The constant juggling of college football conference realignments often brings more good than bad when it is done correctly. That said, there still are some downsides to it. The biggest downside can be the loss of annual rivalries that have become tradition.
Rivalries are part of college football’s DNA and have their place on each team’s schedule. They mean more, the fans get up for these games, and they are often trophy games. The Iowa Hawkeyes have three of these games that are always a dogfight and oftentimes have conference standings or even Big Ten West title implications at stake.
As UCLA and USC join the Big Ten soon, they will most certainly shake up the schedules of each team. CBS Sports’ Tom Fornelli looked at the conference as a whole and projected who the three permanent rivals of each team should be with the rest of the teams in the conference making their way onto the schedule every other year.