[Alberta's Child]

I remember when the Big Ten Conference didn’t have 837 schools in it. :-P

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I remember when the Pac-8 had only schools from Pacific coast states in it, when I started college at the University of Oregon.

[Roadrunner383]

“I remember when the Big Ten Conference didn’t have 837 schools in it. :-P”

You’re so 20th Century.

Financially, makes sense if the legal issues can be resolved with Grant Of Rights, etc. Geographically, it’s terrible, and what’s it going to do with traditional rivalries? Unfortunately, it’s all about the Benjamins (as the cool kids say), traditions be damned.

[Maine Mariner]

Yes but at one time it had the University of Chicago and the first Heisman Trophy Winner-Jay Berwanger, 1935.