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I'll start with the easy one, the B1G-E:

The 8-0 Buckeyes have already clinched a share of their eighth straight B1G-E Championship and their tenth straight B1G-Divisional Championship.  Ohio State has literally won at least a share of the B1G-E in every year that there has been a B1G-E to win a share of. 

Michigan is a game behind the Buckeyes and will be playing this Saturday for what would be their second B1G-E Championship and first-ever B1GCG appearance.  Their previous divisional title was a co-championship with the Buckeyes inn in 2018 but the Wolverines lost the H2H tiebreaker. 

All other teams have at least two losses and are thus mathematically eliminated from winning any portion of the B1G-E. 

Now on to the B1G-W:
Nobody has clinched anything in the B1G-W yet.  Wisconsin (@MN) and Iowa (@UNL) are the co-leaders at 6-2 but both are playing on the road this weekend against credible opponents.  Meanwhile Minnesota (vsUW) and Purdue (vsIU) are both 5-3 and playing 1at home this weekend. 

Thus there are three games relevant to the outcome of the division so here is a handy-dandy table of the eight potential outcomes:

If Wisconsin wins (scenarios #1-4) they go to the CG.  The only question is whether they go as co-champs with Iowa (#1-2) or as outright champions (#3-4). 

If Wisconsin loses and Iowa wins (scenarios #5-6), the Hawkeyes go to the CG as outright champions. 

If Wisconsin and Iowa both lose that creates a three or four way tie for the B1G-W Championship between the two of them, Minnesota, and possibly the Boilermakers (scenarios #7-8). 

In scenario #7 the first tiebreaker is H2H2H2H where Minnesota and Wisconsin would both be 2-1 while Iowa and Purdue would both be 1-2.  That eliminates the Hawkeyes and Boilermakers.  Then Minnesota and Wisconsin revert to their two-team H2H and Minnesota wins. 

In scenario #8 the three teams all went 1-1 against each other so we move to the next tiebreaker which is divisional record.  The Badgers win that because both of their other losses were to B1G-E teams. 

well, I've seen enough of #1, like most of us.

#2 and #5 are no good for me because of my neighbors - although I am an Iowan and it could be worse.

#4, #5, and #6 are no good because I'm much more of a Buckeye fan than TTUN

guess I'll root for #3 and be disappointed - cause I don't think the paddles and oars are big enough for the boat

A Gopher-OSU rematch of week 1 would be great fun.

i would rather see a Gopher-Michigan game 

but a lot has to happen for this match up

I got a hypothetical for you Medina.

What if there were no divisions, and the top 2 teams go to the CCG.  Everybody plays the exact same 2021 schedule as they did in reality.  This weekend OSU,MSU, Wisc, Iowa all win so standings look like this.

1.  OSU 9-0
2.  MSU 7-2,  Mich 7-2, Wisc 7-2, Iowa 7-2

Who would go the CCG to play OSU?

I assume it would be Buckeyes vs. MSU because:

MSU is 1-0 against the others,
Michigan is 1-1 against the others,
Wisconsin is 1-1 against the others,
and Iowa is 0-1 against the others.

I concur.  

That said, if we did eliminate divisions my preferred tiebreaker for a situation like @LittlePig laid out where there is a clear #1 and at least two teams tied for #2 would be:

• Record against #1 (1-0 IS better than 0-0 IS better than 0-1)
• H2H among the tied teams.  

With my proposed tiebreaker the two Michigan schools would be eliminated at step #1 and Wisconsin would beat Iowa at step #2 so we would get tOSU v UW instead of a rematch of a tOSU/MSU game that was played two weeks before the CG and which tOSU won by 49 points.  

I prefer this because I'd rather see a new matchup than a rematch where #1 already beat #2.  IMHO, that rematch is silly because:

• If #1 wins again nobody cares because it is expected, and
• If #2 wins the rematch they aren't "better" than #1, they are merely 1-1 so it feels like you need ANOTHER rematch.  

In an alternate universe where say Michigan lost to PSU but beat tOSU so the same tie for second place exists my proposal would put Michigan up against the Buckeyes again.  As much as I don't like a rematch of a game played seven days earlier this makes more sense to me.  In this scenario tOSU finishes as the #1 team.  Michigan's win over tOSU "looks like" an upset because they finished a game behind so lets have a rematch and:

• If #1 wins the rematch they avenge the earlier game and effectively "prove" that it was just an upset, and
• If #2 wins again they effectively "prove" that their first win wasn't just an upset, they really are that good.  

Note that I would ONLY apply this tiebreaker if #1 was NOT tied.  Ie, if four teams tied for #1 I wouldn't apply the above to determine #2 after determining #1.  I would ONLY use this where #1 had a better record than the teams tied for #2.