I knew USC was not going to be paraded around the Big Ten like a prized pony. I said it made the most sense to have an east and west division.
IMO what made and makes sense is that USC will be in a west division with say. UCLA, UW, UO, Nebraska, Iowa and maybe who else. Wisconsin? Minnesota? Illinois? Either way. Travel won't be that bad. You won't see USC in Maryland or Rutgers.
They can play the conference Championship game in the Rams new stadium or the Rose Bowl. At least UCLA can feel like the contribute something. I'm personally bummed to see UW and UO join. Takes a lot of fire out of the USC and UCLA departures. Especially UO. Think they are part of the problem that made USC leave, so having them tag along like a afterthought sucks.
Either way. Not much will change. Utah and Colorado will traded for Neb and Iowa. Similar flights. Arizona and ASU for someone a bit further. In the end, not a whole lot of travel difference. There will be 7 games on one side of the conference and you'll play 2 games rotationally across the other side. So eventually everyone will see the prized pony.
UA and ASU in a truckstop conference is quite appropriate. I always said Colorado never should have left. Big 12 got a sleepy strong power in Utah for football.
Soon the SEC and Big Ten will have their own TC deals, make their own rules, stage their own National CHampionship game and tell the NCAA to F off, they aren't needed.
...And they ain't playing the CCG in SoCal.
Utah, TCU, KSU and OSU the power teams of the B12. Not much sex appeal, but pretty solid football.
I don't know about divisions. The B1G is now at 18 teams. If you're going back to divisions with limited inter-division play, that's too big even for a full round-robin within the division unless you only play one inter-division per year. Who signed up for that? And who's interested in a schedule that has SC playing UCLA, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Minnesota every freaking year? You see the eastern teams what, once every 9 years, once every 18 at home? Screw that. SC had a better shot at playing the good teams under the old Rose Bowl format than they would under your 2-division proposal.
Ok Mr Where do Furd and Cal end up?