Call them the Big Tentative. This week the Big 10, which really includes 11 teams but had as few as nine member schools during World War II, announced its desire to find a 12th suitor over the next 18 months to round out the conference and create more problems for elementary math students and those hoping to gain entry to Ohio State University, where entrance exams for football players in the Woody Hayes era included the question “How many teams are in the Big 10?”
TCU and Boise State are not the victims of some vast conspiracy against the non-BCS conferences. That would imply there is some level of secrecy to the whole charade and we know those are only used on the Clintons, Kennedy family members and Tiger Woods sext-message-o-the-week recipients. They are simply the victim of greed disguised as higher education, a model adopted and perfected by the Ivy League over the past 200 years and adapted for football by the six major conferences over the past 12 seasons. Let the whine and kickers flow.