The Big Ten Conference resembles the Twin Cities roadways the past few months. Under construction. The league should change its logo to an orange barrel.
Schools removed conference football schedules beyond the 2022 season from their websites because nobody knows how things will look or function a year from now. The assumption is that the East-West division structure will cease to exist. The mechanism for grouping teams and determining a champion becomes even more complicated when USC and UCLA arrive in 2024.
Even though USC is no longer Pete Carroll's USC, and UCLA is hardly a football powerhouse, their additions will make the Big Ten even more challenging in the annual slog to establish pecking order. Expansion won't water down the product.
