schlumper

Uh...just curious as to why you think the B10 is wanted to add a school(s)? Very few schools would add much to their profits or prestige, but any school would add a conference title game. For the record, I would fully support NU in the B10. More money, potential rivals, (since we haven't established a real rival in the north even after playing them for decades) and a conference that isn't completely controlled by one state.

I'd love to see 2 at home pushover/mediocre teams to start, followed by an indefinite home/home series with Miami, followed up by the conference schedule, finishing with another indefinite home/home series with Penn State on the day after Thanksgiving. (if Miami's home; Penn away and vice versa) Penn gains the ability to play later in the year so they aren't rusty for their bowl game like the B10 usually is. Miami of course would be played early in the year so they don't complain about the weather. Both schools have potential for good rivalries: some history/animosity between teams, good money, national publicity, and good recruiting. Both are somewhat lacking in good rivals (1 strong rival each) since the Miami/Florida rivalry has largely died.

Yeah, I'm a security guard at night with a patrol in the middle of nowhere; I have time to over think everything. While I would love to dump CU, both Colorado fans and Husker fans from western Nebraska consider it a rivalry. As for dumping TCU for the other schools you suggested, I picked schools with respectable football programs as that makes the winner of the Big 16 more prestigious. A playoff system wouldn't be bad, but would probably require 18 teams divided into 3 divisions. The winner of each division and a wild card representing the best team that didn't win their division in a 4 team playoff. It just gets overly complicated when you try to introduce the playoff system into the conference level rather than the BCS level.

How about this for a possible solution to current and future division imbalance: floating divisions. 1. Add BYU, Utah, TCU, and Air Force to the conference. (if necessary, only for football and not other sports) 2. Create 4 roughly equal half-divisions: north-NU, ISU, MU, CU central-KU, OU, KS, OSU south-UT, TT, aTm, BU west-TCU, BYU, Utah, AF 3. Divisions are made of 2 half-divisions and swap every 2 years between north (north and west) v. south (central and south) southwest (south and west) v. classic (central and north) 4. 7 games are played within division and 1 game is played cross-division against a teams conference rival if the team has one or random team if not OU v NU and KU v MU in north v south years OU v UT in southwest v classic years 5. Teams with the highest in-division records go to championship. Winner in head to head for tie breaker. Only in the case of 3 way ties are cross-division games counted.