Morning Distribution for Thursday, August 25, 2022

A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Morning Distribution]( Thursday, August 25, 2022 Your daily briefing from FiveThirtyEight --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [ACC Championship – Clemson v Notre Dame]( [Where Should The Big Ten Expand Next? We Crunched The Numbers.]( By [Nate Silver]( If it were up to me — and I grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, where you could literally hear the roar of the crowd from Spartan Stadium in my backyard on game days — the Big Ten would have stopped expanding after 12 teams. Penn State, added in 1990, and Nebraska, in 2011, were natural-enough fits: big, public [Midwestern]( research universities with good academics and excellent sports. Instead, in 2014, we got … Rutgers, which [was supposed to deliver the New York metro market to the Big Ten](. I’m a huge sports fan who’s been living in New York since 2009, and I have had exactly zero conversations about Rutgers sports. Since joining the Big Ten, the football team’s conference record is 12-58. Having given up on the Big Ten being a Midwestern conference, I’m actually on board with its [newest additions]( UCLA and USC. At least they’re schools with great football traditions – and historical connections to the Big Ten through [frequent Rose Bowl matchups](. [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [Politics Podcast: If The Midterms Were Tomorrow, Republicans Might Be In Trouble]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.