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As we've all been saying on here all year long... the B1G has better top teams than the Big 12, but also has worse teams at the bottom than the Big 12 also.
And in the B1G, you don't have to play every team twice which also helps those teams.
And in the B1G, you don't have to play every team twice which also helps those teams.
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I don't know how you can say that when the 8th place big ten team > hottest team in the big 12, and when UC Irvine > big 12 champs
The bottom of the big 10 was very solid
You're so great at picking out one game of a season to determine how good a team is.
So KU is better than Michigan State too, right?
I knew this thread would age poorly for us the second it was posted.
The B12 was a good, competitive conference this year with one team (Tech) with a realistic chance to make any kind of run in the dance. The B10 sucked terribly on the bottom end but had much better top end teams. I don't like it, but it seems pretty cut and dried.
The B12 was a good, competitive conference this year with one team (Tech) with a realistic chance to make any kind of run in the dance. The B10 sucked terribly on the bottom end but had much better top end teams. I don't like it, but it seems pretty cut and dried.
That's what we've always said on here.
So how do you define which is tougher? Iowa only had to play MSU and Purdue once this season for example, but got to play some of the worst teams in their league twice.
Nebraska and Rutgers are both better teams than Iowa too..... well according to SplitIdentity anyway. I'll take that.
Nice fan support Iowa. Lots of empty seats behind Iowa's bench compared to Tennessee's seems most Iowa fans come on CF instead. Nice!
Depending on your scheduling draw the B10 can obviously be much more favorable. See; Hawkeyes, Iowa. The B12 is more competitve 1-10 due to the true round Robin. That's a constant. This year the B10 had better quality at the top and a softer underbelly. How people look at that as far as what conference is tougher is a personal choice.
Obviously not. Upsets happen all the time in sports.
The disparity is clear, and it's not close.
It's easier to have a bunch of top tier teams when your conference is 26 members or whatever the Big 10 has now.
In all honesty, the Big 10 had more elite teams than the Big 12 THIS YEAR. Great for them. I'd still rather play in a conference where I could have the chance to get Illinois, Northwestern, Rutgers, and Nebraska twice and Michigan and Michigan State once, then in the Big 12 where I am guaranteed to play 6 or 7 NCAA tournament teams twice every year.