<p>^ When I google “Nebraska Cornhuskers rivalry” about 80% of the items that come up refer to the Nebraska-Oklahoma football rivalry. Only one item in the first five pages makes reference to a Nebraska-Colorado rivalry. But you may be right about Oklahoma’s main rival being Texas. These things are often asymmetrical. Michigan is Michigan State’s biggest rival by far, but not vice versa; for Michigan, Michigan State is third after Ohio State and Notre Dame. And a bunch of other Big Ten schools consider the Michigan game one of their top rivalry games, but to Michigan they’re just ordinary conference games, the non-rivalry part of their schedule.</p>
<p>I think you’re right about West Virginia and Buffalo. So maybe the Big Ten will just land Rutgers and be stuck at 12 members—a good round number for a playoff. </p>
<p>Then following the recent tradition in which the Big Ten actually has 11 members, they could change the conference name to the Big Eleven and have 12 members, thereby avoiding any naming conflict with that other Big 12.</p>