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Conference Sticks with Longtime Name, but Changes Logo
The Big Ten now has twelve members instead of eleven, but since there is already a Big 12, the Big Ten which had eleven schools over the last ten years will remain the Big Ten although they have twelve schools instead of either eleven or ten. Got that? It’s called the Big Time, sports fans, so stay alert.
Actually, we look forward to next year, or is it the year after (who can keep up?), when the Big Ten will have a conference championship game to tie up in a neat bow the conference football title and determine which member school will represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl, unless of course that team is in the BCS championship game which would put another Big Ten team in the Rose Bowl because the BCS carries more weight, although it’s an independent entity, detached from the Big Ten’s governing body, the NCAA, which is staying out of the whole thing. Whew!
Back to something sane we can more sensibly deal with which is the true excitement newcomer Nebraska brings to the Big Ten. A powerhouse in nearly every sport they fund, no time will pass before the Huskers have created lasting and intense rivalries with neighboring Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois, not to mention the other great battles which will occur when The Big Red heads to Columbus, Madison, Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Western PA. Yummy!
Outside of football, the new alignment will also establish arguably the top Division I volleyball conference in the country. A legitimate Top Five program for a number of years, the Lady Huskers will join Penn State, Illinois and Ohio State as national powers with the other Big Ten programs not lagging far behind. Other sports will benefit as well which bodes just fine for Midwesterners looking for yet another reason to cheer.
All in all, while we regret the impact Nebraska’s move will have on the Big 12, and will certainly miss the annual Husker-Sooner battles, nothing else, save perhaps Notre Dame finally caving in to join the conference, could have happened which would have produced a more positive outcome for the Big Ten. And it sets up nicely for the next phase of college athletics where the newly formed Super Conferences rule the college landscape on an even larger scale. As the nation’s oldest Division I conference, the Big Ten is boldly stepping out of its comfort zone to compete with the dynamic SEC, the basketball-baseball-soccer-field hockey-heavy ACC, and the re-shuffled PAC 10 which, by the way, will soon become the Pac 12. Oh, and the Big 12? It has eleven members. Here we go again!
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