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Right now the Buckeyes are the only school that plays all of the Big Ten's "Helmet" teams annually, with Nebraska as the fixed crossover. That's the way that I like it.

If we can't have that, then gimme the Trophy Game with the Illini. 

The Battle of Lake Michigan between the Badgers and the Wolverines is already a natural and logical crossover rivalry. 

???

Where did you see that? 

I still have some pretty reliable sources (and one in particular - $$$ guy) in Madison.

I'm ok with making an exception for IU/PU because that is an instate rivalry and I think it should be played every year.  Also, I *REALLY* don't like the idea of a possibility of two teams meeting the last weekend then meeting again a week later in the B1GCG so I thought it was stupid to have Ohio State and Michigan in opposite divisions and still playing the last weekend back when we had Legends and Leaders.  Fortunately Michigan made it irrelevant by basically being irrelevant.  In the case of IU/PU it seems like the chances of not just one but both of them winning their divisions are minimal so who cares.  

Yeah, it's kinda sad that I [as a fan] actually appreciate that both programs have enough long-term irrelevance that there's almost zero chance that both programs will be good enough at the same time to make it a truly meaningful game. As a result of that irrelevance everyone is like "okay, we'll set the kiddie table up for IU and Purdue."
But I want to play IU on the last weekend of the regular season, regardless of what the rationale is to allow it. That's how the regular season is supposed to end. So hey, I'll take it.
[I also think the regular season is supposed to end with OSU and Michigan playing. But they're in the same division now, so they don't have to justify it.]

10 conference games goes a long way to fix a lot of things, and so does going back to 11 schools.

Amen

yup, but let's leave them "fixed"
build a tradition instead of flipping every 6 years

Right.

So in 6 years UW and UM will have a "thing" going, much like OSU and UW and MSU and UW had a "thing" going. Then they took the "thing" away.

And those were some good "things" with great games.

Cross-over schedules should be set up so that each of the Big 4 teams in each division play 2 times in 4 years.  Then the Big 4 teams would play the other 3 teams in the other division twice in 6 years.  

For example  Wisconsin could have the following cross-over schedule

Year 1 :  @OSU, MSU, @MD
Year2:   @MSU, PSU, Rut
Year 3:   @PSU,  Mich, @Indy
Year 4:   @Mich, OSU, MD

Year 5:  @OSU, MSU, @Rut
Year 6:   @MSU, PSU, Indy
Year 7:   @PSU,  Mich, @MD
Year 8   @Mich, OSU, Rut

Year 9 :  @OSU, MSU, @Indy
Year 10:   @MSU, PSU, MD
Year 11:   @PSU,  Mich, @Rut
Year 12   @Mich, OSU, Indy