College football’s conference calls missed a few connections
It's college football season, and that means it's time to come up for new names for some old conferences that can't seem to get it done themselves.
The Big Ten was long the worst offender, in that it had 11 members. Now it has 12. But it can't have the "Big 12" moniker because that belongs to the actual Big 12, which has — wait for it — 10 members. Or nine, depending on what kind of mood Texas A&M is in on any given day. Then there's the Pac-10, which added two members.
But wait: The Pac-10 became the Pac-12! Finally, evidence that advanced mathematics is being taught on college campuses somewhere in this great land of ours. The Pac-12 did it right, stealing, er, adding Colorado and Utah and splitting into two divisions, sensibly named North and South. (Stay tuned for insensible division names.)
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