The larger theater of conference realignment is creating many absurd scenarios and realities as we speak. The very real possibility that the Big Ten might expand to 20 schools if the Pac-12 dies is at the top of the list. The Big Ten might add Oregon, Washington, Stanford and California if the Pac-12 splinters and becomes extinct. That would be a seismic development in college sports, one year after USC and UCLA left for the Big Ten.
So many aspects of college sports would change, and in the course of time, we’re going to tackle those various subjects … but we can’t hit all of those topics in one shot. We have to do this one subject at a time.
In this piece, we focus on the specific matter of the Big Ten football schedule.
It will need to be thrown into the garbage bin. USC’s new conference will have to start fresh in constructing its new schedule.
Let’s walk through this tangled, dizzying and absurd process: