You want to know what gets me every single time I look at a college football landscape now? We are preparing for a season where we go play Notre Dame, a team we used to see maybe once a decade, and it is a big deal sure. But in the same breath we are watching UCLA and USC roll through the Big Ten schedule like they own the place. I remember when the Big Ten meant something. It meant cold November games in Iowa City, it meant fighting for the roses in Pasadena against the Pac-10 champion. Now we have the Big Ten playing games on the West Coast at 10:30 PM Eastern and calling it tradition. The conference realignnment destroyed everything that made this league special.
We lost the annual battles with teams like Ohio State and Michigan meant something because we saw them every year. Now the schedule rotates so much I cannot even keep track of who we are playing half the time. I never thought I would see the day where we are in the same league as Oregon and Washington. It makes no sense. The old Big Ten had a soul. You knew what you were getting every Saturday. Now it is just a television contract dressed up in a conference logo. The whole thing makes me sick. We traded rivalries for revenue and the sport is worse for it.