re: Anybody else think the B1G messed up the new divisions set to begin in 2014?

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why wouldn't you want want two of the better teams to meet in the CCG? It seems to me the SEC has benefited greatly from the divisions being fairly balanced

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I think you are making 2 different arguments. On the one hand you are saying 1 division is too stacked and on the other saying only a couple of teams have dominated the conference. If you only have 2 or 3 top programs, spreading the them out makes the divisions look more balanced on paper, but it doesn't make the league overall more balanced. If you want more different teams to win, then you'd be better off keeping the historically dominant programs in the same division. Or to put another way, you list of conference winners won't change by putting tOSU and UM in different divisions.

With the SEC you have balance because you have 6 maybe 7 now with A&M, that can and have won at a high level. 6 different SEC teams have won the NC since 1980, 5 since 1998, only 4 teams currently in the B1G have won a NC in that same time and 2 of those (PSU and NU) were not in the B1G last time they won.