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No one is going to be playing Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Washington, Penn State, USC in a single year. Every team is going to be played 2, 3, 4 of those teams.Well, I will say, we're back to the days where the team that just happens to get the easiest schedule in the B10 (missing out on whatever great teams there are that year) has good shot at backing into teh title game (ala the B10 west). There's so many teams in the conference now, there's a good shot that a team could miss out on playing the 2-3 best teams in the conference any given year.
Example: Ohio State next year plays Michigan at home, and Oregon/Penn State away. They miss Washington, UCLA and USC. Depending on how any given year plays out, teams are going to scoot into that game like they used to "share" titles prior to the divisions.
What removing the divisions does is -- it eliminates teams like Iowa this year, Purdue last year, Iowa the year before, etc. from going to the CCG, just because they play in the division without any of the top teams in the B1G.
On top of those teams having to deal with PSU, OSU, UM, MSU -- they have to also get by Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA.
My guess is -- over the next decade -- the B1G CCG will be played by 2 of these 8 teams. And honestly, I think you could remove MSU and UCLA and almost all them will be played by 2 of these 6 teams.