From the AP: The Big Ten had neatly drawn up its football schedules for the next three seasons before Nebraska joined the conference. Now those dates and travel plans have all been tossed to the wind.

When conference officials and member athletic directors meet in late July or early August, they'll face a thicket of questions in a brave, new world for the Big Ten. With Nebraska on board as the Big Ten's 12th member, most likely starting in 2011, what will be the divisions in football? How should the conference schedule be set up? Where will the football championship game be played? Will there be different divisional alignments to balance other sports?

"We'll meet, talk about divisions, try to figure that piece out and talk about a process for a championship game and a location process," Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said Wednesday. "There'll probably be other opinions in the room."

Indeed. This will be the most interesting part of it all. Sometimes even a small change can be viewed as an opportunity for a power grab. And this is obviously not a small change.

Your thoughts on any of the questions raised in that second paragraph of the AP story or by Myron Medcalf in this story in the comments. Personally, we'd like to see the Gophers in a one-team "Northern" division for football, while the other 11 fight for the other piece of the conference championship. Rose Bowl drought? What Rose Bowl drought?