With only four schools located near the Pacific, the Big Ten could add three more to keep one conference game as an opportunity to have their original schools play their West Coast acquisitions.

Among Big Ten schools, the penalties for failed drug tests vary between the first, second and third offenses. For example, if a student-athlete at Minnesota failed a drug test for the first time, he ...

"But also people have really committed in the Big Ten. The upper-echelon Big Ten schools have really jumped on as far as recruiting. … In real time, right now, the Big Ten has passed them (the ...