As it seems to do on a nearly annual basis over the last decade, the earth moved beneath us again in collegiate sports a couple weeks ago with another round of realignment. This time it was about as significant and cutthroat as it gets, with USC and UCLA getting pilfered…

As it seems to do on a nearly annual basis over the last decade, the earth moved beneath us again in collegiate sports a couple weeks ago with another round of realignment. This time it was about as significant and cutthroat as it gets, with USC and UCLA getting pilfered from the Pac-12 by the Big Ten, leaving us with a conference map for the Big Ten that looks like this:
Geography became a secondary concern for conference structure ten years ago, but now it’s clearly of no concern at all.…