<p>The Big Ten is definitely tops when it comes to combining major sports and academics. We have five schools in the top 50 for academics and our teams are always in the national title picture for football/basketball. Penn State is too good to be in the Big East. The Big East doesn’t even deserve an automatic BCS bid, plus not one of the schools in the conference cracks the top 50 for academics (going by football, since there are about 25 teams that seem to play in the conference for basketball). The Big Ten is the standard for conferences.</p>