UCLA and USC potentially going to the Big Ten Conference.

[schwabach]

Nah, they'll end up with less travel because the conferences will set up regional divisions. It will be back to how it used to be with regional conferences. The Big Ten will have the northern half of the country and the SEC the southern half, and they'll each have 3 or 4 divisions set up regionally.

The wrinkle in the scheme is that NCAA football and basketball is reconstructing itself like pro-sports, but they don't have a draft which helps even out the talent across teams. The draft is imperfect, of course, but I don't see how they will maintain any semblance of balance in this brave new world of college sports. And yes, I am aware that the imbalances are pretty significant now.