A few weeks ago, I read a football article that mentioned something like, "Wisconsin is now the favorite in the Leaders Division." My first reaction was, "I don't have a clue who else is in the Leaders Division, and that Wisconsin was even in the Leaders Division!" But I have solved my problem with a handy mnemonic, that I hope will take off like Roy G. Biv, and the countless others that I have forgotten over the years.
First of all, the hardest part was actually spelling "mnemonic" so I developed a mnemonic for that: My Neurotic Eagle Mimics Owls Nesting in Caves." That solved, on to the Big Ten!
So my handy mnemonic is "I owe Nelson Money." That is IoNM. One division is comprised of the schools that start with M, N, or Io, so Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Nebraska, and Iowa are in one division, and the rest in the other. But is this the Legends or Leaders division, you ask? Well, it is LegeNds, because Legends is the only division name that contains an M, N, I, or O.
Anyway, that is how I will keep the divisions straight. Of course, we need these divisions because doing East and West, based on Lake Michigan and the Indiana/Illinois border, would have been so unbalanced (insert sarcasm here). That would have required trading Michigan and Michigan State to the other division for Wisconsin and Illinois, and the balance of power would be so drastically changed (insert heavier, more annoying sarcasm here), that it would have ruined sporting life as we know it.
