... might prefer a more limited playoff system anyway, to help keep the other schools from getting a bigger cut of the pie? Not sure.
As for my earlier post in regard to the Rose Bowl, it would make even more sense if the Big Ten snatched another four (or more) teams from the Pac-12.
Then they could have eastern and western divisions, with the eastern schools sort of representing the old Big Ten and the western schools more like the old Pac-10. Then the conference title game would have some semblance to the traditional conference rivalry at the Rose Bowl.
Yet I've read about intentions to discontinue conference championship games too, so my speculation is probably way off.
It just struck me as a way to maintain the traditional pageantry of the Rose Bowl, since that's another big topic with these recent developments.
EDIT: All of these changes will turn off a lot of old college football fans, of course. I'm not super-keen about it either, but I've become accustomed to humanity needing to SERVE MONEY above all else in this country. It's basically our country's God, regularly demanding sacrifices from the majority of people. Let's just reduce the whole planet to a barren wasteland while we're at it, since that's what money seems to demand.
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