Lol. These excuses are hilarious. Protect themselves from what? Not having as big of a scrooge mccduck money bin? GTFO with these dumb excuses.

I can't wait for UW and Oregon fans to complain in a couple years when their new conference isn't as great as they thought it'd be.

Who is literally going to tune in for these games versus Indiana... Northwestern, Rutgers, Maryland...? Trash football, and other trash sports.