(05-23-2023 02:34 PM)BeepBeepJeep Wrote:  More teams cannot possibly mean less travel overall, unless the PAC schools and the 14 B1G schools simply don't play each other.

Perspective. It's less overall travel for USC and UCLA if they have 2 or 4 other West Coast schools in the Big 10 with them. Make them a division and that's 5 Big 10 games played on the West Coast for each West Coast school. In a 9 game conference schedule the West Coast schools travel East twice each. And the 12 East Coast teams travel west 1 time every season. If you add 4 more to the East to go to 24 it lessens travel for those in the East even more.