Great sleuth work.

[WM Wolverine]

Yeah, 9 wins (3 losses) in the B1G or SEC might get you invited to the CFP... Nine-win teams in the B1G/SEC are likely to be favored over 10-win teams in the ACC, Pac 12, Big XII thanks to the tougher strength of schedule.

[lineygoblue]

The no-divisions thing is going to make for an interesting season. You're going to have 16 teams vying for 2 CCG spots. What happens if there is a 3 way tie?

Anyway, the east/west thing just never panned out. West never really got competitive.

[AlabamAlum]

They’ll have tiebreakers.

You’ll see things like, head-to-head, best overall record, highest CFP rank, etc.

[lineygoblue]

Oh, so more controversy, and not less ..

[THE_WIZARD_]

STFU

[Mike]

Head to head will be first tie-breaker, obviously. There will likely be scenarios where the teams didn’t play one another so the CFP poll will factor in at some point.

[CGVT]

Oh, so more controversy, and not less ..

We're going back to "the most representative team"

[lineygoblue]

Yeah. The one where MSU votes with OSU because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" ... and all that.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Politics, wars and CFB make for strange bedfellows...just like DSL and Talent for example...

[AlabamAlum]

It doesn’t really matter. With 12 teams in the CFP, everyone with a pulse gets in.