re: Big10(+1+1=12?) announces 9 game conference schedule in 2017

The extra conference game is largely overblown; in the P12's case, the ninth conference game has pretty much taken the place of a good OOC game. It's good for a conference that makes money. After all, what would you rather have--Iowa playing Syracuse and half the money going to the B1G, or Iowa playing Michigan State and all the money going to the B1G?

The 9th conference game had virtually no effect on the P10/12's SOS; same will go for the B1G.

And honestly, I'd rather see LSU play a 9th SEC team than play Oregon or West Virginia or Arizona or Washington or North Carolina, etc...