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... Notre Dame and Oregon will next join their conference.

REPORT: There Is ‘Confidence’ Notre Dame And Oregon Will Eventually Join The Big Ten
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2022/07/02/report-big-ten-possibly-adding-notre-dame-oregon

EDIT: Notre Dame "only" gets $15 million from their TV contract with NBC. Yet the TV revenue from the Big Ten Network is expected to be more than a billion dollars when it's renegotiated, and that's over $50 million even if it's divided equally among 20 schools.

If that happens, they should invite Washington and Stanford too. Then they'd have the Seattle and the San Francisco / San Jose TV markets too.

Then they'd have 20 teams (Big Ten x 2). If they have two divisions, with most regular season conference games played within them, it makes more sense to place Notre Dame with their long-time rivals, USC and Stanford, in the west.

Maybe something like this:

WEST
USC
UCLA
Stanford
Oregon
Washington
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Notre Dame

EAST
Rutgers
Maryland
Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan State
Indiana
Purdue
Illinois
Northwestern