I think I was right that the Big Ten was going to screw up the divisions. Here they are, as announced yesterday:
Division 1
MSU
UM
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Division 2
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Wisconsin
UPDATE: My first impression of this was negative, and after dwelling on it all it's still negative. Swap MSU and UM with Wisconsin and Illinois and you have two perfect divisions. As it stands now, both Michigan teams are at least 300 miles away from every other team in the division. And I hate that MSU is in a division with Nebraska. Hate it. At least MSU plays OSU and Wisconsin in 2011 and 2012, so they're maintaining some games I really like to see. But no Penn State. This could have been much better.
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Not sure how the managed to put MSU and UoM with all the western teams, other then to separate OSU from UoM for a championship game. Don't care for the idea, its screws up their rivalry, plus the MSU/PSU rivalry, plus the geography is all wrong. Obviously some rivalries will be screwed by the divisions no matter what, bu this does not seem like the best way.
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