USC and Stanford have played consistently for more than 100 years in a rivalry traversing the roads of which John Steinbeck wrote. In their final meeting until who-knows-when, today is the Winter of Our Discontent.
No matter how one tries to reconcile the mass migration of teams to mega conferences and the destruction of the Pac 12, it still reeks of money grubbing stupid. The Bigs (12, 10, SEC) and the All Coasts Conference will have to have divisions with an end of season playoff. They will then divide up the major bowl games. I still am angry at the death of the Southwest Conference (I'm old). The death of the Pac 12 angers me to the nth degree. I will probably pas from this life still wishing for the return of region as l conferences with regional rivalries.
No matter how one tries to reconcile the mass migration of teams to mega conferences and the destruction of the Pac 12, it still reeks of money grubbing stupid. The Bigs (12, 10, SEC) and the All Coasts Conference will have to have divisions with an end of season playoff. They will then divide up the major bowl games. I still am angry at the death of the Southwest Conference (I'm old). The death of the Pac 12 angers me to the nth degree. I will probably pas from this life still wishing for the return of region as l conferences with regional rivalries.