"Conservative" expansion or Super Death Star Conference?

This particular rumor has been denied by various parties, including the Big Ten's office and Nebraska's chancellor (who has probably been the most open university president of any of the schools involved over the past few weeks). Still, I'm suffering from confirmation bias with respect to this specific story because it's the main scenario that the collective brain power of this blog's readers has settled upon over the last few posts: Nebraska, Missouri and Rutgers as virtual locks in a minimum 3-school expansion, with the Big Ten only going to 16 if it gets Notre Dame and/or Texas.

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