I'm hearing that going forward, OSU will simply start their season with an automatic berth in the conference championship game to prevent devastating losses to teams like Purdue from derailing a B10 berth in the playoffs. Wisconsin is hopeful to get the same treatment for the Western portion soon in order to guarantee an unbeaten team wins each year.
They may not be able to pull that off but they should be able to reasonably conclude that they should never voluntarily play anyone worth a #### in the regular season. They can play their conference schedule and a few cupcakes every year and still get voted into the top 4. Meanwhile we are out here worried about our strengh of schedule to the degree we are scheduling home and homes with frickin Georgia. Must be nice to have a ton of sports writer graduates doing your bidding at every turn.