I'm curious why you like Temple and UMass in the Big East. Geography and their institutional likeness to UCONN? Not sure their basketball is good enough these days to warrant consideration from the Big East.
On the other hand, I could see UMass and UCONN both becoming football-only affiliate members of the American Athletic Conference. Those two alongside current AAC full members Temple and Navy would make for a northeastern "pod" of 4 in a 16-team football conference. (UMass is floundering in football, too, but perhaps the AAC would like to access the New England market and UMass' 30k strong student body.)
I'll add that I love the idea of interchanging football divisions within a conference. Maybe this has been proposed already, and I missed it >>>
each year, conference records from the previous season being used to determine the new divisions.
2023 Big Ten divisions would resemble something like the below... and then they'd do a little schedule finagling in the cross-division matchups to make sure every team gets a key rivalry game if the two teams aren't in the same division using this system. Perhaps it's too complicated or "too close to opening day" to make work, but I like it.
Division A
-Previous year conference champ (UM)
-#4 (PU)
-#5 (Illinois)
-#8 (Maryland)
-#9 (Wisconsin)
-#12 (Indiana)
-#13 (Rutgers)
Division B
-#2 (OSU)
-#3 (PSU)
-#6 (Iowa)
-#7 (Minn)
-#10 (MSU)
-#11 (Nebraska)
-#14 (Northwestern)