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The new Big 10, Pac 10 and Big 12

Expansion. We nearly had it. Colorado knocked over the first domino, which looked like it would set off a chain reaction and change the landscape of football. Then we get to Texas and expansion was stopped...for now at least. The new Pac 10 (currently with 11 teams) is a program away from having a championship game...and it looks like Utah will be the final piece of that puzzle. If Utah joins, I'd say the best way to split em up would be a pseudo North-South alignment. In one division, have Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford and Cal. In the other, place USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado. And where will the title game be played??? LA of course. Now, to the Big 10 (which now has 12 teams) acquired Nebraska, and will have a 12 team league in 2011. For this conference, I see an East-West schism. In one division, I see Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois and Northwestern. In the other, I see Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Pe