Have fun trying to keep travel equitable. USC and UCLA will pretty much always have the greatest travel burden no matter how you schedule it, but I suppose for them, that was the price that had to be paid to get out of the Pac 12. If the number of protected games per team is greater than one, then two or more teams from the 'main' Big Ten region will get stuck flying to the west coast more often. Then again, regularly playing games in southern California might not be bad for recruiting...