Big Ten expansion BP poll: Nebraska is in, who is next?

[Emperor Brutus]

I'm always surprised Notre Dame gets so many votes, I hate Michigan, I don't like Penn State, I seethe at a loss to Wisco, but when the Big Ten goes up against someone else I usually pull for our conference partners. That said I just really don't like Notre Dame, as strange as it would be for some teams to come into the conference, the one team I just can't stomach the though of seeing Big Ten on their uniforms is Notre Dame, they are anathema to the Big Ten. I know, people argue for their national appeal, my question is how long does that last if they come into a conference and are middle of the pack for the foreseeable future? What if they become the consensus second best team in their own state?

I'm getting the feeling the Big Ten is basically going to become two conferences under one name at least for football. I know it isn't popular but I'd like to keep the conference contiguous, I don't want the conference to be a bunch of schools joined together that thirty years from now people ask "how the fuck did that happen." If this must happen and I believe that it is, and I don't get a say, so some teams must be picked. With the new teams coming in I'd at least like to try to keep each old Big Ten school with four others, so split it at Indiana/Illinois and add two east and two west. East Syracuse and Maryland/West Missouri and Kansas.

If everyone goes to 16 the SEC will stick together and add four. The ACC might lose some members but their anchor in North Carolina will stick together and they'll find a way to get to 16. Texas will find 16 teams that it can keep bossing around but they won't go to the SEC or come to the Big Ten. The Pac certainly have a plan that they are now just waiting to execute because they know they're going to need it.