re: Chicago Tribune: Sources within Big 10 say they might want to expand to 18 teams

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Pretty soon LSU will be in the western division of the SEC and will only play those schools and the eastern side will in essence be another conference.

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What would make it easier to analogize it would be to the NFL monikers.

Big 10 would be an 18 team "League" like the NFL is a League. East and West would basically be the AFC/NFC conferences with no divisions I imagine within them. Playing a round robin "conference" schedule to determine East/West champion who then play each other (Super Bowl).

Kind of like the idea I liked if the NFL went to 18 game schedules. Get rid of divisions, play 15 round robin conference games. 3 Out of conference. Get rid of playoffs, champions play. Pretty fair system to determine Super Bowl champion.

Same thing here. Round robin within East and West.
You won't have the Bama and Georgia example from the SEC this year playing 2 Top teams instead of the Four that other teams played due to scheduling issues.