Wisconsin A.D. Barry Alvarez claims part of the reason the Big Ten added Maryland and Rutgers was because they feared losing its easternmost member to an unspecified "league somewhere on the East Coast?"
The Big Ten and Pac-12 announced on Friday that an agreement for a full complement of football games between the conferences starting in 2017 had fizzled because of scheduling issues. College football fans lose again.
Conference Realignment: Even With Mass Defections To The Big 12, ACC Will Live On
According to a statement from the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors (COP/C), the conference is "not actively engaged in conference expansion at this time, or at any time in the foreseeable future, barring a significant shift in the current intercollegiate athletic landscape."
Will the B1G Ten get bigger? Not right away, according to Jim Delany, who told the Chicago Tribune's Teddy Greenstein that the conference has "closed down active expansion."
Examining the effect that the BCS conferences breaking away from the rest of Division I-A would have on college football.
