We are so close to real football, but this is also our last chance to think about Big Ten expansion for a while.
This summer brought insanity to the Big Ten conference when UCLA and USC announced they were leaving the Pac-12 to face opponents across the country. It also sparked a number of discussions surrounding who would be next. Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren has been very public about leaving the door open to other schools joining.
FiveThirtyEight recently took a statistical approach to who would actually fit best in the Big Ten conference. What did they come up with? Here is a look at the ten schools they could see joining based on tiers of how good the fit would be (Tier 1 = best fit):