Big Ten members generally share common principles and philosophies, but rarely do their football programs link arms and back up one another the way other conferences do. There’s no “B-1-G” chant to match the “S-E-C!” that echoes in the stands after a victory against another conference.

There is even a relegation idea to it, but the point was to try and keep things as geographically balanced while still retaining conferences with the same number of teams when possible. This lead to others sharing their ideas,

Now that the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff is down to four teams remaining — the size of the field the previous 10 seasons — things really don’t look that much different.