Once again, you respond to a real world possibility with just a stupid insulting piece of snark. The guys above are speculating on a very unknowable future. They don't deserve your 13 y/o sarcasm. They're not "coping" they're engaged in reasonable and respectful discussion of the very strange new world of college professional athletics.
None of us know what the NIL and the realignment of teams into ever larger and top-heavy conferences will bring to every corner of the football table. There is a very realistic scenario in which Iowa, Minnesota, NW, Illinois, and Rutgers could readily be booted from the "Big 32" because the suits have developed a new economic model and institutional configuration that looks better without all or any of those schools. Do you think "league loyalty" would mean anything if the money was better? Such institutional loyalty as might exist would be readily displaced if the TV and streaming services want one or more schools gone.
I don't know how old you are or what you do for a living but if you haven't learned the real Golden Rule of Life, you should probably have a guardian. He who has the gold makes the rules. Just the known realignment possibilities put billions of dollars at play. What do you think would happen if the Big Ten could trade Utah USC, UCLA, Cal and Oregon for Iowa Minnesota, Illinois, Rutgers and Northwestern and makes another billion with a b for the rest of the Big Ten? Our asses would be out the door in a ****ing heartbeat is what would happen because money talks, bullshit walks and in the world of commerce everything but money is bullshit.