Should the Big Ten ditch divisions? And the Ohio State-Oregon ranking debate

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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It's the big Thursday episode on Buckeye Talk as Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means speak words into microphones. Should the Big Ten change its division structure? Should the divisions be shuffled? Should they change every year and be random? Should divisions be eliminated in favor of all 14 teams being grouped together with a title game of the top two finishers? And if things change, do the Buckeyes need to play Michigan and Penn State every year? That's the first hour, spurred by Penn State coach James Franklin wanting the league to talk about division changes. Then the guys finish with some more rapid fire questions, including an Oregon-Ohio State debate with the first playoff rankings out next week. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:26.4	Welcome back to the big Thursday book I talk, Doug Laymarie,
0:28.9	safe to bear, Steven, means we're going to start something new on this podcast with some of
0:33.7	the surveys we do with tech subscribers. I'd like to call it is the premise of this two-hour
0:40.4	podcast, Boring and Stupid. So I asked nine questions of the tech subscribers. The last question
0:47.5	I asked, this is a podcast potentially, if we decide it's not Boring and Stupid, about whether
0:53.6	the big 10 should change its division structure, get ready, if it's the division structure, go to
0:58.2	just 14 teams altogether, take the two best teams for a conference championship, should they rearrange
1:04.1	them? What should they do? Spurt a little bit by James Franklin talking about it earlier this month,
1:10.0	and then I look back and James Franklin talks about this actually almost every year. It's, and we know
1:15.9	why and we'll get into that. But the question I asked tech subscribers, because this is an Ohio State
1:20.1	podcast. In the end, does Ohio State's division in the big 10, or if the big 10 goes to no divisions,
1:26.5	or whatever, matter to you, if the 14 teams in the big 10 stay the same. Like, does it matter?
1:33.6	The choices were, yes, it matters. The particulars affect the schedule and they matter.
1:38.4	Or, no, I don't care. Let the book eyes play whatever big 10 teams they play, right? People,
1:44.7	I think, you know, Nathan, I think they do like to talk about, oh, should Notre Dame join the big 10,
1:49.6	oh, should USC join the big 10? If we're not talking about adding, or like should we kick out
1:55.6	Rutgers, or subtracting, we're just talking about rearranging. You're not buying a new house.
2:02.5	You're not building an addition. You're not getting out this sledgehammer and tearing down walls.
2:07.7	The people on the home improvement shows love to take out the sledgehammers and tear down walls.
2:13.9	I bet you you've taken out a sledgehammer and torn down a wall in a home in your life, Nathan
2:17.9	Baird. That's something, it sounds like something you would do. It sounds like something I would love
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