College Football Preview

The Atlantic features 10 Stories To Watch This College Football Season.  My favorite:

Keeping track of conference names and their number of teams

This season Colorado and Utah are becoming the 11th and 12th members of the conference previously known as the Pac-10, and the conference has consequently renamed itself as the Pac-12. The Big 10, which has had 11 teams since Penn State joined in 1990, adds Nebraska this year, but has no intentions of referring to itself as the Big 12—which is helpful in one regard, because the conference that Nebraska just left is still called the Big 12, even though it now only has 10 teams. So for cheat sheet purposes, the Pac-12 has 12 teams, the Big 10 has 12 teams, and the Big 12 has 10 teams. And the habit of calling a conference “big” has nothing to do with Freud; sometimes a conference is just a conference.

This just makes me laugh.  What a bunch of stupidity.  Of course, the Big Ten was known back in the day as the Western Conference, so they've had a tradition of fairly inaccurate names.