Move over Michigan and OSU, both certainly good teams, but make room for PSU and Big Administration needs to recognize this. This is now a three team conference.
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It always has been. Michigan has been irrelevant for a quarter century, has half a title in the last 70 years.
Penn State was 10 combined minutes away from flipping the entire conference script in 2017 & 2018. They didn't do it. Had they pulled those two OSU games out, everything changes. Everything. Ifs and butts are candy and nuts.
Sean Clifford has 2 NY6 bowl wins, Michigan has 2 this century and they happened over a decade ago.
People get zombied into thinking Michigan is great, they aren't.
Just remember the 1995 Rose bowl ... when the B1G Fraud conference claimed to be weak and voted against PSU for the National Championship despite the fact that the Pac10 that year put the most players into the forthcoming draft and the B1G placed the second most in the draft by just a couple of draftees. The B1G was down alright in a hole of self-pity and worthy of the title LOATHSOME.
So would PSU be considered great if they had won those games in 17 and 18 against OSU and flipped the script winning back to back BIG cg. I say on a great run but truly Great is what OSU has done over and over.
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But winning those two may have drastically altered future recruiting. We will never know…..🙁
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It’s a one team conference, OSU. Michigan’s only consistent relevance the last two decades has been that they’re OSUs main rival and the league markets the hell out of “the game”.
IIRC Franklin is 3-6 against Michigan and 1-8 against OSU. PSU is going to have to prove it on the field.
Conference Records the last 20 years... its been a one team conference. Amazing we're as high as we are considering the sanctions. Wisconsin and Iowa inflated by playing in the west.
| Team | Wins | Losses | % |
| Ohio State | 141 | 22 | 0.865 |
| Wisconsin | 112 | 52 | 0.683 |
| Michigan | 107 | 57 | 0.652 |
| Penn State | 101 | 66 | 0.605 |
| Iowa | 100 | 66 | 0.602 |
| Michigan State | 93 | 72 | 0.564 |
| Northwestern | 79 | 86 | 0.479 |
| Nebraska | 47 | 55 | 0.461 |
| Minnesota | 69 | 96 | 0.418 |
| Purdue | 65 | 99 | 0.396 |
| Maryland | 23 | 52 | 0.307 |
| Illinois | 44 | 122 | 0.265 |
| Indiana | 41 | 124 | 0.248 |
| Rutgers | 13 | 66 | 0.165 |
Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting (and narrative). They couldn’t cede the top of the mountain to the new kid. They would be playing catch up for a decade. —ain’t Nothing benevolent or even objective about this conference …… vested self interest drives the monster
And OOC records for the last 20 years. OSU is the only program in the conference with a lower win %. Take from that what you will.
| Teams | Wins | Losses | % |
| Ohio State | 78 | 17 | 0.821 |
| Penn State | 65 | 18 | 0.783 |
| Wisconsin | 74 | 21 | 0.779 |
| Minnesota | 62 | 21 | 0.747 |
| Iowa | 64 | 23 | 0.736 |
| Maryland | 22 | 8 | 0.733 |
| Rutgers | 20 | 8 | 0.714 |
| Michigan State | 61 | 25 | 0.709 |
| Michigan | 59 | 27 | 0.686 |
| Indiana | 48 | 25 | 0.658 |
| Nebraska | 28 | 17 | 0.622 |
| Northwestern | 50 | 33 | 0.602 |
| Illinois | 42 | 32 | 0.568 |
| Purdue | 43 | 37 | 0.538 |
