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I want for THE OHIO STATE to become an independent!! I brought it up on more than few occastions to fellow fans and my opinion got mixed reviews. Move to another conference and carry more weak teams who fan bases who at the first sign of trouble (tat gate) want you to get the smu death penalty I'll pass. GO BUCKS!!

I would accept a move, but would prefer to stay in the Big 10. I would love to play another high profile out of conference game like Alabama, Florida, or LSU each year though. I think it would help to recruit the south if kids knew we would be playing a game in their area. I like the rivalries we have and would love to see Notre Dame enter the Big 10, but when they enter a conference they will probably enter the ACC, because they wouldn't finish in the top half of the Big 10.

No! The Big Ten and its members are proud of not our athletic achievements but also our academics as well! I'm not going to slurp the SEC because they are on a roll right now. I like the Big Ten and the rivalries we have. I love the direction the league is going. The last thing I want to do is join in the SEC circle jerk and be forced to cheer for every team in the conference! I love hating the teams in our conference and cheering against them in every bowl & tournament game. We'll just wait a year or so & start kicking the shit out of the SEC elite as a member of the B1G!

I would definitely like to play stronger SEC teams in regular season. I'd just like to see the NCAA fix their competitive oversigning advantage sooner rather than later.

2 words HELL NO, and i shouldn't have to explain my answer!

First of all your suggestion of even a hypothetical move to the SEC is completely preposterous!
It would never be there. Not because the SEC fans and southerners in general would scoff at a "Yankee" school coming there but because it would make that conference too dominant and powerful. They'd publicly scoff at us coming there but privately they'd give up several schools in that conference if need be to make room for us. Because even in spite of them owning a 10-1 record vs us in bowl games, they know we're MAJOR and would give them a legitimacy they've NEVER had.
The only school from Ohio that would try and make a move to the SEC if they seek to expand to 16 would of course be Cincinnati.

Their chief argument for entry into that league would go something like this: "Georgetown Kentucky is a mere suburb of Cincinnati which isn't all that far from Lexington. Our people here speak with a southern twang. We call "dinner" "supper." We once played in the Missouri Valley conference where most of the schools were either on or just west of the Mississippi. So let us in PPPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Accept it, yes. Prefer it, no. I like the idea of making the B1G stonger, by upping the level of competition. Its not like the S E C doesn't have its weak teams also. No way independent. Like said above, independents will have no chance at a championship. I would much prefer to see the B1G add somemore quality teams before the other conferences scarf them up.

I like the idea of improving the B1G with better teams. It seems as if the B12 is just going to fall apart here soon because of the longhorn network which would leave all the remaining teams up for grabs. Oklahoma and OKST would be a package deal just like Texas/Texas Tech. It seems that the B1G would much rather have ND over all these teams just because of academics and the huge fan following.

If ND were to come to the B1G and B12 were to fall apart it would be cool to go after Texas and Oklahoma but because I dont see the "super conferences" going over 16 the B1G would need to find out which is more likely to come our way because of there package deals. Going off of where the schools are located you would think they would be more into the idea of being in the PAC 12.

(Insert nasty word of your choosing) NO!

Firstly, regardless of what is going on atm, there is something to playing not only Michigan, but all of the other Big10 teams - the historical relationships and rivalries are much too important (to me).

Secondly, switching just because of relative conference strength is not smart. Fifteen years ago the Big10 was a much better football conference than the SEC. Right now the Big10 is better in basketball. The SEC looks like it is in for a long run, but it could change over th enext ten years and then you've switched for nothing.

Thirdly, in the Big10 travel to away games is for the most part reasonable in both cost and time (well, maybe not with $4 per gallon gasoline). Switching to another major conference would make travel nearly impossible for many.

Some people have mentioned about scheduling a second out-of-conference football game with a significant opponent every year. I don't see it happening. It's tough to get good teams to want to play you, and it doesn't make much sense to put 2 risky games on the OOC schedule when most other schools have one or none. The Big10 recovering some of it's power would address much of that. If Michigan University rebounds under Jabba the Hoke, MSU continues it's run with Dantonio, and Wisconsin likewise with the Whiner, then we only need a few other teams to rise to that level to get theBig10 much closer to the SEC. Among Nebraska, Penn St, Illinois and Iowa (in the near term) hopefully we can see that. And frankly, the rest of the Big10 (Indy, Purdue, Minny, NW) has a ways to go but all of those programs seem to be possibly heading in the right direction. Also, while the cream of the SEC is as good as ever, there seems to be more of a dropoff now once you get into the pack. A few years ago the SEC was killer top to bottom, to me it doesn't seem so anymore.

BTW, does losing a title game 21-0 hurt more than 41-14? I sure hope so.

Down vote for saying "we" as OSU fans,when you are a Frontrunning Ky. fan,hope you thread on this board again when U'all have to vacate that championship fpr buying Davis for a year!

No

A Big Ten without Ohio State!!!!!.......UHHHH NO!