Detente

If the SEC expanded into Texas or deeper into Florida to form an expanded conference, it would not only be the best conference competitively speaking, but it would also finally overtake the Big Ten in shared revenue to its teams. That's something that the big Ten may not want, according to Dennis Dodd over at CBSSports. Right now, the B10 gets $22 million to each team as opposed to the SEC's $17 million. If expansion happens, the sleeping southern giant would overtake first place quickly, especially since TV contracts would certainly have to renegotiated. So, maybe the Big Ten will just posture and sabre-rattle until the rumor fades, like some Cold War of college football superpower. If so, we're getting all Nixonian Realpolitik up in here and Mike Slive's playing Kissinger.

Slive actually looks like an attendant at SALT I