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ESPN.com's Andy Katz is first with official confirmation that Ohio State and Michigan will be in separate divisions in the newly-aligned Big Ten. The divisions will be as follows:

Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Northwestern and Minnesota

Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana and Illinois

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/Rep ... sions.html

Seems pretty balanced to me.

OSU=Michigan

Penn St=Nebraska

Wisconsin=Iowa

Does look balanced.

I assume each team will keep one inter-division "rival" - like OSU-Michigan, Ill-NW

dbackjon wrote:Does look balanced.

I assume each team will keep one inter-division "rival" - like OSU-Michigan, Ill-NW

Not sure of any rivals past that though.

I'm not saying this is inaccurate, but the official announcement doesn't happen until this evening. Until then, you have only speculation.

89Hen wrote:

dbackjon wrote:Does look balanced.

I assume each team will keep one inter-division "rival" - like OSU-Michigan, Ill-NW

Not sure of any rivals past that though.

I was just watching CSN-Philly and they said that Penn State's annual rival game will be Nebraska.

Each team has one "protected" rival that will be played every year (Michigan/OSU, Iowa/Purdue [what the hell, I didn't realize that was that big of a rivalry], Nebraska/Penn State, Wisconsin/Minnesota, Northwestern/Illinois, and what not.), and then the school will play the 5 other teams in their division. Along with those 6 every year there will be 2 rotating games.

So for example Michigan's schedule the next two years looks something like this

October 1 Minnesota
October 8 @ Northwestern
October 15 @ Michigan State
October 29 Purdue *
November 5 @ Iowa
November 12 @ Illinois *
November 19 Nebraska
November 26 Ohio State **

* cross over games. 2 year rotation. UM will play these teams in 2011 and 2012, then these teams will drop off of the schedule for 2 other teams in the other division
** is protected rival

Penn State and Nebraska each year will be great. Two of the sports most traditional and cleanest programs will build a great rivalry I suspect.