In a sport whose champions have been defined by gray areas -- split titles, computer formulas and dubious retroactive claims -- this season could be more hotly contested than any, now that the Big Ten is returning.
The SEC is brutally competitive again; the Big Ten is not, according to odds to win the Power 5 conference championships posted Monday in Las Vegas.
The Atlantic Coast Conference will remain at eight league games, ACC commissioner John Swofford said Monday from the league's spring meetings.
