I am not trying to be pessimistic at all just realistic

Missouri It is easy to see how harmful it is for Iowa to get bumped up into a BCS game, pushing all the other Big Ten teams up to face tougher opponents. The Big Ten is normally slated for the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl against a MAC team (for No. 7 Big Ten team), but will forgo that bowl if another team does actually get thrown into the BCS from the conference.While things would be much more manageable if you took Iowa out of the Fiesta Bowl and bumped everyone down a game, we have to live with the reality that this will most likely not happen. Outside of a Nebraska upset of Texas (and maybe a Pittsburgh upset of Cincinnati), the Big Ten is looking at another team in the BCS. As I look at the schedule, I don't see many favorable matchups for the conference. If the bowl schedule resembles this in any way, I could easily see the Big Ten looking at another 1-6 or 2-5 record.I am not trying to be pessimistic at all, just realistic. I find myself rooting for the conference as a whole a lot more these days and was pretty bummed to see these projections.I believe the conference will once again regain some of the perception and power it had in the '90s, but this schedule will not help it build back to that reality.

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